Hi, Al Johnson schrieb: > On Saturday 24 October 2009, Marc Bantle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Aditya Gandhi schrieb: >> >>> Hi guys, I'm expecting my Free Runner in a day or two.... >>> I wish to know as to how many distributions can I Run side by side , >>> >> I think the maximum is seven without extra efforts. >> A possible setup could look like this: >> >> Device >> Number Media /dev Partition Type Content >> 31, 6 NAND mtdblock6 Dist1 >> 179, 0 SD-Card mmcblk0 (raw device) >> 179, 1 SD-Card mmcblk0p1 primary partition Dist2 >> 179, 2 SD-Card mmcblk0p2 primary partition Dist3 >> 179, 3 SD-Card mmcblk0p3 primary partition Dist4 >> 179, 4 SD-Card mmcblk0p4 extended partition logical partitions >> 179, 5 SD-Card mmcblk0p5 logical partition Dist5 >> 179, 6 SD-Card mmcblk0p6 logical partition Dist6 >> 179, 7 SD-Card mmcblk0p7 logical partition Dist7 >> >> Off course you can choose a different >> primary/logical ratio. >> > > This is correct for uboot, though there are a few possible complications: > * Android will want to use 2 partitions, by default the first two, plus the > NAND. Then again it will (by default) install a forked Qi too, which doesn't > multiboot well anyway. >
I've never tried Android. Lucky me ;-) Anyway thanks for adding this. > * Certain ext3 formatting options prevent uboot reading the partition, but I > haven't checked which ones. My gentoo box makes unreadable ones by default, > but fedora makes readable ones. > Never ran into this either - using Debian. >>> Is there a guide to multiple OS on freerunner? >>> >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD >> >> I just had a look. A lot of the information >> is just wrong or at least outdated. I now >> understand why most users install qi ;-) >> >> Various efforts have been made to supply a >> bootmenu for qi (e.g. by using kexec). >> I don't know whether they where successful. >> >> I still stay with u-boot for my multi dist >> setup, cause it has a boot menu. It's only >> constraint is that the kernel need's to be >> within the first 2G of the SD-Card (I just >> prepared a special subdirectory on the first >> partition). Booting kernels >2M need special >> boot parameters, but has been reported to >> work on this list. >> > > This is itself wrong, as I'm booting kernels from beyond the first 2G, and > probably beyond 4G. > Good to know. Last time I tried I didn't succeed. Cheers, Marc
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