- -------- ["Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <h...@computer.org> writes:]
> Hi Andy, > as long as you can start the minifs you should be able to recover directly. > If you can't start the recovery menu, either the kernel or the minifs is > broken. Yes, happily I can hold down F3 and get into the recovery menu. > Generally, it *should* be possible to boot the 2.6 kernel/Debian Lenny rootfs > from a SD card. And then cp files to /dev/mtd1 and /dev/mtd3. I would be fine to manually boot a full 2.6 and just run off an SD card. I didn't realize that was possible--can you give me a pointer to the procedure and the bits to put on an SD card? > But I have not yet tried. If I can recover the base laptop to their moldy old GUI environment, but have the option to boot over to 2.6 on the SD card, I'd almost rather just leave the native netbook's flash alone. > Another idea is to access the U-Boot-Console. There's apparently a whole level of boot/OS flexibility which I didn't realize existed. If you have a pointer, I should go off and update my knowledge. Thanks much! Andy _______________________________________________ Mipsbook-devel mailing list Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
