-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hi, | | I would like to try switching to Qi. | | - There is no up-to-date release binary ? Latest I found is 18/12/08 | on http://people.openmoko.org/andy/ | | And since even the wiki page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi mentions | features available after 18/01/09, I do not know if other infos in the | wiki apply to this older Qi version.
That version is pretty much complete. | - Qi tries the 3 first primary partitions, but does not recognize FAT. | So if my first partition is FAT, it will try to boot on 2nd 3rd and | 4th, or only 2-3 ? | Anyway in my case my 4th partition is an extended one.... It'll try 1, 2 and 3 only. | - is it possible to boot on an non-primary partition ? No it only looks at 1, 2 and 3. | At least leaving my kernel on a primary partition but rootfs on the | extended partition : using boot parameter root=/dev/mmcblk0p5 ? ( as | mentioned here http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi#.2Fboot-Partition ) That's not "the Qi way"... it wants to mount the filesystem where it got the kernel from as the rootfs. That eliminates all the futzing around with root= and difficulties updating kernel and modules in a rootfs where just the kernel is disconnected from the rootfs. | - via Aux button to swap the booting partition, can I force NAND boot | ? (with the version I tried, I did not manage to do this) If it doesn't find a kernel it likes from SD Card, it will fall back to trying to boot one from NAND anyway. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmC6OwACgkQOjLpvpq7dMoU/QCfRCZw74h0Zb4BCXskzHWl/xl8 l2AAnijpj7sHdlu3N7Dxmj9+wJAuohjg =fOwt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
