Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hi, | | On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:11:42AM +, Andy Green wrote: |> Or, you can use Qi which expects to boot from partition 1 that should be |> ext2 / 3, and have /boot/uImage.bin there. | | I thought the

Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread Sascha Wessel
Hi, On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:11:42AM +, Andy Green wrote: > Or, you can use Qi which expects to boot from partition 1 that should be > ext2 / 3, and have /boot/uImage.bin there. I thought the debian kernel [1] is too old for Qi, isn't it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.24-20080903.git2e

Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread feywulf
eitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 4:41 PM > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 27.10.2008, 15:17 -0700 schrieb feywulf: > > Hello, > > > > Aside

Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hi Joachim, | | | On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: |> I have heard rumors that uboot will not read very large ext2/3 |> partitions, therefore we create a small one in front.

Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread Sascha Wessel
Hi Joachim, On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I have heard rumors that uboot will not read very large ext2/3 > partitions, therefore we create a small one in front. How large is your > card? I'm running debian on one 8GB ext2 partition since august without probl

Re: [Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 27.10.2008, 15:17 -0700 schrieb feywulf: > Hello, > > Aside from the tradition of 2 partitions due to the old uboot needing > the kernel in a fat partition, Is there a benefit to keeping the > kernel on a separate partition? I have heard rumors that uboot will not read very la

[Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

2008-10-27 Thread feywulf
Hello, Aside from the tradition of 2 partitions due to the old uboot needing the kernel in a fat partition, Is there a benefit to keeping the kernel on a separate partition? Back story: I've been using Qt Extended 4.4.1 successfully on a single ext2 partition. I tried installing Debian on a s