Hi Brian, --- On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If someone has Qtopia (or any other distro, for that matter) booting | from microSD, I'd appreciate very step-by-step instructions \--
Some quick notes I had made: 1. Download qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-flash-07221045.tgz from: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Latest_Images#Qtopia_image_from_qtopia.net It extracts to: qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-flash-07221045.jffs2 uImage_2008_07_16_gta02_73eeb0333fc771cb696ff9bf17c517c741434b59.bin 2. Prepare SD card (from USB 4-in-1 card reader): fdisk /dev/sdb First partition is 8M. Use remaining disk space for second partition. 3. Create vfat on /dev/sdb1 mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 Rename the uImage kernel to uImage.bin and copy it to the first partition. 4. Create ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb2 mke2fs /dev/sdb2 5. Prepare the .tar.gz from .jffs2: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Userspace_root_image#Mounting_the_JFFS2_image_on_a_loop_back_device_.28Kernel_Memory_MTD_Emulation.29 modprobe mtdcore modprobe jffs2 modprobe mtdram total_size=59024 /* default is 4 MByte - set to max. available size */ modprobe mtdchar modprobe mtdblock Check "cat /proc/mtd": # dev: size erasesize name # mtd0: 039a4000 00020000 "mtdram test device" Use "mtdram" device file (mtd0, in the above): sudo dd if=<rootfs.jffs2> of=/dev/mtd0 mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 /mnt sudo tar czf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz -C /mnt . 6. Install root filesystem on the Neo device: scp qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/mmcblk0p2/ cd /media/mmcblk0p2 tar xzf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz rm qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz rm -f /media/mmcblk0p2/boot/* 7. Press AUX button, choose boot from SD card (VFAT+ext2) and boot into Qtopia :) SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
