Getting rid of Android

Vasili Sviridov vsviridov at exceede.com
Fri Dec 26 00:57:33 CET 2008


Actually I remember reflashing NAND uBoot at some point in time when I 
was installing Android, so I might restore that first...

V.

Flyin_bbb8 wrote:
> how about the nor uboot? same list?
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:41 PM, <vsviridov at exceede.com 
> <mailto:vsviridov at exceede.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, Android is flashed into the unit. SD Card contains 2
>     partitions as
>     per Android requirements.
>
>     The partitions i mention are showing up in dfu-util -l, which
>     lists all
>     the alternates available. (Normally "uboot", "kernel", "rootfs",
>     "bootsplash", etc). But they all appear as UNKNOWN in the list. I
>     cannot
>     flash it using dfu-util even w/o the SD card present.
>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Orlando-13 wrote:
>     >>
>     >> I Hate to tell you this, but you can try to format your sd card
>     (just to
>     >> fat32 or ext3) in another Linux box. Then, install another
>     Linux distro
>     >> in
>     >> your openmoko...
>     >>
>     >> The problem as I see it is that your sd card has a lot of
>     partitions
>     >> right
>     >> ?
>     >>
>     >> -Orlando.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     > Probably not actually, android (AFAICT) must be installed on the
>     internal
>     > flash, not the SD, so content of the SD card is pretty irrelevant.
>     >
>     > I don't think I've ever tried to go back from android to another
>     distro on
>     > my FR, so I can't help with the original question either.
>     >
>     > /I'm helping!
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