set next boot

Petr Vanek vanous at penguin.cz
Sun Sep 28 19:45:07 CEST 2008


On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:45:30 -0400
"Tyler Oderkirk"
<tyl.eroderkirk at gmail.com> (TO) wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Petr Vanek
><vanous at penguin.cz> wrote:
>> [...] is there any
>> command that would set priority for next boot?
>
>hi petr,
>
>i don't see a recipe what you've asked but our wiki has some good
>details on u-boot:
>http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Bootloader_environment
>
>also see these two threads on the topic:
>http://markmail.org/message/d2abi2nm5vms3unh and
>http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-September/029845.html
>
>if all else fails you could construct a crude hack which overwrites
>the appropriate portion of nand with one of two known u-boot_env
>images: 1) "boot operating system foo by default" or 2) "boot
>operating system bar by default"
>
>there will be hassles, of course:
>- grep http://downloads.openmoko.org/sources/cvs/uboot/u-boot/CHANGELOG
>for "add env-variable"
>- see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Bricked#Useful_information
>- beware a moving target :/ see
>http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NAND_bad_blocks#Environment
>
>good luck!
>
>-tyler
>
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thank you, i will look at it

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