[Android] on SD card

[dscaini at gmail.com]

it's very interesting! but is there a way for booting with uboot?
thanks
d

ps i haven't tried android recently mainly cause the bigger kernel and
my lazyness in changing uboot.

On 12/29/08, Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
> i have android booting from SD card. It wasn't that hard to make it work.
>
> You will need SD with one ext3 partition. Download and unpack tarball
> from here [1] and boot with Qi [2]. First boot take quite a lot of time.
> Then it will be faster.
>
> You can also compile from sources [3] and put the rootfs together
> yourself. You just have to put together what is in
> out/target/product/freerunner directory and add kernel (either the
> Sean's [4] or andy tracking[5]). I have attached my script which does
> this [6]. Last this is to modify init.rc file so that it mounts SD card,
> you can find it attached or here [7].
>
> While Android boots or later you can attach to it with adb like this:
>
> ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200
> adb kill-server
> adb shell
> adb logcat
>
> I hope this helps us with killing bugs that Android on FR currently has
> (suspend, power off, GSM crashes, ...)
>
> Cheers
>
> Radek
>
> [1] http://activationrecord.net/radekp/openmoko/android/rootfs.tar.gz
> [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi
> [3] http://git.koolu.org/
> [4] http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/
> [5] http://people.openmoko.org/andy/
> [6] http://activationrecord.net/radekp/openmoko/android/mk_rootfs.sh
> [7] http://activationrecord.net/radekp/openmoko/android/init.rc
>