Flashing error?

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Tue Mar 24 17:03:10 CET 2009


On Tuesday 24 March 2009, xiangfu wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Brigzzy Ory'Hara wrote:
> > I'm not flashing it to the SD card, I'm using the onboard flash.
> > But now that you mention it, in an attempt to troubleshoot an
> > unrelated problem, I did delete both the partitions on the SD card.
> > Could this be causing my problem?
>
> For install the Android to Freerunner
> you must format you sd card to two partition.
> the first one is fat and second is ext.
> Android needs those two partition.

Just to clarify: you can have more than 2 partitions, but Android will use the 
first two, and they need to be vfat on the first, and ext3 on the second. You 
can do what you like with the other partitions.




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