Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 10:37:06 CEST 2009


Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz> writes:
>> So what do you suggest?
>
> My suggestion, please ignore it if you dont like it :)
>
> Pressing any key brings Qi in interactive mode. It can work the same way
> as uboot. AUX switches between partitions, POWER boots selected one.
> Selected partition can be indicated with AUX led blinking. Blinking
> could work like 2second OFF followed by fast blinks for selected
> partition number.

Hm, interesting idea. I'll think about it.

> I know it's quite a big change, but i dont think that current partition
> switching is usable.

Well, i have one partition on SD and i can boot from nand when i want,
usually one-two tries is enough.

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