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

[Marc Andre Tanner]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:11:55PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
> Michele Brocco <ssj2micvm at gmail.com> writes:
> > On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD
> >> card?
> >> If so, how?
> >
> ...
> > I have one distro on flash and one on SD Card. When i try to start the
> > one on the flash i need quite a few tries until I manage to press the
> > aux button in the correct instant, such that the correct distro is
> > loaded. 70% of the time the one on the first partition on the SD Card
> > is loaded. 
> 
> So what do you suggest?

A tiny root filesystem which presents some kind of menu and then uses
kexec to start the new kernel. I have recently started to work (well 
if time permits) on this kind of thing.

Marc 

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