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

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 12:29:55 CEST 2009


Marc Andre Tanner <openmoko at brain-dump.org> writes:
> 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.

Feel free to ping me on irc for suggestions how to use external
initramfs with Qi.

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