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

Petr Vanek vanous at penguin.cz
Mon Sep 21 14:10:40 CEST 2009


>>> 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.

i have tried this before by using kexec, please search the devel
archives. as i am not a coder, i needed to use X that made it huge and
quite slow for this purpose, if you can make it working directly with fb
it would be awesome :)

cheers

Petr







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