DANGER, koolu's Qi is incompatible with other systems (was: Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner)

[Jim Ancona]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Niels Heyvaert <nielsheyvaert at hotmail.com> writes:
> ...
>> It installs the Qi bootloader, reboots, the kernel, reboots, then
>> installs the system image.
>
> I want to warn everybody that the Qi version provided by Koolu is some
> questionable fork to change partition layout or so i was told. The
> result is that it becomes incompatible with all other distros, so
> beware.
>
> This should really be added to some android docs, imho.

Thanks for the report! I've added this to track the issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/issues/detail?id=11

I think this is due to Android expecting separate rootfs and user data
partitions, but I'm not sure yet.

Jim