Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

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Wed Sep 23 11:46:51 CEST 2009


Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote (ao):
>    On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Al Johnson
>    <[1]openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>      I believe it's an arbitrary limit based on the assumption that with no
>      gui it
>      would be hard to select the intended partition. Given the touble people
>      have
>      with only 3 partitions it seems well founded.
> 
>    OK, so when Qi is improved so that partition selection is actually
>    usable, this artificial limitation will go away.

One should create an initramfs which shows a boot menu of some kind.
This is not something qi should provide.

	Sander

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