Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

[Paul Fertser]

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <ccc94453 at vip.cybercity.dk> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:36:43AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
>> Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or
>> > it will fade away
>> 
>> I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot.
>
>    What does it matter if you understand anybody elses desire to multi-boot
> or not? 

Probably i will want to multiboot myself so much that i'll finally
prepare a minimal initramfs to allow that.

And in fact if anybody of those talking about bootmenu, multiboot and
such really needed it he would have done it himself long time ago. I
bet trying and tweaking all distros including Qtopia, Qtmoko, Android,
H:1 etc etc took them 10x time required to build a minimal
bootmenu.

> But let me give you a few uses anyway:
> 1) A backup installation in case you break your normal one.

Hm, i have my "normal" one on uSD and in case i screw something up i
just boot pre-installed 2007 from NAND by pressing AUX button at the
right time (and yes, i can't manage it with 100% success rate but
taking out the battery and trying again is not a big deal).

> 2) Regression testing. I have an unmodified andy-tracking kernel installed
>    in addition to the one I'm hacking on and normally use. So if something
>    is broken I can check if it was broken before I started hacking too. And
>    btw, Qi doesn't let me select between multiple kernels for the same
>    rootfs, does it?

Well, i just copy every kernel i need to /boot and then make
uImage-GTA02 symlink point to the one i want to test.

>> And btw the recent
>> poll proved that most users use Qi IIRC. A clear evidence it's already
>> usable for them.
>
>    There are more iPhone users than Freerunner users. What was your point
> again?

Someone said that Qi is unusable by "normal" users. I wanted to prove
it wrong.

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