Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 14:43:03 CEST 2009


On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush at debian.org>wrote:

> > What
> > you _can_ do is construct a mini Linux environment that provides a boot
> > menu / usb-dfu, and is booted by Qi in the normal way.  This would place
> > those tools in regular Linux userspace, i.e. much more accessible to
> > regular non kernel / bootloader hackers.  This could be the default or
> > secondary boot option - provide a boot menu and then chainload the
> > desired final Linux environment.
>
> Have anybody done this, at least in proof-of-concept form?
>
> If yes, any links?
>

Search kexecboot

http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=groups/kexecboot/kexecboot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cfgfiles

I'm using it on my old Sharp Zaurus and it works great, still actively
developed (would be nice to have some hacker testing, improving support for
freerunner).

I liked u-boot menu and this is even better as kernel for this and then
whole system can be quite the same.
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