Qtopia

Thomas B. tommy.b at gmx.net
Wed Jul 23 15:04:08 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:39:14AM +0200, Peter Rasmussen wrote:
> What doesn't work is:
> 
> 1.Boot with different kernel images
> 2.Boot into multiple images on the flashcard
> 
> I have before asked for info to:
> 
> 1.Boot with kernel A into the NAND rootfs
> 2.Boot with kernel A into flash image in partition A (eg.: 
> /media/card/imageA)
> 3.Boot with kernel B into flash image in partition B (eg.: 
> /media/card/imageB)
> 4. Boot with kernel B into flash image in partition A (eg.: 
> /media/card/imageA)
> 5. Boot with kernel A into flash image in partition B (eg.: 
> /media/card/imageB)
> 6. etc.
> 
> Is it hard or does it have a very low priority?
> For people doing testing it is important to be able to change only one 
> part at the time.
> 
> Still only having a GTA01, so please make any basic progress work there, 
> too.

What about adding menu entries to the U-Boot environment for each of
those options? There you can specify from where to load kernel and
rootfs. See here for examples:

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD#Add_uboot_boot_entry

HTH,
Thomas





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