Making debian the default boot
Jose Luis Perez Diez
jluis at escomposlinux.org
Thu Feb 4 09:46:22 CET 2010
A Dijous, 4 de de febrer de 2010 04:21:36, Jonathan Schultz va escriure:
> Hello,
>
> Since I only ever boot my freerunner under Debian I do get pretty sick
> of having to play with the boot loader menu every time I boot. It's
> especially painful when the freerunner has crashed to the boot process
> does a disk check then (usually) reboots a 2nd time, requiring a 2nd
> intervention with the boot load.
>
> So, what I'd like to do is make the default boot (even using the NOR
> boot loader, so the real factory default) start my Debian system. The
> obvious way to do this seems to be to put a second boot loader into the
> flash which then mounts the SD and boots from there. But I have no idea
> how to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I will put Qi in the NAND boot loader.
It's also possible to edit the environment of u-boot NAND from debian with
uboot-envedit and nandwrite as install.sh does (http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-
fso/files.git;a=blob;f=install.sh;hb=2ba63d015b032bc41ced7b02fa3f1232cf7dbcf9)
but bear in mind that the default menu entry could boot with different vales
than in a menu-less boot.
It could also be edited from a PC using a cu,neocon,... when it is in the NAND
boot menu.
The NOR u-boot and environ need of the debug board
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_NOR
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