Moving my 2007.2 to SD to try 2008.8 with fallback solution : SUCCESS

[Olivier Berger]

Olivier Berger <oberger at ouvaton.org> writes:

> Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> writes:
>
>>> I thought of another way to proceed in between, and started to
>>> document it here :
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Moving_current_system_from_flash_to_SD
>>
>>
>> Great work!  I was going to do something similar to this myself this  
>> weekend but I'll wait to hear of your results before I do! :)
>>
>
> One issue I've found is that cp -a didn't relyably copy from MTD/flash
> to SD 5 or 6 files.
>
> After diff -r on dirs I found out which and md5sumed them...
>
> That's rather frightening, I think :(
>
> Anyway, I copied them over again, and am now trying to figure out if I
> can boot OK with right kernel and if it goes well.
>
> Will report in case of success.

Once the copying issues are sorted out, it seems to work.

So, as far as I can see, the procedure is a success :-)

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

P.S.: now I can dual boot : placing calls from SD with OM 2007.2 or
receiving calls from flash with 2008.8 : both have bugs, but oposite
ones ;-(
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