Android open sourced

Alastair Johnson alastair at truebox.co.uk
Wed Nov 5 11:35:59 CET 2008


Pander wrote:
> On Wed, November 5, 2008 08:17, Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu) wrote:
>> abatrour wrote:
>>> OMG it works!
>>> I was having the same problem with a black screen after the white flash.
>>> I tried formatting the sd card as ext3 and it didn't work. But it worked
>>> after i made 2 partitions, both ext3.
>>>
>>> i am using the latest uboot on my gta2v5
>> As I tried-
>>
>> * Must have a SD card inside the FR during Android boot, or it will just
>> keep black (with backlight on).
>>
>> * The SD card format also required 2 partitions (first primary partition
>> vfat/ext3 seems both work, second primary using ext3).
>>
>> My current Android setting is using the default 512 MB SD card comes
>> with FreeRunner, 8MB for vfat, rest is using ext3.
> 
> Advice in OM community is to use ext2 on SD cards. Can Android cope with
> this? Also, can it cope with only one partition?

The /init.rc in the android image calls:
	mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data nosuid nodev
So you will need ext3 on that partition, or you will need to edit that 
line in init.rc.

The advice to use ext2 is based on deep seated but outdated fears about 
the limited write life of flash devices. I say this having used ext3 for 
rootfs on CF cards for several years with no ill effects.

> Can it Android be more flexible regarding this and print messages when one
> of the (implicit) requirements is not being met?
> 
>> Tony Tu
>>
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