DANGER, koolu's Qi is incompatible with other systems (was: Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner)

George Brooke solar.george at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 21 12:44:11 CEST 2009


On Monday 21 September 2009 11:25:42 Paul Fertser wrote:
> Niels Heyvaert <nielsheyvaert at hotmail.com> writes:
> ...
>
> > It installs the Qi bootloader, reboots, the kernel, reboots, then
> > installs the system image.
>
> I want to warn everybody that the Qi version provided by Koolu is some
> questionable fork to change partition layout or so i was told. The
> result is that it becomes incompatible with all other distros, so
> beware.
>
> This should really be added to some android docs, imho.
Will simply reflashing an ordiary Qi allow you to boot other distros afterwards or does the Koolu 
version change other stuff?

solar.george
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