QI boot order

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Wed Sep 23 15:06:09 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Jan Henkins wrote:
> Hallo Christ,
>
> On Wed, September 23, 2009 13:31, Christ van Willegen wrote:
> > What did the trick for me, although it's not in the Wiki, is this:
> >
> > - Press and hold AUX
> > - Press power
> > - Let go of AUX
> > - Let go of power
> >
> > That should skip 1 partition on SD, hope that's enough for you...
> >
> > Note that this key order is not as it should be! So no guarantees.
> >
> > Pressing the AUX in the brief time that the LED flashes RED _should_
> > do it, but I've never reliably been able to do that.
>
> Thanks, this is one step closer, but still not ideal. I was sort of hoping
> that one could control QI with some form of configuration method, kinda
> like grub or lilo. I'll play a bit more.

There's no one configuration file to use, but some level of control is 
available using files in /boot on each partition, as described in the wiki. It 
would be quite easy to write a script or gui to manipulate these, but so far 
nobody has afaik. 




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