Thread: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
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Fabry is offline Fabry
2012-01-16 , 23:02
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#47
Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Or, placing kernel on *very*small-ish dedicated ext2 partition on SD card would allow it to work, and won't cause any problems with ext4 /home/? As I understand it, u-boot just need supported filesystem to read kernel image from it, and later, it doesn't care about partition types, if kernel support them already?
U-Boot needs only to load kernels, initrd-files and script-files (i.e. bootmenu.scr) from a FAT/EXT2 (or EXT3) partition.

The Pali's binary as default search on first eMMC partition, but it is easy to change behavior on sources and then recompile a binary which searches on other sources
Last edited by Fabry; 2012-01-16 at 23:05.
 

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