Thread: How to set N800 to boot from first parition?
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nhanquy is offline nhanquy
2008-08-16 , 19:27
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Originally Posted by rash.m2k View Post
Can I just restore from my backup even though it was made from the internal memory? it's about 1.5mb and has to download apps of net to install.

BTW I also have a little mouse cursor on my N800, pretty cool!!
What do you mean? Do you want to backup the internal SD card to the external card?

If that was the case; here is how you do it (the example for n800)

Assume you have formatted partitions on the external SD.

1. boot from flash, not from mmc1 or mmc2.

2. insmod so the n800 can see ext2:

insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/mbcache.ko
insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ext2.ko

( for ext3 : ext3.ko jbd.ko )

3. mount the partitions:

mount /dev/mmcblk0px /floppy
mount /dev/mmcblk1py /opt

x: in your case maybe 1 the partition number in source sd

4. tar it! /floppy is the source /opt is target

tar cf - -C /floppy . | tar xvf - -C /opt

5. umount them

umount /opt
umount /floppy

6. Done! You have cloned the internal to the external