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	qwerty12	2008-08-21 , 17:11
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Originally Posted by qole

I notice that older versions of fanoush's bootmenu had a USB HD menu choice. Can someone post the details for that menu item here? fanoush? qwerty12?

This is what I have:
Code:
USB_HDD="sda"
MENU_5_NAME="External USB HDD"
MENU_5_ID="usbsda"
MENU_5_DEVICE="sda2"
MENU_5_MODULES="mbcache ext3"
MENU_5_FSTYPE="ext3"
MENU_5_FSOPTIONS="noatime"
[ -d "/sys/block/${USB_HDD}/${MENU_5_DEVICE}" ] || MENU_5_NAME="(${MENU_5_NAME}) N/A"
Perhaps there's something that has to be done to put the N800 into host mode (I do have the OTG dongle)?

It's still in the latest bootmenu, just only in bootmenu.sh and not bootmenu.conf.example.n8x0 (something like that) and bootmenu.conf, as you know, "overwrites" options in bootmenu.conf if it is present.

Anyway, this is the entries I took from bootmenu.sh:

MENU_4_NAME="USB hard drive"
MENU_4_ID="usb"

usb is a "special" identifer and is identifed in linuxrc as follows:

usb)
root_dev=sda1
root_dev_name="USB hard drive"
root_dev_set=1
root_fstype=""
root_fsoptions=""
;;

Fanoush has a command for setting the usb mode with a menu entry:

MENU_4_USBMODE=host

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