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Nice guide, few comments below
maybe console-tools does it for you but when running it directly as described you need to run cal-tool to see the menu
Code:$ sudo gainroot # chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask
otherwise the default is to wait briefly for menu key press and then boot directly with no menu. best is probably to set the root device to ask:yourpreferredmenuitemid so it shows the menu but boots your preferred item automatically after countdown
it is OK to ignore dialogs that pop up, the OS tries to automount your card when it is not formatted yet. However you should not ignore i/o errors when cloning, some people had issues with cards giving errors when writing data. Full format with Panasonic SD formatter sometimes helped. After cloning or when you suspect data corruption it is good idea to run dmesg command and check kernel log for mmc device i/o error messages. When something is wrong there are tons of them for every data block system failed to read or write.
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You have to create an entry in /etc/fstab for swap if you don't use a .swap file on the internal card. (Note that if you do, you can resize it much larger just by using dd to create a big file and mkswap .swap).
For /etc/fstab, I have the line:
/dev/mmcblk0p3 none swap swap priority=-1 0 0
and it "just works".
And a thankyou to Fanoush for adding the date/changelog entry to the webpage.
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I also have an N810 WiMAX and was trying to get bootloader working. @tomstratton, I have a few questions. You choose not to remove the extra utilities in the initfs, and also installed dropbear and utelnetd. What was the size of your initfs partition? Mine is 4M, and the generated initfs file is close to 6M and won't fit in. I had to unselect telnet and ssh while creating the initfs file.
I also got bootmenu to work the first time. Thanks fanoush for updating it!
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