Machster | # 101 | 2008-01-28, 00:07 | Report

Thanks for the confirmation. I tried that too now. I had to make a slight adjustment to the kernel version in the insmod code as OS2008 apparently has 2.6.21 instead of 2.6.18. But still no success. Do I now conclude that both of my cards are not compatible? I don't know what to think. I will continue to watch here for an answer.

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bunanson | # 102 | 2008-02-02, 16:28 | Report

this maybe your fix, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...162#post137162. Kind to tell us what brand of the SD card you are using?

TIA,

bun

locutus | # 103 | 2008-02-03, 12:21 | Report

I want to buy a new SDHC card for booting OS2008 from it.
What do you think is the card with the best performace? I think about transfer speed that the OS runs very fast.
The capacity is really not important as long as it is 4 or 8 or 16 GB.
And would the OS be faster or slower with this card compared to the build-in memory?

(didn't know if i should post in the sdhc thread or here, but it's related to OS-booting so...)
Thanks

bunanson | # 104 | 2008-02-04, 08:53 | Report

Just for you, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=16067,

bun

locutus | # 105 | 2008-02-04, 21:46 | Report

Oh, thank you.

bunanson | # 106 | 2008-02-08, 06:21 | Report

@Fanoush: On N800, how can I edit/add a pointer to bootmenu to have options boot from 1) internal flash,
2) internal SD (mmcblk0)
3) external SD (mmcblk1)

I already cloned OS on 2 SD cards, and they have different contents, I would like to have options to choose booting, rather than physically swap them. Would edit the bootmenu.conf work? If so, please spoon feed with instructions, thanks.

I want to do the same to N810, are they,

1) internal flash, 256 MB
2) internal card, 2G (mmcblk0)
3) external card, SD (mmcblk1)

I made these up. I am totally confused with this internal/external things. They are like playing rudby


I did read up thread #50s, not quite sure 'how to approach it though, in particular to avoid re-flash if possible as i have accumulated quite some progs by now and dont quite trust 'restore'.



TIA,

bun

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penguinbait | # 107 | 2008-02-19, 00:52 | Report

NOKIA:~ ROOT#df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk1p2 2048 1916 132 94% /mnt/initfs
none 512 104 408 20% /mnt/initfs/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p2 3748988 1359760 2198788 38% /
none 512 104 408 20% /tmp
none 1024 32 992 3% /dev
tmpfs 1024 0 1024 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 128220 121360 6860 95% /media/mmc2
/dev/mmcblk1p1 122952 122542 410 100% /media/mmc1


Fanoush is this a bug? I am booting N810 off both mmc1 and mmc2. I noticed it when trying to mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 to access some files.

Any Ideas?

vormund | # 108 | 2008-02-19, 02:11 | Report

I had a problem with the internal and external cards switching labels when I formatted to get KDE working on my N810. The internal card would remain named mmcblk0 if there was no external card in the slot, but once the external card was in they would switch, I noticed it when I couldnt boot from mmcblk0 when I had the external card in. I'm not sure what causes it, just that it happens for some reason.

fanoush | # 109 | 2008-02-19, 08:03 | Report

Yes, was discussed here too, see also
http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2747

fanoush | # 110 | 2008-02-19, 08:34 | Report

Yes.
There is a README in initfs_flasher folder and example bootmenu.conf.*.example files.


With N810 beware of bug
http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2747 and see workaround here http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...657#post124657

Sadly I still had no time to update flasher with similar workaround. I'd like to fix it in kernel and have the workaround working with both fixed and broken kernel.

you can re-run bootmenu installation many times (with reboots between), rootfs is not touched, when you screw up initfs and system does not boot, you can reflash just initfs part via linux flasher