Re: dual kernel configuration

On Sep 1, 21:13, Manolis Stamatogiannakis wrote:
> I installed familiar v0.4 on my ipaq, creating
> 2 kernel partitions of 768K each (/dev/mtdblock2, /dev/mtdblock4)
> and one 14M root partition (/dev/mtdblock3).
> I did this because I'd like to have 2 different kernels
> and choose which one to boot every time.
>
> Does anybody know how to tell the bootloader to boot the kernel
> from a specific partition and not from the 3d partition (/dev/mtdblock2) ?

In the bootloader type:
set autoboot_kernel_part <partition name>

If you do a "params show" you will see the current value
(should be "kernel"). If you want to change the default, do a
params save after the set.

  -- Mike.

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