Re: Re: [Bootldr] Bootloader vfat issues (long post)

Hi

I installed intimate against my 5550 running familiar 7.2, it is on a 256M
CF flash card.

Familar is running OK (sort of) and I followed the intimate installation
instructions but it still boots as familiar.

Is there a trick to getting the pivot_root to swap over to Intimate, it
doesn't seem to work for me.

Also will the 5550 work?

thanks

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Moser" <helensfav@yahoo.com>
To: "Philip Blundell" <pb@nexus.co.uk>
Cc: <intimate@handhelds.org>; <bootldr@handhelds.org>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: [Intimate] Re: [Bootldr] Bootloader vfat issues (long post)

> --- Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> > LAB, which will eventually replace the OHH
> > bootloader, is based on the
> > Linux kernel and could easily boot from ext2.
>
> That is excellent news. I have been able to install
> Debian to a card using the pivot-root method, and it
> seems like the booting it is really the only major
> obstacle left.
>
> > Adding ext2 support to the OHH codebase would be
> > possible, but the flash
> > boot sector is already very close to full
>
> Interesting. So any further development along that
> line would require a fork in the bootloader
> development, one for familiar, and another for
> intimate. (I imagine one could make room by removing
> jffs2 and vfat support, since neither is strictly
> necessary if you're just booting an ext2 filesystem
> with WinCE still in the flash.)
>
> However, given what you just said about LAB, I think
> that would be a short-term (and short-lived) solution.
>
> Thanks
> B
>
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Received on Mon Dec 29 21:06:13 2003