Re: Kernel and Dual booting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Mikael Berthe wrote: | | Or is there a way to prevent opkg from flashing the kernel? It would be | nice to upgrade /uImage.bin instead! | | I don't know of a way to do this at the moment, but it would be a nice | enhancement. Perhaps the flashing script could check to see which device | was mounted as the root filesystem, and only proceed with the flashing | if it was a NAND partition (/dev/mtdblock?). We started discussing this on devel list, I learned from Graeme that he always stores the updated kernel in /boot/uImage.bin (and currently blows the kernel partition too). If you symlink /uImage.bin to point to /boot/uImage.bin maybe it will square that part of the circle. He did say he prefers the packaging to only affect one filesystem, so if we do not blow the kernel partition at all if / is *mmcblk* then it will be consistent. - -Andy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkif7RsACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqwbQCeM5cmC9JatCKxk0ndW3N473l7 rP8AnR5FLJQ/sdD/hs0Vlp8jB2vs2Z77 =nB3P -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Kernel and Dual booting
To prevent opkg from upgrading the kernel try: opkg flag hold kernel-2.6.24 opkg flag hold kernel-image-2.6.24 Altho i think you only need to block the kernel-image-2.6.24 After getting a neo1973 kernel and a bad kernel that wouldnt boot from opkg, i do all my kernel upgrades with the dfu-util. Mikael Berthe wrote: * Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-10 18:16 +0200]: Now I need to test if I can boot it on the SD. If it succeeds, I will then be able to flash OM 2008.8, and have switched between flash and SD. Dual booting is cool ;) Yes it is :) (Actually I'm running 2007 from flash and 2008.8 from SD, unlike you...) Yet I'm wondering if it isn't dangerous to do an opkg upgrade from the SD. Wouldn't that update the FR's kernel? If it does, then it could break booting from flash as the modules won't match anymore. Or is there a way to prevent opkg from flashing the kernel? It would be nice to upgrade /uImage.bin instead! -- MiKael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Moving-my-2007.2-to-SD-to-try-2008.8-with-fallback-solution-tp682485p685836.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Kernel and Dual booting
* DooD [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-11 14:38 +0200]: To prevent opkg from upgrading the kernel try: opkg flag hold kernel-2.6.24 opkg flag hold kernel-image-2.6.24 I can do that, but I'd like to have the latest fixes anyway (esp. teh SD corruption fix as soon as there's one!). Altho i think you only need to block the kernel-image-2.6.24 After getting a neo1973 kernel and a bad kernel that wouldnt boot from opkg, i do all my kernel upgrades with the dfu-util. Well, it's on the SD card in my case -- and btw using dfu-util isn't recommended now because you have to keep the modules in sync :) -- MiKael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Kernel and Dual booting
* Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-10 18:16 +0200]: Now I need to test if I can boot it on the SD. If it succeeds, I will then be able to flash OM 2008.8, and have switched between flash and SD. Dual booting is cool ;) Yes it is :) (Actually I'm running 2007 from flash and 2008.8 from SD, unlike you...) Yet I'm wondering if it isn't dangerous to do an opkg upgrade from the SD. Wouldn't that update the FR's kernel? If it does, then it could break booting from flash as the modules won't match anymore. Or is there a way to prevent opkg from flashing the kernel? It would be nice to upgrade /uImage.bin instead! -- MiKael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Kernel and Dual booting
Mikael Berthe wrote: Or is there a way to prevent opkg from flashing the kernel? It would be nice to upgrade /uImage.bin instead! I don't know of a way to do this at the moment, but it would be a nice enhancement. Perhaps the flashing script could check to see which device was mounted as the root filesystem, and only proceed with the flashing if it was a NAND partition (/dev/mtdblock?). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
