There is a special boot mode known as recovery boot. which is implemented by default in android. "mydroid/bootable/recovery" is the folder where you will see the recovery related gui and you have some documentation in the code. as of now most of them support entering into this mode using android UI. there are hard methods to enter into recovery using key combination while booting. The specifics remain with the hardware you are using.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Ronnyek <wwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > From what I have seen ( I could be wrong about thiss..) it would seem > that the typical os update functionality is something that is provided > by a boot loader. (drop an os upgrade on root of sd card, reboot into > special mode, and perform the upgrade). > > Are companies building their own bootloaders, or are there existing > linux bootloaders that would let me easily mount sdcard, extract > contents of a archive to different locations etc? > > I appreciate any feedback on the subject... just trying to streamline > this for the future. > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do" -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
