Ah, this seems to have more information. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD#Boot_from_SDHC
It says 'u-boot from 2008-07-23 or later' will boot from SDHC. On Friday 15 August 2008 13:41:19 Daniel Benoy wrote: > As a heads up to everyone, this may not work with an SDHC card. u-boot (to > the best of my knowledge) doesn't support SDHC, even though the linux kernel > does. So when u-boot goes to read the FAT filesystem and load in the kernel, > it fails. > > One thing that might work (Although it may mess you up in terms of kernel > modules and such?) is setting up u-boot to load the kernel from flash (which > you use with your openembedded openmoko distribution) and then pointing the > kernel command line toward your SDHC Debian root partition. > > To do this, you will have to boot up u-boot with the prompt. Press and hold > the power button, and THEN (after, not before) press and hold the AUX > button.. and hold them until you see the the boot prompt. Then connect a USB > cable, and if your PC has the right drivers, you should have access to a > serial port, such as /dev/ttyACM0 which you can connect to, in order to get a > u-boot command line. > > These commands should get you started: > printenv > setenv > saveenv > > Notice the menu_# variables. You'll want to make a hybrid which boots > exactly the same as internal flash (taking the kernel from flash) except that > the root=xyz paramater will be different. > > I suggest that someone make up a wiki article explaining how to do this while > they're figuring it out. (I've already had to do it once myself) > > On Friday 15 August 2008 12:04:03 Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Dear OpenMoko community, > > > > the FSO packaging team of the Debian project[1] is happy to announce > > that we have started to provide installation procedures and packages > > required to have your FreeRunner[2] run Debian-powered. > > > > This means that you can use your favorite tools such as apt-get and the > > other >20.000 packages on your FreeRunner, including the > > freesmartphone.org[3] software stack. You can also develop applications > > for your FreeRunner the “Debian way”. > > > > To install Debian onto your MicroSD card, alongside your current Image > > on the internal Flash, see the instructions at > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner > > These will provide you with a minimal Debian installation plus > > everything required to use zhone. From there on, you are free to modify > > your system as you wish – with the full power and flexibility of the > > Debian system. > > > > Note that Debian does not try provide yet another software stack (or > > “Distribution” in the OpenMoko slang) next to 2007.2, 2008.8 or FSO, but > > rather an alternative base, comparable to OpenEmbedded[3]. We are > > looking forward to also support other stacks such as the Stable Hybrid > > Release[4], once they are ready for that. > > > > All this is still very new and was created during at the DebConf 8 in > > Mar de Plata since last week. This means that there are still bugs and > > other things to improve. You are invited to join the development by > > subscribing to the smartphone-standards[5] mailing list that the Debian > > team shares with the FSO team. There is also a wiki page[6] with more > > information on the pkg-fso team, including a TODO section. > > > > I’d like to thank Jon “maddog” Hall from Koolu[7] for lending me an > > additional device for installation tests, and all the other testers at > > DebConf and elsewhere that helped us to remove at least some of the > > bugs. But don’t worry – I’m sure there are some bugs left for you! > > > > Please send replies and further discussion to the > > smartphone-standards[5] mailing list, but note that you have to > > subscribe to that list first. > > > > Enjoy! > > Joachim Breitner > > on behalf of the pkg-fso team: > > Philipp Kern > > Jan Lübbe > > Luca Capello > > > > > > [1] http://www.debian.org > > [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner > > [3] http://wiki.openembedded.net/ > > [4] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Stable_Hybrid_Release > > [5] > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-standards > > [6] http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-fso > > [7] http://www.koolu.com/ > > > > > > > -- Daniel Benoy http://daniel.benoy.name
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