Re: [GTA-04] multiboot with QtMoko/SHR

2012-11-16 Thread arne anka
the SHR install guide already conforms with the new uboot setup metioned by Nikolaus. You can just partition you SD card with up to 4 ext partitions and put SHR on any of them. BUT your kernel needs to take the 'rootfs' bootarg from the bootloader for this to work. There are some kernels wich hav

Re: [GTA-04] multiboot with QtMoko/SHR

2012-11-14 Thread Martin Jansa
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:47:09PM +0100, Lukas Märdian wrote: > Hi, > > the SHR install guide already conforms with the new uboot setup metioned > by Nikolaus. > > You can just partition you SD card with up to 4 ext partitions and put > SHR on any of them. BUT your kernel needs to take the 'root

Re: [GTA-04] multiboot with QtMoko/SHR

2012-11-13 Thread Lukas Märdian
Hi, the SHR install guide already conforms with the new uboot setup metioned by Nikolaus. You can just partition you SD card with up to 4 ext partitions and put SHR on any of them. BUT your kernel needs to take the 'rootfs' bootarg from the bootloader for this to work. There are some kernels wich

Re: [GTA-04] multiboot with QtMoko/SHR

2012-11-13 Thread A.dre
Thanks for your quick response. I will try an entirely different partitioning scheme (omitting the FAT32 on p1). Still puzzled as why my SHR on p4 never booted. As for 'unofficial beagle board pages', I was redirected there by [7]: "The SD card needs to have a special format as described here.

Re: [GTA-04] multiboot with QtMoko/SHR

2012-11-13 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, with the new boot system [5] you can just format the heads/cylinders as you like and ignore [1] as long as your x-loader in NAND is intact. And even then, I suggest to follow the GTA04 documentation and not some inofficial beagle board pages. The new boot system scans for the first kernel it f

[GTA-04] multiboot with QtMoko/SHR

2012-11-13 Thread A.dre
Is it possible to prepare a SD-card for GTA-04 with multiple OS'es installed? (QtMoko and SHR in my case.) I tried and did not succeed. I followed (in chronological order) [1](sd-card), [2](QtMoko) and [3](SHR) with result [4] Different from [2] is that partition 4 is formatted as ext3 (inste