Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
A Dijous, 4 de de febrer de 2010 04:21:36, Jonathan Schultz va escriure: > Hello, > > Since I only ever boot my freerunner under Debian I do get pretty sick > of having to play with the boot loader menu every time I boot. It's > especially painful when the freerunner has crashed to the boot proces

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Joachim Ott
On 4 February 2010 04:21, Jonathan Schultz wrote: > Hello, > > Since I only ever boot my freerunner under Debian I do get pretty sick > of having to play with the boot loader menu every time I boot. It's > especially painful when the freerunner has crashed to the boot process > does a disk check t

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Schultz
Thanks for your thoughts. The problem with using Qi is that it can only go into NAND which still means you have to push the Aux button when you boot (and a 2nd time if there are file check errors). Jonathan Jose Luis Perez Diez wrote: > A Dijous, 4 de de febrer de 2010 04:21:36, Jonathan Schult

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Schultz
> Why don't you put debian into flash and then, during boot, mount the > big, space consuming rest (/home, /opt, /usr/share, ...) from SD card? Would that work? Wouldn't it mean you'd have to have separate partitions on the SD card for each of those directories? Jonathan __

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread arne anka
> Thanks for your thoughts. The problem with using Qi is that it can only > go into NAND which still means you have to push the Aux button when you > boot (and a 2nd time if there are file check errors). huh? where did you get that from? qi tries to boot all sd partitions and falls back to nand i

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Joachim Ott
On 4 February 2010 13:51, Jonathan Schultz wrote: >> Why don't you put debian into flash and then, during boot, mount the >> big, space consuming rest (/home, /opt, /usr/share, ...) from SD card? > > Would that work?  Wouldn't it mean you'd have to have separate > partitions on the SD card for eac

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
A Dijous, 4 de de febrer de 2010 13:49:37, Jonathan Schultz va escriure: > Thanks for your thoughts. The problem with using Qi is that it can only > go into NAND which still means you have to push the Aux button when you > boot (and a 2nd time if there are file check errors). > U-boot nor -> no

Re: Making debian the default boot

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Schultz
> qi tries to boot all sd partitions and falls back to nand if no sd > partition has a kernel. > pleased read >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi > > qi _is_ the solution for your scenario. Thanks, I'd mistakenly assumed Qi would require boot-time intervention to make it load. Once I worked o