Thread: Booting from MMC on N800 Now Available!!
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nhanquy is offline nhanquy
2008-01-19 , 22:28
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Originally Posted by pauljohn32 View Post
i am experienced with linux. I think the simplified nature of these instructions is perplexing.

1. Can i boot from the external SD card? (instructions seem to always assume internal)

2. Why do we need the vfat partiition on the front of the flash disk?

3. Why not create a more ordinary partition arrangement, as on a full linux system. Separate partition for /home, Especially. That would allow us to protect docs while replacing OS.

TIA

PJ
1. yes you can ! Just add external SD (mmc1, mmcblk1p2) [clone it from the item for internal SD (mmc2, mmcblk0p2) ] to bootmenu.config before you flash the boot loader.

2. You don't need to just to make it work with windoze I think. Note that the above item could be different and no longer blk1p1 but maybe blk1p0. I am taking the N800 as an example here. I do not have a N810!

3. Yes. You can do that.