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2008-01-27 , 10:54
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Originally Posted by ghoonk View Post
I think I found part of the problem.

After partitioning, i rebooted, then

sudo gainroot
sfdisk -ls

and got the following results:

/home/user # sfdisk -ls
/dev/mmcblk0: 15694336

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 490448 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 32768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 32 448031 448000 14336000 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 0+ 31 32- 1023+ 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3 448032 490447 42416 1357312 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
total: 15694336 blocks

For some strange reason, the 1GB I allocated for the Linux partition for the bootspace ended up being mmcblk0p3 instead of mmcblk0p2 as I thought.

How do I designate p03 to be the default bootspace?
Personally I'd try deleting the the po3 and use p02 for conformity but if you use the bootmenu.conf.n800.example that comes with the initfs flasher and rename it to bootmenu.conf and reflash initfs, you will get the option to boot of the 3rd partition:

Originally Posted by bootmenu.conf.n800.example
MENU_3_NAME="Internal/first MMC card, partition 3, ext2"
MENU_3_ID="mmc3"
MENU_3_DEVICE="mmcblk0p3"
MENU_3_MODULES="mbcache ext2"
MENU_3_FSTYPE="ext2"
MENU_3_FSOPTIONS="noatime"
Last edited by qwerty12; 2008-01-27 at 10:56.