Thread: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for Jolla
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Raim is offline Raim
2014-01-06 , 20:43
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
I suppose it's possible to create a recovery kernel that actually swaps the mmcblk0 and mmcblk1 devices in the device so that if you have a copy of the filesystem on your external SD card you caould run the device fully on that.
If you want to experiment with a different OS, you could just boot from fastboot with "root=/dev/mmcblk1pX" as kernel argument and run from the SD card.

For a clone of the "sailfish" partition, it would probably be a good idea to change the partition UUID to something different and change /etc/fstab accordingly to avoid mounting home or swap from the internal storage. Probably needs some more changes in /lib/systemd/system/*.mount for things like /firmware or /var/systemlog.
 

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