Thread: *really* backing up an n800?
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Quartz is offline Quartz
2008-03-06 , 18:31
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Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
When backing up live system you may end with some additional runtime garbage in the image but it doesn't hurt, better keep the system quiet when backing up.
fair enough

Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
Well, no, even the stock initfs can boot from mmc but you need usb flasher to set the choice,
really? ::looks::
is that the "set default root device" option? what's the syntax for that?

Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
there is no menu and only first found ext2 partition is used. When I created bootmenu, initfs could boot only from mmcblk0p1 which was not very useful for running cloned system.
ok, this is the first I've ever heard about this. so if I were able to put an OS on an sd card, I could use the flasher to tell it to boot off it as long as it's p1? (what's the limitation here, that I can't have a fat32 partition for vm on the same card?)

Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
Later they added search_root_onmmc() which scans all mmc partitions for executable /sbin/init and first one is booted.
define "later", I'm using what I believe is the first and only non-beta release of OS2008... or do you mean 'later' as in later hardware?