I have set up mmc booting with penguinbait's tools and it works ok but I am getting weird issues sometimes. What I did try, was to:

1. Extract rootfs.jffs2 from the firmware flash image
2. Mount the rootfs.jffs2 on my linux box
3. USB - Plug in the n800 booted from flash and mkfs.ext2 the mmc system partition (/dev/mmcblk0p2 in this case)
4. Use tar (from my desktop linux box) to clone mounted rootfs.jffs2 to the mmc system partition
5. Copy backed up fstab (with swap entry) to the cloned system partition
6. Unmount everything then reboot.

Unfortunately, upon selecting mmc boot entry n800 resets after a while and shows the menu... (all I am getting is the booting from ... screen for a moment and then reset)

is there anything that has to be modified to enable booting from such cloned partitions ?

(such as perhaps some device nodes? )

UPDATE: recreating dev entries does not help. It still resets...


thanks in advance.