Thread: OS2007HE dual-boot/partitioning questions
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2007-07-13 , 08:31
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Originally Posted by joefru
Question 1: Is there a concise guide to doing this? The wiki guide doesn't mention OS2007HE compatibility.
It is same as 2006 and similar to 2007 on n800 (i.e. the usb storage fix).
Originally Posted by joefru
Question 2: Do I have to partiton? Why not have one big partition? I realize that Windows PCs can't mount an ext2 partition (though there is a driver available), but all my PCs are Linux-based, so that's okay. I would want to partition for swap, though.
Do what you want but the system will be slightly confused without first partition being FAT so you need some custom hacking to fix this. It is easier to have it. You can put swapfile there at least.

BTW consider searching this forum before posting, both questions were already asked (and answered) few times.

Originally Posted by Chinpokomon View Post
Question 3: With a 2GB card, can I have more than one flash image on perhaps additional partitions? I'd like to run with MMC1 VFAT, MMC2 OS2006, MMC3 OS2007HE and configure the bootmenu to have MMC3 as another option.
Then read the README.txt inside initfs_flasher.tgz

Personally I use VFAT + three ext3 partitions (2006,2007HE, temporary one for sardine or other experiments)

Or search this forum, people did it before. In fact I think all possible questions related to booting from mmc were already asked (and answered) few times here in this forum :-)