[Arm-netbook] Booting from SD card with switch on so-dimm in other direction ...

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton luke.leighton at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 22 16:55:32 GMT 2010


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Adam Gill <madallig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Jon,
>
> I still have my CT-PC89E netbook here and I was talking with Luke earlier
> today about the possibility that the switch on the so-dimm - if moved to the
> other position, may be able to boot from the SD card if the correct u-boot
> version is put on the SD card

 it's a hypothesis that needs testing.

>- of which Frans knows which is the correct
> version ....

 it was frans i believe who first did the dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1
of=/tmp/foo dump, the entire contents of which will have to be put
into *exactly* the right place (exactly the same position) so i
recommend a 2gb SD card for this, exactly the same size as the Sandisk
NAND drive.

so, jon, if you want to help trying that, it's utterly simple, and
you... hey, actually, you could probably just copy the entire NAND
onto the SDcard in _your_ machine: dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/mmcblk1

make DAMN sure that's the right way round :)

l.



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