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

[Jonathan Ervine]

On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:33, Adam Gill wrote:

> I met up with Jon this morning and we tried the SD card boot on my machine ... nothing happened ......
> 
> I inserted Jon's so-dimm into my machine ... and my netbook works perfectly well ...
> 
> Am arraning replacement so-dimm or complete netbook ...
> 
> The micro switch on so-dimm does not seem to work with the SD card, but it doesn't mean it won't work with something else like USB boot or J-tag boot or something else unusual ...

Just to confirm, the SO-DIMMs were swappable, and Adam's SO-DIMM looks to be beyond repair, without recourse to JTAG or some other (so far unavailable) method of reflashing the NAND.

Moving the switch on my SO-DIMM leaves the netbook unbootable, regardless of whether the SD card is inserted. Pressing the power switch just flashes the light briefly.

Jon