[Arm-netbook] debian for mele a1000 / a2000

[Henrik Nordström]

tis 2012-05-29 klockan 23:33 -0400 skrev Gary Cramblitt:

> At least two articles make the statement that first partition must start
> "at sector 2048".  I've been assuming that meant *at least* sector 2048,
> but perhaps that is wrong and it must be exactly sector 2048?

It just needs to start somewhere after the u-boot environment which is
at 544KB + 128KB. sector 2048 (1MB) is just a nice round number after
there and happens to be default start sector in modern partitioning
tools.

u-boot starts just fine even if you do not partitioning at all. TO try
this just dump the u-boot image I have at
http://www.henriknordstrom.net/code/A10/ to an SD. This is a minimal
image with only u-boot, completely unpartitioned.

additionally there is no need to have multiple partitions. A single
large extX partition is sufficient, but you need to make a boot.scr
u-boot script in /boot (or /) with the commands for loading script.bin,
kernel & initrd if any.

Regards
Henrik