[Arm-netbook] debian for mele a1000 / a2000

[Peter Steenbergen]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Henrik Nordström <
henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:

> ons 2012-05-30 klockan 09:46 +0100 skrev lkcl luke:
>
> >  hmmm... could someone with debian and the "sfdisk" command please
> > list the parameters and attach them to the wiki somewhere appropriate?
> >  sfdisk is the programmer's fdisk and i believe its parameters are
> > unambiguous.  there would therefore be no further confusion (one might
> > hope).
>
> fdisk is equally unambigious, just remember use the u command to switch
> to sectors instead of the legacy "cylinders" view.
>
> The only rules are
>
> a) dont partition space below sector 2048. That area is reserved for
> uboot.
>
> b1) Default fallback boot is that first partition is FAT formatted and
> have system.bin and uImage contents.
>
> b2) Preferred boot method is to look for boot.scr in /boot or / on first
> partition in extX or FAT format
>
>
> If boot.scr is used then it contains the uboot commands needed for
> loading kernel (+ initrd) and booting. The uboot shell is enabled so you
> have rudimentary sh syntax capabilities.
>
>
> As long as you stay within these boundaries then you are free to decide
> how to partition. Possible layouts are for example
>
> 1) Single extX partition, sector 2048-end. boot.scr in /boot with the
> uboot commands needed for booting.
>
> 2) extX partition + swap partition. boot.scr as above.
>
> 3) FAT boot partition, extX system partition, optional swap partition.
> system.bin + uImage in FAT partition. No boot.scr.
>
> 4) Any other partition scheme you see fit for your purpose.
>
> 5) Reserving even more space and loading kernel from fixed blocks, and
> use some filesystem not supported by uboot for all partitioned storage.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
>
You better start adding that to the wiki ;)

No really. Thanks for this info, very usefull.
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