<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 23 Mar 2010, at 00:55, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Adam Gill <<a href="mailto:madallig@gmail.com">madallig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hello Jon,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I still have my CT-PC89E netbook here and I was talking with Luke earlier<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">today about the possibility that the switch on the so-dimm - if moved to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">other position, may be able to boot from the SD card if the correct u-boot<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">version is put on the SD card<br></blockquote><br> it's a hypothesis that needs testing.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Worth testing to find out.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">- of which Frans knows which is the correct<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">version ....<br></blockquote><br> it was frans i believe who first did the dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1<br>of=/tmp/foo dump, the entire contents of which will have to be put<br>into *exactly* the right place (exactly the same position) so i<br>recommend a 2gb SD card for this, exactly the same size as the Sandisk<br>NAND drive.<br><br>so, jon, if you want to help trying that, it's utterly simple, and<br>you... hey, actually, you could probably just copy the entire NAND<br>onto the SDcard in _your_ machine: dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/mmcblk1<br><br>make DAMN sure that's the right way round :)<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I have a 2GB SD card, so I can prep this with a view to trying to restore to Adam's system. We'll have to organise a convenient time to do this. I've got a busy weekend coming up when computing won't exactly be high priority ...</div><div><br></div><div>Once the internal NAND is dd copied to the SD card is it expected that it should just 'boot', or would the three fingered salute be required?</div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div></body></html>