[Arm-netbook] First stab at a custom kernel

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton luke.leighton at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 3 15:45:22 GMT 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
>> Alternatively it should I think in theory also be possible to just dd
>> the custom zImage to mmcblk0p1 with an offset of 90971136...
>
> I have tested this (using a swap partition on another SD card), and the
> following should do the trick.

 frans... think about it: if the kernel you replace with is
non-successful, how are you going to get access to the NAND flash, in
order to put on the former kernel? :)

 at least with the chitech boot process, you _know_ it will always
work (even if the kernel you put on there doesn't).

 l.



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