[Angstrom-distro-users] angstrom on Zaurus tosa with altboot and SD card -- without reflashing?

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On 6/14/07, angstrom-user at merctech.com <angstrom-user at merctech.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm very interested in trying Angstrom on my Zaurus SL6000 (tosa).
> However, I
> rely on this machine as a day-to-day PIM
>
> Currently, I'm using OZ 3.5.4.1, with altboot and the OZ installation on
> an SD
> card.
>
> Is it possible to install Angstrom on a different SD memory card, using
> altboot to run the Angstrom code from the SD card, without reflashing the
> Zaurus?
>
> This would allow me to test Angstrom, provide feedback for the development
> process, yet easily switch back to my OZ3.5.4.1 distro in order to access
> my
> calender (KOPI), password storage (zsafe), etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark


I am currently doing something like that with my poodle. I have a custom
2.6.17 kernel that changes the location of / from flash to SD and use that
for my daily usage. I also have a second SD Card with Custom Angstrom
kernels, again modified to boot from SD. In flash I have a console-image
with kexec-tools installed. The kernels are stored on /boot of the
respective SD cards. To boot the card, I just kexec -l the kernel and run
kexec -e to boot.

I hope this helps,

Henry
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