[Mipsbook-devel] [ANN]: choose boot from different root devices by pressing F-Keys (e.g. NAND yaffs, SD card, minifs)

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

I have added a patch [1] that checks if some F-Keys are pressed and  
changes/overwrites the root= parameter provided from U-Boot. This  
allows to choose the rootfs come from SD card (first or second  
partition), the internal yaffs2 system or the jffs2 minifs (both in  
NAND flash). A description of the modifier keys is in [2]. This solves  
issue #78.

Please note that we currently don't have a rootfs for the minifs  
partitiopn. And we don't have a flasher tool. My idea would be to use  
a stripped down debian lenny base install. Flashing should be quite  
trivial by doing some "dd -of=/dev/mtd3".

[1]: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/letux-400/source/commit/713f89623ca3a76bcf0cc66c4bed016066eb559e/
[2]: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/l400-rootfs/page/Operation/
[3]: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/letux-400/issues/78/