Possible To Boot Another Os Off Of The Sd Card?
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lulzfish
Pandora Defense Squad
Yes, I'm pretty sure the default bootloader will have options for SD booting.
This is the "unbrickable" feature: You can always re-install the OS from an SD card, as long as the BIOS boot stuff isn't corrupted.
However, you'll need an ARM version of any OS you want to boot, and the proper drivers.
I don't know if ARM Backtrack exists, you'll have to ask around.
This is the "unbrickable" feature: You can always re-install the OS from an SD card, as long as the BIOS boot stuff isn't corrupted.
However, you'll need an ARM version of any OS you want to boot, and the proper drivers.
I don't know if ARM Backtrack exists, you'll have to ask around.
skeezix
Internal Development
Yes, you can boot alternate OSes from SD.
(For dev, we pretty much avoid sticking gunk in flash since we might be buggering it up as we hack around etc.. so pretty much all of us are booting off SD right now. I actually keep a couple of SDs set up with various versions, but you can boot multiple OS images from a single SD etc.)
Its not fancy, but it works
jeff
(For dev, we pretty much avoid sticking gunk in flash since we might be buggering it up as we hack around etc.. so pretty much all of us are booting off SD right now. I actually keep a couple of SDs set up with various versions, but you can boot multiple OS images from a single SD etc.)
Its not fancy, but it works
jeff
afaik there is no arm version of backtrack, nor of slax (the distribution backtrack is based on), and the arm port of slackware (the distribution slax is based on) isn't one of the best arm distros for "advanced" devices, since it's still targeting the old ABI.
There is nothing to prevent you from installing the same packages on another linux distro and booting it from an SD card; I would recommend using debian as a good compromise between ease and configurability, but ubuntu will do on the easy side (and will probably be already available for pandora as an SD image download) and you can go the openembedded/Angstrom road for configurability.
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afaik there is no arm version of backtrack, nor of slax (the distribution backtrack is based on), and the arm port of slackware (the distribution slax is based on) isn't one of the best arm distros for "advanced" devices, since it's still targeting the old ABI.
There is nothing to prevent you from installing the same packages on another linux distro and booting it from an SD card; I would recommend using debian as a good compromise between ease and configurability, but ubuntu will do on the easy side (and will probably be already available for pandora as an SD image download"] and you can go the openembedded/Angstrom road for configurability.[/quote]Cool, thanks for help.
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Squidge
Certified Guru
This is the "unbrickable" feature: You can always re-install the OS from an SD card, as long as the BIOS boot stuff isn't corrupted.
Which is in mask rom, so if anyone manages that we'll be impressed
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_VWV_
Member
Can't you just short-circuit the rom to erase everything in it?
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lulzfish
Pandora Defense Squad
I'll bet you could brick the Pandora by taking it to the beach and dipping it in a little salt water.
But there's no software-based way to brick it.
But there's no software-based way to brick it.
Squidge
Certified Guru
Can't you just short-circuit the rom to erase everything in it?
Not really, this isn't EEPROM. But with daft voltages you can of course damage it beyond recovery.
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