[Gta04-owner] Is it safe to play with NAND without AUX button?

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Sun Jan 29 11:55:38 CET 2012


Hi Radek,
brief answer.

replacement buttons @ DigiKey: P10850SCT-ND

boot order is same as BeagleBoard: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#User_button

AUX button is important if NAND contains X-Loader image with valid checksum but is broken (in source code).

-- hns

Am 29.01.2012 um 12:31 schrieb Radek Polak:

> Hi,
> AUX button is now broken on my GTA04. It's not a big problem for me, since i 
> will adapt QtMoko UI so that it's usable just with POWER button (and i have 
> Freerunner with broken AUX too..)
> 
> But i wanted to install QtMoko in NAND and i read that if something goes wrong 
> i need to be able to press AUX to recover from it. Is it true?
> 
> I think the information about how GTA04 boot could be explained a bit better. 
> I can boot from serial and from SD card now. What is the boot priority? Is the 
> serial boot the first? If yes then can i screw NAND and still repair it with 
> serial boot?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Radek
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