[Gta04-owner] Replicant images on GTA04 release

[Radek Polak]

On Friday, September 14, 2012 08:45:43 AM Paul Kocialkowski wrote:

> > I quite dont like that the script deletes the whole SD card (or am i
> > wrong?). I have 32GB uSD card with 24GB of data on it (mp3, images,
> > videos, maps etc..)
> 
> You're absolutely right, the script will erase the SD card.

In the end i found second SD card for experimenting. I tried the script, but 
since the reader in my notebook reckognizes the sd card as /dev/mmcblk0 (and 
the partitions are mmcblk0p1) it did not work. But i have modified it to 
prepend "p" in front of partition number and now i got now the system SD card.

But i was quite surprised i even cant boot from this SD card. It requires me 
to flash bootloader and kernel in NAND (or am i wrong?).

Why? I can understand that android likes 3 partitions on SD card, but why it 
needs even flashing stuff to NAND. I have in NAND goldelico's kernel and debian 
that came with the phone and it's invaluable when i do something wrong with SD 
card. Why does replicant requires to delete all non-android bits on the device 
to start running? Is there any technical reason to flash NAND?

I think it will be quite hard for normal users to install normal distro again. 
I spent many hours troubleshooting Freerunner users because of non standard 
bootloader that Android on Freerunner was using. Could we please avoid this on  
GTA04... 

Regards

Radek