[Gta04-owner] installing Replicant / multiboot

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 23.10.2013 um 16:23 schrieb Andreas Kemnade:

> Hi,
> 
> I finally want to install replicant on my sd card. So where I find
> instructions? If I remembered correctly I once had android on one
> partition besides other repos on my gta02. Now I want to have a similar
> setup for replicant on my gta04. I guess I have to just give the right
> root partition to the replicant kernel, put a tarball on a new partition
> and maybe fix some mount commands in an init script.
> 
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GTA04Installation
> 
> does not contain a link for the files. Do I have to build everything
> myself from source? 

before you are working with outdated information and reinventing
what we have prepared the last weeks:

we are working on a new 4.0 release that is easy to install for multiboot.
Just needs the latest u-boot in NAND.

Then, install the rootfs [1] to a single-partition ext2/3/4 SD card and
boot. It will take the kernel and rootfs from the SD card. You can remove
the card and insert another one to boot that.

And, you can even unpack to an ext2/3/4 partiton of a multi-partition
SD card and use the U-Boot manager.

The current version isn't really stable since we have just learned how
to work on it and it uses an old 3.0 kernel that doesn't support the
GTA04 well.

We want to work on the 3.12 kernel to get it Android compatible, but
currently we fail compiling it (the Replicant toolchain is a little too old
for some 3.12 idioms).

BR,
Nikolaus

[1]: http://download.goldelico.com/gta04-replicant/4.0/20131022-Replicant-4.0/