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As a heads up to everyone, this may not work with an SDHC card.  u-boot (to=
 the best of my knowledge) doesn't support SDHC, even though the linux kern=
el does.  So when u-boot goes to read the FAT filesystem and load in the ke=
rnel, it fails.

One thing that might work (Although it may mess you up in terms of kernel m=
odules and such?) is setting up u-boot to load the kernel from flash (which=
 you use with your openembedded openmoko distribution) and then pointing th=
e kernel command line toward your SDHC Debian root partition.

To do this, you will have to boot up u-boot with the prompt.  Press and hol=
d the power button, and THEN (after, not before) press and hold the AUX but=
ton.. and hold them until you see the the boot prompt.  Then connect a USB =
cable, and if your PC has the right drivers, you should have access to a se=
rial port, such as /dev/ttyACM0 which you can connect to, in order to get a=
 u-boot command line.

These commands should get you started:
printenv
setenv
saveenv

Notice the menu_# variables.  You'll want to make a hybrid which boots exac=
tly the same as internal flash (taking the kernel from flash) except that t=
he root=3Dxyz paramater will be different.

I suggest that someone make up a wiki article explaining how to do this whi=
le they're figuring it out.  (I've already had to do it once myself)

On Friday 15 August 2008 12:04:03 Joachim Breitner wrote:
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> Dear OpenMoko community,
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> the FSO packaging team of the Debian project[1] is happy to announce
> that we have started to provide installation procedures and packages
> required to have your FreeRunner[2] run Debian-powered.
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> This means that you can use your favorite tools such as apt-get and the
> other >20.000 packages on your FreeRunner, including the
> freesmartphone.org[3] software stack. You can also develop applications
> for your FreeRunner the =E2=80=9CDebian way=E2=80=9D.
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> To install Debian onto your MicroSD card, alongside your current Image
> on the internal Flash, see the instructions at
> 	http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
> These will provide you with a minimal Debian installation plus
> everything required to use zhone. From there on, you are free to modify
> your system as you wish =E2=80=93 with the full power and flexibility of =
the
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> Debian system.
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> Note that Debian does not try provide yet another software stack (or
> =E2=80=9CDistribution=E2=80=9D in the OpenMoko slang) next to 2007.2, 200=
8.8 or FSO, but
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> rather an alternative base, comparable to OpenEmbedded[3]. We are
> looking forward to also support other stacks such as the Stable Hybrid
> Release[4], once they are ready for that.
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> All this is still very new and was created during at the DebConf 8 in
> Mar de Plata since last week. This means that there are still bugs and
> other things to improve. You are invited to join the development by
> subscribing to the smartphone-standards[5] mailing list that the Debian
> team shares with the FSO team. There is also a wiki page[6] with more
> information on the pkg-fso team, including a TODO section.
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> I=E2=80=99d like to thank Jon =E2=80=9Cmaddog=E2=80=9D Hall from Koolu[7]=
 for lending me an
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> additional device for installation tests, and all the other testers at
> DebConf and elsewhere that helped us to remove at least some of the
> bugs. But don=E2=80=99t worry =E2=80=93 I=E2=80=99m sure there are some b=
ugs left for you!
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> Please send replies and further discussion to the
> smartphone-standards[5] mailing list, but note that you have to
> subscribe to that list first.
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> Enjoy!
> 	Joachim Breitner
> on behalf of the pkg-fso team:
> 	Philipp Kern
> 	Jan L=C3=BCbbe
> 	Luca Capello
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> [1] http://www.debian.org
> [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
> [3] http://wiki.openembedded.net/
> [4] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Stable_Hybrid_Release
> [5] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-stand=
ards
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> [6] http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-fso
> [7] http://www.koolu.com/
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Daniel Benoy
http://daniel.benoy.name

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