[maemo-users] Booting from a flash card

[From: sean]

Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I used the nice wiki page http://wiki.maemo.org/Booting_from_a_flash_card to 
> make my N800 boot from my internal flash card (internal mmc).
> 
> Nokia-N800-23-14:~# df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mmcblk0p2            4096      2404      1692  59% /mnt/initfs
> none                       512        88       424  17% /mnt/initfs/tmp
> /dev/mmcblk0p2        12019360    424824  10983976   4% /
> none                       512        88       424  17% /tmp
> none                      1024        56       968   5% /dev
> tmpfs                     1024         0      1024   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mmcblk0p1         3902704   1203160   2699544  31% /media/mmc2
> Nokia-N800-23-14:~# 
> 
> What does not work though is to make the internal flash card (internal mmc) 
> the default boot device with
> 
> chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:immc2
> 
> The N800 always wants to boot from internal flash (flash) instead.
> 
> Any hint what I am doing wrong is welcome...
> 
> Thanks,
> Rainer
> _______________________________________________

I had the same problem.
I wanted to redo the the partition sizes anyway so I went through the
steps again.
The differences I did were on how I answered the final questions on boot
methods.