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Everything Else => Sharp Zaurus => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => 6000 - Tosa => Topic started by: arrakis on June 23, 2004, 05:55:24 pm

Title: disk booting
Post by: arrakis on June 23, 2004, 05:55:24 pm

I'm not sure if this is strictly a 6000L issue, nor if it will be something we will see until we have all the driver kinks worked out, but here goes:

Is anyone doing a disk boot from microdrive? I'm very interested in making the 6000L into a real laptop replacement, including perhaps booting from a microdrive (or booting testing environments from micdrodrive, at least)

I'm not certain that there is much point to it, when you could just run /boot out of the flash area. I suppose I'm mostly looking for ways to get a regular style of distro onto the Z.

Title: disk booting
Post by: BarryW on June 27, 2004, 05:15:16 am

I don't know about the Z, but I used to boot Debian on my iPaq.  Has to have the boot rom on flash but it would do a pivot root to the microdrive.  If you can do it on something that doesn't have linux installed on it by default, you should be able to do it on the zaurus.