On Tue, Jul 16 2013, Shawn wrote:
>> Are you aware of any restrictions in how the internal flash may be
>> partitioned?
>>
>> If, for example, I was happy to dedicate the internal flash to Debian,
>> is there any reason not to simply have three partitions:
>> - nv-uboot
>> - /boot
>> - root
>> ?
>>
> I think this will work as long as root is LABEL=ROOT-C
Why? My current SD card install doesn't ape any of the Chrome OS labels:
: wowbagger; sudo cgpt show /dev/mmcblk1
start size part contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 16384 1 Label: "uboot/kernel"
Type: ChromeOS kernel
UUID: 6522C2BD-3A91-8648-8329-C9F011624E6F
Attr: priority=12 tries=5 successful=1
16418 32768 2 Label: "/boot"
Type: Linux data
UUID: 67A5B811-FB62-1340-B912-E66C87447B99
49186 15474621 3 Label: "/"
Type: Linux data
UUID: 0BA98222-9BA5-2C4F-87C4-5E59912BFB0D
15523807 32 Sec GPT table
15523839 1 Sec GPT header
: wowbagger;
>> (Maybe even avoiding /boot if nv-uboot can read the root.)
>>
> this will only work if we use ext3 instead of ext4 for root
Current uboot can be built with ext4 support.
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