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Originally Posted by Zog
Trying the cool-er system on the Kobo:
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I followed Zog's instructions on booting the Cool-er firmware from a SD card, more or less. And yes, turning pages is noticeably faster: there is NO delay between pressing the button and the black screen-flash-wipe. I only made just a couple of changes that didn't seem to affect anything:
1- I didn't comment out the "msd.sh", and it didn't seem to have any effect on the system (ie. nothing crashes in any obvious way)
2- I partitioned my 2GB SD card into two equal-sized 1GB partitions (/dev/sdd1 and /dev/sdd2 on my system). I marked the first one as bootable (dunno if that was necessary), and formatted that one as ext3. I formatted the second one as FAT16. So for any other interested Kobo hackers, a 1GB SD card has plenty of space: There is still 700+KB free in the ext3 partition.
I was hoping that the FAT16 partition would be visible to my pseudo-Cooler, but unfortunately it could only see the Kobo's internal memory. If anybody else wants to try and figure out how to get the Cool-er init scripts to mount the second partition instead, please share the trick with the rest of us! I'd tried editing the "msd.sh" script but I am not sure which /dev/??? device to choose. Personally I'd LOVE to set it up so that booting to the Cool-er firmware ONLY uses the SD card and ignores the internal memory. Any ideas?
And I have another question about using the Cool-er firmware instead of the Kobo's. As there doesn't seem to be a "sleep" mode, it will only turn itself off after being idle. But when I turn it back on, it remembers which book I was reading but it won't go back to the page I was on. Is this something that I'm doing wrong or is that how the Cool-er is supposed to operate?