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Old 04-29-2014, 04:34 PM   #30
Aydan
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Originally Posted by Lucas Malor View Post
Can't you overwrite uboot completely?
Yes, with another uboot or some such, that can load the kernel into memory and start it. uboot also does the basic hardware initialization like setting up clocks for the CPU and RAM. Just copying the kernel doesn't cut it.
Basically uboot is like the BIOS for the PC.

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