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Old 08-18-2017, 07:59 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
The button combinations mentioned are those used to trigger a factory reset. It probably means these button combinations trigger alternate boot sequence: external SD card and then the recovery partition..
Yes! If sdcard is present root is /dev/mmcblk1p1 (first partition on external sdcard) instead of /dev/mmcblk0p2 (second partition on internal sdcard - the recovery partition).


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Originally Posted by lohtse View Post
could you provide links to the distros etc :-)
sorry but no ready-to-go binary distros for armhf. slackwarearm should work but is soft-float so you'll loss the ability to run other software made for kobo. Here is a link to the mini-rootfs ftp://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slackwar...01Jul16.tar.xz

I would suggest to install debian instead. You can install it via debootstrap/multistrap, there are a lot of guides online for that task.

I think I can legally share a binary copy of debian armhf distro targeted for kobos, but sadly I can't distribute the kernel, kernel modules and fw present on kobo devices, which are needed to do something useful with the device.
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