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Originally Posted by hansel
Just an idea after ericshliao's experiments: why not develop an IliadOs on bootable CF? If that boots approximately as fast as a stock Iliad it would enable us to leave the original software alone... This would make it less scary to upgrade and more people would join in...
What do you think?
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Booting from CF is simple enough. You can take the current version of the iLiadOS and run it from a CF card.
However, this isn't easy for "Joe User". You have to be able to format the card with an ext2/3 file system, and copy the files and file structure from the reflash image to the card. It's not a simple process, and the card is basically unusable for anything but the operating system (unless you mess with file paths and mount points).
Reflashing the normal way should be a "safe" process. I think the issue with my dead iLiad is unrelated.