Alter advanced boot

Hello All,

I setup my system to boot from the internal memory card I just
installed. Nice seeing all that memory available.
It works great but I would like to alter two things, and I am not sure
of the best way to do it after all is in place.

I would like to reduce the default timeout period it waits before
booting the default partition.

Next, even though I followed the instructions here,
http://wiki.maemo.org/Booting_from_a_flash_card and told it to boot from
the internal memory card as default, the listed default partition is the
external memory card slot, and I do not even have a card installed there
on my N800 running latest Diablo.

Unfortunately it is not as simple as altering grub, so is anyone able to
shed some light on the answers for me?

Thanks
Sean

At Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:58:11 -0400,
sean wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I setup my system to boot from the internal memory card I just
> installed. Nice seeing all that memory available.
> It works great but I would like to alter two things, and I am not sure
> of the best way to do it after all is in place.
>
> I would like to reduce the default timeout period it waits before
> booting the default partition.
>
> Next, even though I followed the instructions here,
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Booting_from_a_flash_card and told it to boot from
> the internal memory card as default, the listed default partition is the
> external memory card slot, and I do not even have a card installed there
> on my N800 running latest Diablo.
>
> Unfortunately it is not as simple as altering grub, so is anyone able to
> shed some light on the answers for me?

I'm interested in the solution to this problem as well. I would like
to boot from my internal memory card but, for some reason, the boot
sequence defaults to the flash disk, even though I'm sure I said
otherwise when setting up the boot parameters.

Being paranoid, my timeout period is long enough luckily...

Thanks,
eric

Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
> I'm interested in the solution to this problem as well. I would like
> to boot from my internal memory card but, for some reason, the boot
> sequence defaults to the flash disk, even though I'm sure I said
> otherwise when setting up the boot parameters.
>
> Being paranoid, my timeout period is long enough luckily...
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
>

Well I decided that I wanted to alter some partition sizes and went
through the steps again.All is working as it should now.
Except for the final questions I think all steps were done the same.
I said no to some of the final questions, when on the first pass I had
answered yes to all.

Said no to certain recovery methods and told it to do a clean-up of some
extra things. Sorry, don't have the specific questions, did this late
yesterday.

I also edited the bootmenu as the instructions state to bring down the
default time out.
Is there a way to change the default timeout after the setup is complete?
I never received an answer.

Another observation I had was the idea of virtual memory. OS2008 lets
you extend virtual memory up to a max of 128MB in the memory options.
Instead, it might be nice if you could create one of those partitions,
whatever the size, and tell the OS to use that full partition as virtual
memory. Perhaps MER might entertain this idea?
Memory cards have become so big now, you could easily partition off a
gig or more and still leave plenty for the tablet applications.

Sean