booting a 16GB SDHC on n800,

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Son Le wrote:
>  But I have heard 
> of many people suggesting to get a high capacity SD card to 
> allow many applications to run, but how if one cannot boot 
> from the SDHC?  

One can :-) I am booting off Transcend 8GB SDHC class 6 card with no 
problem.


>  For this knowledge, I went 
> and 
> purchased a 16 GB SDHC card.  I reflashed the n800 to os2008 
> again in which case everything would be deleted.  So I began 
> your tutorial again, but instead on this 16 GB SDHC.  
> Everything seemed to be working fine, but until I get to the 
> option where I choose which to boot from.  I chose MMC card, 
> partition 2, ext2 like how you stated, but it failed to boot 
> from it and began booting on the flash. 

There is no problem with the procedure in general but some users report 
same/similar problems with specific cards.

There are more threads about this, one example here
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10417
I'd suggest to reformat the card with panasonic SD formatter, it helped 
few peoople (see post #16 in that thread). If you still have problems 
check kernel for details why it fails.

Frantisek


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