[Olpc-open] dual boot ubuntu

[Ivan Krstić]

On Dec 24, 2007, at 10:06 AM, gnome wrote:
> I mean, is grub already part of sugar?

Sugar is just the OLPC graphical environment. Underpinning it is a  
modified Fedora, and we're not using grub or another bootloader there.

> tell sugar to include the SD card in the boot order?

With a developer key, you will be able to instruct OpenFirmware to  
boot from the SD card.

> Is the SD
> card mounted early enough in the startup process that it can boot  
> from a
> kernel on the card?

Yes. For security reasons, this doesn't work out of the box (on  
machines without a developer key).

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