How To Compile Your Own Kernels, Modules, Tinboot (NAND boot), and More for Beginners

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by jerryyyyy

Thanks, but I think we have probably both done that and NAND seems a touch scary to me with potential bricking of the phone more likely than with Haret. Is this a misperception?

Pretty difficult to brick the phone, and trust me, I have tried...

We are writing a bootloader (tinboot in this case) to the NAND which is executed, unpacks the kernel, and then runs the init/install scripts. I ended up having to write a document of this post because every time I start to update it, I either get pulled away, or we change something crucial :P

I'm still going to gear this toward NAND because we have a lot more control over cmdline and such with Haret, so you don't need some of the detail for that. I'll have a better explanation of the boot sequence in the Tinboot section too.