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This describes the list of partition variants that are supported.
Introduction
The makes tool allows to download and install multiple partitions on a SD card so that you can install and multi-boot to different operating systems through the boot loader menu.
Variants
Variants are named by one keyword, but might recursively expand to several partition descriptions. This allows e.g. to format a production image for the gta04b2 by just specifying this name. It will expand into a FAT boot partition with MLO, X-Loader, kernel and an ext rootfs partition with the root file system that can be used for flashing the NAND:
list of variants (each of these keywords stands for a partition)
- gta04 - MLO, X-Loader, u-boot for gta04 (FAT)
- gta04b2 - MLO, X-Loader, u-boot for gta04b2 (FAT)
- gta04b3 - MLO, X-Loader, u-boot for gta0b3 (FAT)
- gta04b4 - MLO, X-Loader, u-boot for gta04b4 (FAT)
- gta04b7 - MLO, X-Loader, u-boot for gta04b7 (FAT)
- debian - basic debian rootfs (ext)
- lxde - LXDE debian rootfs (ext)
- replicant - Replicant 4.2 rootfs (ext)
- quantumstep - QuantumSTEP rootfs (ext)
- beagleboneblack
- beagleboard
- beagleboardxm
- openpandora
- pandaboard
- omap5432
- pyra
- udoo
- lenny400
- letux-400
- none - skipped and not formatted
- fat - empty FAT partition (e.g. for data)
- ext - empty ext partition (e.g. for data)
- -k kernel - the kernel to be used
- ...
modifiers
you can specify
- version to be used (latest, unstable, )
- size of partition