Boot process (Samsung I9070)

Created by: Roysten

The Samsung I9070 does not have a separate recovery partition because it uses an Sony Ericsson SOC (U8500). This means I will have to do some work to boot pmOS on this device. However it is unclear to me how the boot process works.

The way I think it works: Upon booting the device will load the Samsung initramfs from a hardcoded block offset. This initramfs contains an init script which you use to load the pmOS initramfs from the recovery partition. Your initramfs will load the actual kernel and boot pmOS.

Now since I don't have a recovery partition, I'm not sure what would be the best way for me to continue. Can I freely use another partition (such as KERNEL2) for the initramfs?