Sorry for the delay - I was on vacation It's fantastic that you guys were able to solve most of your problems yourself and even managed to run my sample image on a Kobo Mini (fixing bootloader)!! Now I'm back with the necessary kernel changes needed to install Debian on your Kobos: https://github.com/marek-g/kobo-kernel-2.6.35.3-marek The only changes needed to run X11 are related to the eInk disp