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Get http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/meego-codedrop-arm-n900-201003311626.tar.gz http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/zImage-arm-n900 | Get http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/meego-codedrop-arm-n900-201003311626.tar.gz http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/zImage-arm-n900 | ||
Revision as of 03:29, 13 May 2010
This is a brief page outlining thoughts on rescue disks.
If you've bootlooped your device, and it sort-of-comes up - but not all the way - what can you do? Well - flash it of course.
none of this is tested - it's hypothetical to get my thoughts in order.
Alternatives? ==Booting from mmc== (this does not work - the kernel does not support mmc) Get http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/meego-codedrop-arm-n900-201003311626.tar.gz http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/zImage-arm-n900
Flash the kernel to the device.
untar the image to the first partition of a microSD.
Use flasher to boot it. Correct any oopses in script editing or stuff. Reflash original kernel.
A better way
Work out how to boot a fs from MyDocs - which is a vfat partition. Plug n900 in - when off - it will now present MyDocs as a vfat device you can mount. Clear 500M or so of space (if needed).
Place boot filesystem on MyDocs. boot it using flasher, as above, to pass appropriate parameters to kernel.