Kelvie Wong wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ flash_eraseall /dev/mtd3
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 7e -- 98 % complete.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat uImage.bin /dev/mtd3
cat: write error: Invalid argument
The problem is that the mtd driver will only accept writes with length
equal a multiple of
Sarton O'Brien wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:05:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live (i.e. with
the software still running)? Is the boot partition (it's on the NAND Flash
somewhere) something I can just mount and override a file? Or
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 23:57:34 Tore Martin Hagen wrote:
I don't have my phone right here, but you can do a
cat /proc/mtd
and it will list out which mtd partition that contains the kernel. Then
you do
flasheraseall /dev/mtdX
cat yourUimage.bin /dev/mtdX
And thats it
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Sarton O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
[...]
opkg upgrade manages this so I'd say you could ... using a tool like mtd or
such, I really don't how, just that it does :)
Does opkg recognize if the system was booted from flash or from the sd card
before update
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Kelvie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 18:38:25 Sarton O'Brien wrote:
I read somewhere that there should be the ability in linux down the track
to actually do a 'live update' without a reboot. That'd be interesting and
useful
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 23:57:34 Tore Martin Hagen wrote:
Sarton O'Brien wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:05:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live (i.e. with
the software still running)? Is the boot partition (it's on the NAND
Nicola Mfb wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Sarton O'Brien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
opkg upgrade manages this so I'd say you could ... using a tool
like mtd or
such, I really don't how, just that it does :)
Does opkg recognize if the
Kelvie Wong wrote:
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 23:57:34 Tore Martin Hagen wrote:
Sarton O'Brien wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:05:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live
(i.e. with
the software still running)? Is the
El Thursday, 25 de September de 2008 12:10:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] va
escriure:
Does opkg recognize if the system was booted from flash or from the sd
card before update the kernel?
Not to my knowledge, I make sure to rm /etc/default/flashkernel before
an opkg upgrade. It's autocreated after
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jose Luis Perez Diez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Thursday, 25 de September de 2008 12:10:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] va
escriure:
Does opkg recognize if the system was booted from flash or from the sd
card before update the kernel?
Not to my knowledge, I
Nicola Mfb wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jose Luis Perez Diez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Thursday, 25 de September de 2008 12:10:10
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] va
escriure:
Does opkg recognize if the system was booted
On Thursday 25 September 2008, Nicola Mfb wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jose Luis Perez Diez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Thursday, 25 de September de 2008 12:10:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] va
escriure:
Does opkg recognize if the system was booted from flash or from the
sd card
Kelvie Wong wrote:
I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live (i.e. with the
software still running)? Is the boot partition (it's on the NAND Flash
somewhere) something I can just mount and override a file? Or do I have to
use dd? Or is there some trickery I can do
On Thursday, September 25, 2008 03:20:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've not tried cat before but have used mtd-utils. Sorry, that's what I
meant before. It's available at least in the testing repo but I've not
tested on the freerunner. There seems to minor limitations on what some
of the system
On Friday 26 September 2008 10:17:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
On Thursday, September 25, 2008 03:20:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've not tried cat before but have used mtd-utils. Sorry, that's what I
meant before. It's available at least in the testing repo but I've not
tested on the freerunner.
I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live (i.e. with the
software still running)? Is the boot partition (it's on the NAND Flash
somewhere) something I can just mount and override a file? Or do I have to
use dd? Or is there some trickery I can do with dfu-util?
--
Kelvie
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:05:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live (i.e. with
the software still running)? Is the boot partition (it's on the NAND Flash
somewhere) something I can just mount and override a file? Or do I have to
use dd?
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 18:38:25 Sarton O'Brien wrote:
I read somewhere that there should be the ability in linux down the track
to actually do a 'live update' without a reboot. That'd be interesting and
useful on a slow booting device :)
I believe what you are referring to is kexec
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