On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 17:26, arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway my partition table is now crashed thanks to suspend/resume issue. >> I go digging in mailing list, I think I saw ways to recover... else >> I'll have to start from 0... > > any linux distribution should offer tools to recover lost partitions and > recreate partitiontables. > i think parted is one. > > after recovery backup your bootsector by doing > > dd if=/dev/mmcbl0 of=boot.backup bs=512 count=1 > > in case you loose it again, do > > dd if=boot.backup of=/dev/mmcblk0 > > that's on your host! i don't know, if that works from fr, though. >
thank you, that will help me a lot ! On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 16:35, Vikas Saurabh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could recover the data by creating the same paritioning and then > re-downloading the kernel in the first partition (one of teh post suggested > that the bug actually eats up a sector from the first partition as well....I > didn't check and downloading the kernel was pretty easy). > How did you recreate the same partitioning ? Informations from my fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 before the corruption will be enough to recreate it the same way ? Anyway I guess I'll first try to find a tool to do the recovery... _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community