Re: recovery from apt-get dist-upgrade gone wrong

2009-10-13 Thread Frantisek Dufka
yes, apt-get upgrade is a cake (and cake is a lie :-) Andrea Borgia wrote: plan B, for a way to extract one from another device(*) That should be possible. You need just the rootfs. On working tablet mount rootfs again to some other directory (to get rid of other filesystems mounted on top

Re: recovery from apt-get dist-upgrade gone wrong

2009-10-13 Thread Andrea Borgia
Frantisek Dufka ha scritto: Sadly I don't know more details sice I couldn't go to summit and don't have the device. Many things changed with N900. Thank you very much for the tips. I will have a look at the info you provided, just one quick question: this evening, coming back from the

Re: Re: recovery from apt-get dist-upgrade gone wrong

2009-10-13 Thread FrantiĊĦek Dufka
I made a gzipped copy of /dev/mtd* 0 through 4. Are those of any use at all? close but most probably no, /dev/mtd5 looks like the correct one see dmesg output here http://pastebin.ca/1610167 lines 47-75 and 154-159 So maybe, just maybe, flasher could flash copy of /dev/mtd5 as rootfs.