new image

Kristoffer Ericson kristoffer.ericson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 15:45:37 EDT 2010


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:50:25PM +0000, Stassa Patsantzis wrote:
> OK, I installed the new image on my SD cards and there's good news and bad news. 
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> Good news: I booted from both my SD cards, 2GB and 8GB. Previously I couldn't boot from the 8GB card (I'm not sure about the 2GB), with that "ext2fs_devread() read outside partition sector -1046292800" error.
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> I thought that must be the new bootloader that lets me boot from SD, but I tried the old images again, just for the heck of it, and they still don't boot. I tried with a smaller partition (1024 cylinders) and still no luck. 
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> Btw, good idea to make the font smaller in the new image :) 
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> Bad news: gmenu2x crashed on me several times. That is, it exited to the shell without doing anything after I tried to start explorer and clock, and I think also GMU.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't experiment any more right now because I erased the bootloader from the NAND and then I realised I was in the wrong directory (::dumb::), so I exited usbboot and tried to start it again from the right directory. I managed to short the pins with the bit of rubberised carbon, but I couldn't boot the device with usbboot. Some tries gave me this error:  
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> Error - can't retrieve XBurst CPU information: -71
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> And others gave me this: 
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> Error - can't retrieve XBurst CPU information: -84
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> And now I can't even manage to short the pins properly, so next update will probably be in like, 3 years or so. I hate those pins. 
> 
> Where does one go to look for usbboot error codes? I'll have a look at the usbboot sources... do I even know where those are? :mumbles to self:

The pin issue sucks big time, but it usually works after awhile. Personal record is 2hours of attempts :)
You can check this page for some minor info http://jlime.com/wiki/index.php/Installation_nanonote_flashfail


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