Hello, and questions

Carlos Camargo cicamargoba at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 16:36:24 EST 2010


You can change or remove the initial s,lash screen, recompiling the
kernel, but in your case the splash screen reflect a " kernel panic"
so, as David suggest, you must erase the whole nand first.

Carlos


On 2/18/10, Carlos Camargo <cicamargoba at gmail.com> wrote:
> je je
> please don't misunderstand me Jose, of course the main goal of this
> project is spread the free software and hardware philosophy, and we
> need solve all kind of questions, but, if we have a dedicated list for
> user we can build a good database for common problems.
>
> Welcome to our community
>
> Carlos
>
> On 2/18/10, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <david at tuxbrain.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jose :)
>> (Carlos meanwhile there is no userlist let me answer here :P)
>> I remember this happens to me to, and finally we have solved whipping
>> out whole nand and starting over.
>> Here is the command line sequence:
>> sudo usbboot -c "boot;nerase 0 4096 0 0"
>> sudo usbboot -c "nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n"
>> sudo usbboot -c "nprog 1024 openwrt-xburst-uImage.bin 0 0 -n"
>> sudo usbboot -c "nprog 1024 openwrt-xburst-uImage.bin 0 0 -n"
>> This way will work for sure
>> but it's no recomended to use it as usual to your nand health.
>>
>> Regards
>> David
>> 2010/2/18 Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch at gnu.org>:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I just got my Ben Nanonote from the Tuxbrain guys (thank you :)).  The
>>> machine came flashed with the latest image available from qi-hardware.
>>> Alsa is not working in that image, so I wanted to switch to 2010-01-13
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> I followed the instructions on how to flash the machine using the
>>> reflash_ben.sh script.  Everything was ok.  After I got the "done" from
>>> the script I connected the battery again and tried to boot the new
>>> system,
>>> but the system got frozen in the Open WRT splash screen... for more than
>>> 15 minutes.  Then I switched off the machine by removing the battery.  I
>>> was not able to boot the new image.
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> - The first boot after flashing the machine is expected to be slow but,
>>> more than 15 minutes?
>>>
>>> - How can I disable the splash screen?
>>>
>>> Thanks :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>
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> Carlos Iván Camargo Bareño
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> Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
> Universidad Nacional de Colombia
> cicamargoba at unal.edu.co
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-- 
Carlos Iván Camargo Bareño
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
cicamargoba at unal.edu.co




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