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ArchiMark 2012-06-01 02:55
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1215740)
+1 to what geneven said. Backupmenu is absolute lifesaver in such situations, and if you haven't had it (and habit of doing backups often) before, be sure to install it, after You set everything up on device, after sad reflash.

/Estel
Agree 100% with your points about backupmenu and making frequent backups....probably been about 2-3 weeks since I did backup though....

:o

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 13:46
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
I just reflashed my N900, according to messages in terminal, it appeared to have gone well.....

However, after reflashing, I still can't boot up completely.....so, after discovering the thread about 'rescueOS', I thought I'd give it a try to see if it would allow me to boot up completely....unfortunately, I have not been able to get rescueOS to work right...so, back to 'square one' as we say....

Should I try re-flashing maemo again?

Do you think I need to re-flash the emmc too?

Thanks!

sifo 2012-06-01 13:55
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
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i saw many members here hate to reflash because of they need hours to re-install the needed applications so i decided to upload a backup contains all what you need but you must have 4 GB emmc or more ;) im gonna upload it as soon as i can :)

./sifo

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geneven 2012-06-01 14:20
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1215961)
I just reflashed my N900, according to messages in terminal, it appeared to have gone well.....

However, after reflashing, I still can't boot up completely.....so, after discovering the thread about 'rescueOS', I thought I'd give it a try to see if it would allow me to boot up completely....unfortunately, I have not been able to get rescueOS to work right...so, back to 'square one' as we say....

Should I try re-flashing maemo again?

Do you think I need to re-flash the emmc too?

Thanks!
If you suspect flashing didn't work right, go ahead and flash again. I almost always flash the Emmc too.

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 14:35
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 1215980)
If you suspect flashing didn't work right, go ahead and flash again. I almost always flash the Emmc too.
Thanks for the input.....

OK, will flash Emmc too....

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 17:32
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Hit another snag......

When I try to flash Emmc. I get a device busy message...per the wiki, I then did the modprobe command and then tried flashing again, but get same busy message.....

Any suggestions????!

Thanks

:confused:

misterc 2012-06-01 21:13
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216071)
Hit another snag......

When I try to flash Emmc. I get a device busy message...per the wiki, I then did the modprobe command and then tried flashing again, but get same busy message.....

Any suggestions????!

Thanks

:confused:
did you flash the EMMC 1st?
considering the fact that your N900 doesn't boot up anymore, this may not matter, alas.
that's where it would be handy to have a +real+ backup / restore tool (i.e. partimage) that would allow you to start Rescue OS, indeed, and either use earlier images (both of / and /opt) of your own functioning device or, at default, from any other working N900 :eek: :confused:

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 22:18
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216138)
did you flash the EMMC 1st?
considering the fact that your N900 doesn't boot up anymore, this may not matter, alas.
that's where it would be handy to have a +real+ backup / restore tool (i.e. partimage) that would allow you to start Rescue OS, indeed, and either use earlier images (both of / and /opt) of your own functioning device or, at default, from any other working N900 :eek: :confused:
Well, considering that my initial rootfs flash didn't work out, so can't boot up, flashing EMMC next is like doing it first, right?

Agree that it would be nice if there was better way to deal with this...

misterc 2012-06-02 00:06
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216167)
Well, considering that my initial rootfs flash didn't work out, so can't boot up, flashing EMMC next is like doing it first, right?

Agree that it would be nice if there was better way to deal with this...
at the risk of sounding stubborn, did you try to connect it to a LostDOS PC with NOKIA Suite installed (since flashing rootfs)?

ArchiMark 2012-06-02 01:14
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216201)
at the risk of sounding stubborn, did you try to connect it to a LostDOS PC with NOKIA Suite installed (since flashing rootfs)?
No, didn't do that.....don't know what LostDOS PC is....think I know what NOKIA Suite is though...

i thought you can use NOKIA Suite with Windows PC?....if so, I can possibly try it that way.......


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