Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

UNBRICKED !!!!!

In /sbin I had a copy of the original getbootstate (getbootstate.nokia) *with* the correct file permissions (executable bit).

So after booting to /bin/sh I first did
That didn't work, until I realized that cp doesn't replace the file permissions of the destination. Oh well.

So I did the same using mv. The N900 booted perfectly. Seems that even the microUSB port is now a bit more relaxed, because it *seems* to be charging (using Pali's in-kernel module).

I'll ssh into it right now and copy stuff from it (it is so heavily modded that I need to somehow make a copy to document what I've done..)

(if anybody needs some context as to why I'm writing this: start here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=437).

Cheers and thanks again especially to Fabry (who gave me the suggestion to type commands directly in the u-boot console), Hurrian, Misiak, Pali and freemangordon.

I'll proceed now to design a backup system with U-boot and various kernels (with *short* names!) and script files in the VFAT partition.

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

Can you explain a bit more what setup_boot_reason_atag and setup_boot_mode_atag do?

I just wrote on the getbootstate/preinit thread asking you do allow bypassing bootreason and bootmode by using a kernel command line parameter, but just saw this in u-boot, which may (or not) be exactly what I wanted.

Can I do, e.g.
and this will be available in /proc/bootreason so it will be picked up by getbootstate?

If so, my request in the other thread is perhaps not necessary anymore, except for the bypassing of getbootstate by I could take care of that one (maybe I'll make an interactive version of getbootstate, so the user can choose while booting :)

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

Run from uboot console and then boot maemo (from bootmenu or by command). It will write to omap boot table bootreason pwr_key which appear in linux kernel in /proc/bootreason. Same is for env setup_boot_mode_atag. Values are normal and update (there is also test and local, but useless). Normal is normal boot mode and update is boot mode for flashing eMMC.

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

Hello there. I am unable to install Pali's uboot. I tried dpkg -i command but it wont work. It gives the following error.

dpkg: error precessing 1armel.deb (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory

Errors were encountered while processing: 1.armel.deb

I changed the name of the package to 1armel.deb to make it easier to write in command line. All the 3 files in are in ,documents as well as the N900 Internal Memory. What I am doing wrong? Thanks.

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

I guess you're just not typing the name of the file(s) correctly. Try to use TAB auto-completion so that you get the file names right!

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

I think it is more a directory thing.
First you need root rights ( so sudo gainroot or root) is required in advance) But it looks like you did.
So depending on above command, you are located in /home/user or /root. Your deb file is inside /home/user/MyDocs (or maybe /home/user/MyDocs/.documents).
What you need is change to that directory (cd /home/user/MyDocs) or give full path (dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/1armel.deb).
AND autocompletion is always recommended.

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

Thanks peterleinchen. Using the full path for installation did the trick. Rebooted, everything is working fine.

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

Finally maemo autobuilder working again, so I pushed uboot to extras-devel. See first post and vote for packages!

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...2012.10-rc3-1/ and http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...2012.10-rc3-1/ - your votes are counted twice, pali, how did you do that? :D

Re: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
 

misiak, there is race condition in maemo package interface...
As DocScrutinizer already said, web developers do not know what is reentrant programming...