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Diablo not compatibile with my N800
Well I just went back to Chinook as Diablo would not work on my device. It would not boot after the flash and when it did it will reboot spontaneously from time to time. Also, when I have finally managed to clone the os to the mmc (unit hanging on me prevented me from completing the process in a reasonable time). The boot menu was corrupted with an additional entry to boot from mmc2 which had N/A next to it. I have tried evertyhing, rd-mode trick, reformatting both cards (and repartitioning again). Tried to reflash probably several times. It still does not work. After reflashing back to Chinook everything is fine again. Seriously I do not know what might the problem be but it either means that my n800 is faulty or there are some n800 devices with some unique characteristics which are not compatible with Diablo. Hard to say. And yes I have used the n800 flash
md5sums below Code:
786a0150ca29e6688b3dbcbe14bacbd1 RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.51-3_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin, Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 spiryt spiryt 141226447 2008-07-12 13:11 RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.51-3_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin, Any ideas guys ? |
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Did you.try not restoring anything from backup?
Did you try without mmc cards? |
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yes I did try without both cards and no I haven't try to restore anything from backup. I have looked in dmesg after enabling rd-mode and it looks like sapwood server is segfaulting in each case. I did not try to get the core dumps though. In the meantime I have experimented a bit and I got it running somehow although I do not know how long it will last until it goes bonkers again. It looks like internal flash is somehow corrupted on my device. For the moment what I did is to extract rootfs from flashfile, mounted it under linux , cloned the whole os to mmc, flashed the tablet and managed to boot after several attempts, flashed Fanoush's initfs and now it's happily running from mmc.
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Did you try to flash Diablo, plain, to the internal memory, no mods, no cloning, no dual boot?
Just the FIASCO image and nothing else? |
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What you said about the internal flash being corrupted shouldn't happen.
The fact that it works with the older OS is weird. I would try to get the unit checked at a service point and replaced, if it still under warranty. |
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Anyway i would check the warranty with some local consumers association: it might be that you still have some rights. Beyond that, you could try to flash the Diablo rootfs and initfs on top of the old one, after disabling lifeguard reboots. This will use the old kernel and you probably will not be able to use the modules from the new initfs, but at least should tell you if the user space can boot. |
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-disable lifeguard reboots flash: -old bootloader -old kernel -new initfs -new rootfs |
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and when i pressed "Submit Reply" i've been presented by what is probably the most stupid message that could have been conceived on a forum: "the message you entered is too short, make it at least 10 characters long" |
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Oh my ...!
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I am still not quite sure what is going on. I have managed to get it running again yesterday, installed a bunch of apps. The tablet worked all right yesterday and the half of the day today. The moment I took it to work it started being temperamental again. I restated it once and then it would not boot. Either from vanilla flash or from the mmc. It would not even restart with the lifeguard-resets on but either hand with the blue progress bar in the middle or funnily enough the bar would go all the width of the screen and then the unit will hang. Pressing the power button would not restart the tablet. Only removal of battery and putting it back would get me at the boot menu again. It would not boot even after that. I gave up and went home. Just for kicks I connected it to my charger and voila, it booted straight away from flash. Then I have tried to boot from mmc card and it worked. I no have absolutely no idea of what the problem might be. Faulty flash ? But then the mmc boot would work. Faulty RAM, a possibility ? Faulty battery ? I am not sure what the battery malfunction effects would be (save from the device going up in flames)... any ideas guys ? Any comments will be appreciated
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If you could, apt-getting sysklogd would be useful. jffs errors are reported in the syslog.
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I will try it at once. I am on diablo know. Would I have to build a deb in the scratchbox ? btw here's my dmesg when booting from flash Code:
in ARM MMU, v=0xe0fdf000, sz=0x1000 Code:
1. The text that you have entered is too long (16258 characters). Please shorten it to 10000 characters long. |
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and the continuation
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[ 92.656250] menelaus 1-0072: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 2800 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x29) |
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Here's the content of /var/lib/dsme/lifeguard_resets
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Nokia-N800-23-14:~# cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets Code:
[ 1.070312] Disabling unused clock "uart2_ick" |
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and the second part of mmc boot dmesg:
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[ 17.531250] omapdsp: IPBUF configuration |
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[ 1.281250] VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly.
This doesn't look good to me. Partition table is changed in diablo, maybe new locationis corrupt? |
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No, that's fine. It initially mounts read-only, and only remounts read-write later after it determines that the filesystem doesn't need fscked.
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BTW, bad medicine posting your MAC like that.... it's cool to scrub that sort of info from logs.
Might try booting with no SD cards in? It seems to be flailing around a lot setting the MMC bus voltages; don't know that that's a problem, though. |
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was actually thinking of that. I have tried already with or without the cards, does not make the difference.
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now it just rebooted out of the blue. perhaps I should try the fridge treatment.
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Guys, could I ask you a favour? If you have a moment can you take a peek at your dmesg messages to check if your N8x0 is also playing the MMC voltage dance ? I am starting to have a suspicion that all my problems might be related to a faulty battery after all.
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Not like that, no. I only have one card in ATM. My 16GBer is in the laptop getting files dumped on it, but nothing like that from the 1GBer...
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I have a spare E61 at work. Will swap the batteries yesterday and try it. I think there is a very good possibility that this is battery related as all the power n800 gets is runningh through the battery. That could explain why both and mmc boots fail sometimes (the mmc filesystem was prepared on my linux box, cloned from rootfs.jffs2 extracted from a flash and transferred to the sd card in a card reader - I md5sum'ed the whole lot and compared pc vs card - all checked out fine.
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If good wishes help -- I hope it's a battery problem :)
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Now i Switched it on and it's saying in red at the bottom of the screen
Rescuing software update, please do not iterrupt. This is with a new battery |
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Ok here's what happened.
I have put in a new battery from Nokia E61. The system booted from mmc without a problem. I then restarted and tried booting from flash. The message I mentioned in previous email have appeared. But then the unit booted fine from flash. I have however found those two lines in the dmesg log which are a bit worrying. Code:
66.929687] JFFS2 warning: (1269) jffs2_sum_write_sumnode: Not enough space for summary, padsize = -108 |
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oh, btw, it looks like the "Rescue system update" message wiped off the initfs as I am no longer presented with the boot menu but the unit boots straight from flash. Gosh it's getting creepier and creepier.
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The jffs2 errors are ok, they should be leftovers from some of the previous random resets.
If nothing else shows up, you can forget about them. The "Rescue system update" is completely new to me. |
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Ok I believe I have sorted the problem. It was after all one of the memory cards. I do not know whether one of them was damaged or simply partition table got corrupted but the N800 is running diablo with one card without a problem. As soon as I insert the second one, it starts going maaad. Very strange and very worrying and it should be noted for all those users who think that their device malfunctioned when in fact it was a memory card. Thank God for that! and thank you very much guys for your comments and suggestions. Without those I would have been without ny N800 now. Thanks
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Few other revelations. For some reason my system will not boot if there are more than one partitions on each of the cards. It looks that if I have only single fat32 partition on either of the cards everything works fine. The moment I put in a card with more than one partition the hell breaks loose. Have you managed to successfully clone os to MMC for diablo ?
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I rebooted for the first time in forever. (Actually, my battery ran down because the charger I plugged it into wasn't actually plugged into the wall outlet). On reboot, I got the rescue message in red. Now, my multi-boot is gone. I started to restore it, but held off until I read more. |
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