Can't boot MMC2
 

I can no longer boot from MMC2. The Nokia splash logo appears with "Booting from mmc2... " at the top, but the system just hangs. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

You could try re-installing just the boot menu with Penguinbait's PB or PBEASY command. See the try-here-first link in my dual-boot links below.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

The SD maybe corrupts. That's is why we should backup or clone the SD once a while.

Here is a script I use for various tasks. It is a collection of many howtos here. (IMPORTANT: to clone mmc1 to mcc2 and vice versa you need to partition and format the SD before running the script otherwise the /opt will not be mounted and as a result you will run out of space! Do not use the script if you don't understand it!)

It has to run under root.

To clone SDs ( mmc2 to mmc1 or vice versa) you should run the script from flash.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

If the SSD is corrupt, is the N810 dead?

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

Not SSD (Solid-State Drive), SD (Secure Digital). nhanquy was suggesting your flash memory card may be corrupted. The tablets do not contain solid-state drives.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

Is it ext2?

if so

boot to flash, run as root from xterm

fsck -y /dev/mmcblk0p2 or (1p2) depending setup

See if that fixes it?

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

PB: That command has no impact if the SD card is ext3?

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

fsck is actually universal. It in turn will call fsck.ext2, or fsck.ext3 ....
Therefore, it is transparent to us, users.
So the command is still valid to ext3.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

Well I asked if it was ext2? Geraldko?? Read the first sentence of the quote, you quoted?

And yes it will still fsck a ext3 volume, but it is un-needed as ext3 will use the journal and straighten itself out on boot.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

That worked perfectly. Thanks a lot.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

@PB

Seems you misunderstood me (or my knowledge level). Surely not important, but ...

It's because you asked if it was ext2 that I thought it might mean that the given fsck command was effective only on an ext2 partition (although it turned out that the reason you asked was that its job was being done automatically on ext3) -- for someone who doesn't know Linux, and just uses most the commands by rote, it was a reasonable question. And, hey, thanks, I got an answer!

(Not to mention that between us we got the OP's problem solved.)

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

I take it back. It worked once, but immediately reverted to its prior state on reboot.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

I got it to run, trying to clone mmc1 to mmc2, both are 8G cards. mmc1 partition 6.3/1.5G and mmc2 partition none/1G (just try on an old card). I used option 4, to copy from mmc1 to mmc2, it tried to clone everything into the 1G partition and crashed for run out of space. Does the script automagically partition target SD card? Now I try to partition it first and see how it goes. Thanks for the script,


bun

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

No the script doesn't partition the cards. I was thinking about it but there are too many ways to partition the cards so I let you to do it your way ;)

You can open the script to see that I just copied the commands from various posts on this forum.

Re: Can't boot MMC2
 

What is your system? what did you try? and what is the current status?

bun