Help! Cannot boot into Titan Power kernel anymore.. :(
 

Hi all,

I was just playing around with the USB host mode installation and found that it required a Kernel upgrade (to Titan's Kernel). Went and did this - but now, the multiboot will not work anymore into Titan's Kernel! It does work however, with the standard kernel.

When I try booting into the Power Kernel, it comes up with a Guru Mediation error - N900 cant flash kernel, required files not found.

Can some kind soul please help with this situation? I have read all the threads and done as much as I can short of doing a reflash. Already tried the apt-get install --reinstall power-kernel power-kernel-boot command as well. It went to further update but still having the same issue.

Went to check my /boot/multiboot and have the following files:
vmlinuz-2.6.28-omap1 vmlinuz-2.6.28.10power40 vmlinuz-2.6.28.NIT.06

The three .item files are:
Nokia-N900-02-8:/etc/multiboot.d# cat 00-Maemo-2.6.28-omap1.item
ITEM_NAME="Maemo 2.6.28-omap1"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28-omap1
ITEM_MODULES=ext3

Nokia-N900-02-8:/etc/multiboot.d# cat 01-Maemo-kernel-power40.item
# AUTOGENERATED by multiboot-kernel-power
# !!! DON'T EDIT !!!
ITEM_NAME="Maemo kernel-power40"
ITEM_KERNEL="2.6.28.10power40"
ITEM_MODULES=ext3

Nokia-N900-02-8:/etc/multiboot.d# cat 11-NITDroid-mmcblk1p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item
ITEM_NAME="NITDroid 2.6.28.NIT.06 on mmcblk1p2"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.06
ITEM_MODULES=ext3
ITEM_DEVICE=${EXT_CARD}p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro

Can some kind soul please help with this? I am on PR1.2 (I believe since I never got any notifications to upgrade to 1.3).

Thanks in advance..
Ben

Re: Help! Cannot boot into Titan Power kernel anymore.. :(
 

Looks like your modules might be gone, check if you have a directory 2.6.28power40 in /lib/modules/

EDIT: or maybe the bootimg is missing, check the contents of /boot/ as well

Re: Help! Cannot boot into Titan Power kernel anymore.. :(
 

Thanks kopele..

I just checked and the power40 directory is no longer there - however, there is now a power46 folder (which I think was from the upgrade).

In the boot directory, I have the the multiboot subdirectory and zImage-2.6.28-maemo40 file.

How can I fix this?

Thanks.,.

Re: Help! Cannot boot into Titan Power kernel anymore.. :(
 

Try reinstalling kernel-power-modules, kernel-power-flasher, kernel-power-bootimg, multiboot-kernel-power with apt-get install --reinstall.
This should install the missing parts of power46 and you'll be up to date.

Re: Help! Cannot boot into Titan Power kernel anymore.. :(
 

Yah!! Thank you very much kopele.. Worked!

Was starting to get the *****s with it since I run it at 850Mhz most the time and going back to stock is just too unusable.. thank you so much!

Re: Help! Cannot boot into Titan Power kernel anymore.. :(
 

No problem, glad that worked.
Also, you should upgrade to PR1.3 if you haven't already.
In Settings -> About Product:
PR1.3 is 20.2010.36-2
PR1.2 is 10.2010.19-1

EDIT: Although I'm not sure if upgrading will mess up kernel power installation. Worst case scenario you'll have to repeat the above process, plus the kernel-power package in addition to the ones I listed earlier. Hope this helps!