Thread: N900 (with CUSS) won't reboot after restored backup with BackupMenu - what tot do?
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2011-09-18 , 06:20
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Thanks for the explanation, tuxsavvy, I was a bit too quick with my reply (should have read the maemo.org page better) ;-)

One more question: I do see there is an option to flash without overwriting rootfs. That would not hurt to try, would it?


Flashing only the kernel from a FIASCO image (expert topic!)

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_t...rt_topic.21.29

If you only want to flash a kernel from a FIASCO image without overwriting your rootfs (e.g. because you tried out a different kernel and that didn't work) you can use the following flasher command instead of the one above:

sudo ./flasher-3.5 -F <firmware-image> --flash-only=kernel -f -R

This will flash the kernel from the FIASCO image and then reboot your device. The rootfs will not be touched by this. NB a kernel usually needs matching modules in rootfs, so odds are your kernel from FIASCO image won't work either, if you messed up the modules in rootfs - you need to flash whole COMBINED/FIASCO image then to recover.

Question is: ... which kernel do I use ? ;-)