Thread: bootmenu initfs flasher updated for OS2008
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2007-12-19 , 21:32
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Hmm, that's strange. Yesterday evening I downloaded flasher from the web to N800 with latest firmware and my bootmenu installation works fine. The only difference may be that I have my own bootmenu.conf which may override something. Will try with default bootmenu.sh with no customization. Do you use custom bootmenu.conf or copy one of examples included or have none?

Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
My initial attempts at executing initfs_flash were in fact failing with the message stating "Cannot find initfs.bootmenu.jffs2, something failed, nothing flashed."
This looks like something serious, posting of full output (including extraction via tar) would tell more. Looks like full disk or currupted archive.


Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
Following this, I restored my previous (2007) MyDocs/.documents directory, and then I was able to effect what I though was a successful establishing of my bootmenu.
Again full output of such "what I though was a successful establishing of my bootmenu" would say more.

Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
But it doesn't work, and now I'm going to have to reflash a third time!
With linux flasher you can restore just initfs so your rootfs in flash (with all applications) is not touched. I think you need to add '--flash-only initfs' to flasher arguments (-f -F RX-34......bin -R) or you can first unpack firmware (flasher-3.0 -u -F RX-34...bin) and then flash just initfs.jffs2 (flasher-3.0 -n initfs.jffs2 -f) to be safe from flashing full firmware in case you make some typo with full firmware image as a parameter.

Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
Will I have to abandon my mmc clone? Thanks and regards, Jim
No. Your clone on mmc is 2007 or 2008 system?
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