Thread: Help with kernel flasher
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2008-01-06 , 08:56
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#4
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Flashing has to be done from a desktop. You didn't actually think you could overwrite a running kernel with another one, did you?
You can. Kernel is unzipped to RAM at boot time, kernel flash partition sits unused while it runs.
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#kernelflasher
Actually the kernel flasher is 'safer' than initfs flasher. Initfs partition is rewritten while it is mounted and dsme and bme run from it.
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