Thread: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
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Fabry is offline Fabry
2012-08-04 , 14:47
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Originally Posted by reinob View Post
2. I'm not using U-boot correctly? Please note that I have no possibility to add/update items in U-boot. Whatever I do, it has to be from the U-boot console.
You can always hand write all commands in the console, or create a u-boot script to write on SD and then call it from the console

3. The card reader on the N900 is broken? That would mean USB is shaky at best and uSD broken. Sounds bricky to me.
Try another SD, or reformat it (without Nemo, simple one partition).

Please somebody tell me I'm stupid and there is an obvious solution to this problem!

Alternatively, is there any chance that U-boot 2012.04-1 has support for writing to the N900 rootfs? (just need to chmod +x a file, ability to patch (single bytes of) /sbin/preinit would be also enough for me to unbrick it.

Is there any hope?
Yes there is hope if your SD is readable.
Here three possible solutions:
  • There is an year old backupmenu custom version made for booting with u-boot.
    It uses a meego/nemo as underlying system and therefore no need for a functioning Maemo.
    This version has a framebuffer console and you can edit N900's nand from it.
  • There is RescueOS image (search the thread on TMO) and it boots with u-boot.
  • There is Meego's Rescue image that can be converted to boot with u-boot
Last edited by Fabry; 2012-08-04 at 16:17.
 

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