UNBRICKED !!!!!

In /sbin I had a copy of the original getbootstate (getbootstate.nokia) *with* the correct file permissions (executable bit).

So after booting to /bin/sh I first did
That didn't work, until I realized that cp doesn't replace the file permissions of the destination. Oh well.

So I did the same using mv. The N900 booted perfectly. Seems that even the microUSB port is now a bit more relaxed, because it *seems* to be charging (using Pali's in-kernel module).

I'll ssh into it right now and copy stuff from it (it is so heavily modded that I need to somehow make a copy to document what I've done..)

(if anybody needs some context as to why I'm writing this: start here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=437).

Cheers and thanks again especially to Fabry (who gave me the suggestion to type commands directly in the u-boot console), Hurrian, Misiak, Pali and freemangordon.

I'll proceed now to design a backup system with U-boot and various kernels (with *short* names!) and script files in the VFAT partition.