Thread: bootmenu initfs flasher updated for OS2008
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2008-01-23 , 08:42
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Originally Posted by Zebee View Post
That makes sense (and I should have thought of it, aggh!) THe kernel is /mnt/initfs/linuxrc?

So I need to have a copy of the 2007 kernel image available to 2008 and the 2008 image to 2007. Do they need to be in /mnt/initfs, or can they be elsewhere?
If you don't use custom kernel, dafault kernel can be extracted from firmware .bin image via
Code:
flasher-3.0 -u -F firmwareimagename.bin
Get the zImage file.
Originally Posted by Zebee View Post
Is there a kernel flasher for the tablet, or only one for the PC?
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#kernelflasher
Originally Posted by Zebee View Post
And which initfs? Presumably it does matter if it's a 2007 or 2008 one, where are they and how do I tell the difference?
initfs.bootmenu.jffs2 in initfs_flasher directory. This is created when you install bootmenu. You probably have two of them one in each OS200x installation. Just copy them to the other system or have both on SD card. Both initfs and kernel can be on SD but the flashers needs to be in internal flash. Then you can run something like
Code:
kernel_flasher/kernel_flash /media/mmc2/zImage-OS200x
initfs_flasher/initfs_flash /media/mmc2/initfs.OS200x.jffs2
and let it reboot and select matching OS200x item for current kernel and initfs version.

Unfortunately you need to confirm flashing of both parts. In next version of flashers I will add -f option to disable the confirmation.
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