Thread: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-04-13 , 16:53
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Originally Posted by pasko View Post
Hi.
I have a bricked device I can flash without problems,but is not booting in any way. However I have been able to boot the ubiboot kernel and see the exported partitions.
Is it possible to either:
1. Install the backup from another device (including the filesystem, partitions, all )
Yes, pretty easy to do. All you have to do, is first boot the alive device with ubiboot, note down the partition layout, and "tar -cvf" the partitions to external mount or network drive.
Then ubiboot the broken device, create partitions and restore the data from tarfiles.
There's just one caveat; the dead device must not have broken CAL or boot partitions on the mtd NAND, since there is no way you can safely rewrite those areas under Open Mode.


Originally Posted by pasko View Post
2.- Boot the device on Sailfish without Harmattan installed in the device ?
That's even easier, with ubiboot you do not need harmattan at all if you choose not to use it.
You can even have your own partition layout, even delete all partitions and create just one to hold your SailfishOS, to get easy access to full filesystem
 

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