The answer may not be what was hoped for but here it is; try a bigger hammer.

Re-clone. That's the bad news for those like me with a huge install. The good news is that you'll be booting clean off the external SD agian.

I've been checking Fanoush's site regularly since the night of my first post when I chewed the dualboot. The jump too Diablo required getting the latest initfs package after which it worked perfectly; S.U.E I believe is the correct technical term when one, such as myself, does not check for the latest version first.

With the last updates to Diablo's initfs-flasher and kernel-flasher, the initfs_flash simply needed to be rerun to rebuild the boot menu. Thinks broke when I updated the kernel-flasher.

In the end, I had to re-clone the system. I bought another (and larger ;D ) microSD and used that to keep my original Diablo build image untouched on the original. It means much more leg room on the fat32 (type "c" in sfdisk, I just spend an hour remembering how important that is versus type "b").

Now I'm going to go mount the old SD on another machine and copy over my home directory and previous fat32 partition.

Figuring out a way to update initfs-flash and *-kernel-flash without having to do a clean re-cloning would be fantastic. The script that automates the process is nice and I hear rumours of a repository package that now automates the process but I keep my mounts under /mnt and both use different default mount locations so for now, I stick to ye' old manual process.

I love that Nokia is running Maemo more like a rolling distro. it's much less disruptive having only the two packages that break the dual boot. I just have to figure out a better way to deal with those two packages; not updating those two packages to the latest available would drive me nutts but rebuilding my install and config each time isn't much better.

(Now, to find out if the battery indicator is still not reading the power level once I get my old system iso'd off the smaller SD. I also want to investigate the SD slot hidden under the N810's plastic covering, it looks like there may actually be a removable SD hidden under there still.)

Fanoush, thank you. Your dual-boot menu is what makes the Nokia a truly usable device.