Thread: Dump an image of root and eMMC.. how to?
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abill_uk is offline abill_uk
2010-05-19 , 15:19
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Originally Posted by rash.m2k View Post
I think you misunderstand me. The image we boot from on the micro sd card is a clean install (after all it's just there incase anything goes wrong).

So you have a clean install of maemo on your micro SD card - you backup your N900 rootfs using this clean image to access the mtd from here and also restore the mtd from here.

But yes the whole point would be to be able to boot from micro sd card and also backup and restore both opt and rootfs.
Hmmm you know i am not so confident that even booting successfully from sd would give you the means of acomplishing a re-flash and also too many weird things are happening and so easy for the image on the sd to become corrupt and in any case doing it the way you suggest even if possible is kind of a long winded flash lol, i think far easier to create a .bin and use flasher in one hit job done, or maybe your thinking a different line here and i am just not understanding you.
My idea is to actually re-flash the last known working os in entirety to get you back before it went wrong and as simple way as possible for user to do as zehjotkah said in his very explanitory post erlier the .bin to include everything, apps and all personal data etc etc..