Thread: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)
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RobbieThe1st is offline RobbieThe1st
2010-11-04 , 05:02
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#192
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Took me a while (mainly I've been distracted) but I figured it out. You're figuring out how to put the tools that allow you to make flashable images from within backupmenu, aren't you?
Bingo.
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Now to just figure out if I can get backupmenu to work underneath uboot (so uboot loads, you pick maemo kernel, and if that loads with keyboard out, it takes you to bootmenu/backupmenu). And then from there, if I can figure out how to run the flasher from on board in a way that flashes the other stuff but NOT the kernel, this device is one step closer to utter perfection.
AFAIK, the flasher'll let you flash the rootfs and the kernel as individual files. Everything else can be individually flashed, but requires a FIASCO image "wrapper" before it'll work.
Though, I'm not sure anything -needs- custom flashing other than the rootfs or kernel.

One thing I'm interested in is that - provided the internal-flasher can be used like the external - would it be possible to do on-the-go kernel image flashing without actually flashing it to NAND? I mean, if you can do a "test boot" with a kernel currently, and not disturb the actual kernel partition, you should be able to end up with multiboot-style booting... and no kernel flashing required.
Of course, u-boot should end up doing the same basic thing, so I'm not sure if it's any advantage, but...
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