Thread: How to set up OS2007HE (Flash+MMC), OS2006 (MMC)
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2007-10-31 , 12:56
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#5
Originally Posted by Bundyo View Post
only thing you need is change the bootmenu.sh in the fanoush's initfs_flasher dir before flashing the menu. Make no mistakes though
it is better to create separate bootmenu.conf just with menu definitions, do not edit bootmenu.sh directly as it is easier to make some unwanted mistake there. it is also relatively safe to edit it in-place in /mnt/initfs/bootmenu.conf without reflashing (unlike with whole bootmenu.sh)

Originally Posted by Bundyo View Post
If you make a mistake - boot from flash and reflash with the correct menu. If you made a bigger mistake (i don't know if the device will continue to boot if bootmenu.sh has incorrect syntax), use the fanoush's flasher bootmenu image to put on the correct menu
It may be good idea to backup initfs.orig.jffs2 and initfs.bootmenu.jffs2 crated by initfs_flasher to card or PC so you can recover it later with nokia linux flasher over USB when something goes wrong and device does not boot to the menu.

If in-place editing of bootmenu.sh (i.e. directly in /mnt/initfs) results in corrupted/truncated file (can happen due to how jffs2 works when free space is low, that's why having separate bootmenu.conf is better idea) you may try to hold escape key instead of menu key early on boot, this skips reading/using bootmenu.sh altogether.
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