Howdy All,

So I just got my N900 in the mail last night and lo-and behold I manged to brick the darn thing in less than 24 hours. I've been searching around online but I cannot find instructions anywhere on how I can re-flash the device so it will be like how it was when I got it. How would I go about doing this?

How I managed to brick the device was in my attempt to make it more usable I was moving my /usr partition to reside on my /home instead of / because / is stuck at a piddly 100 megs (so I could not install anything else). However when I removed the old /usr after copying it over the device promptly hard-locked on me and now fails to turn on.

So a better solution - is there a way I can mount the file systems from the phone on my laptop so I can create a system link between where I moved /usr to on my /home and where it should reside so it will boot again for me?

Hoping someone can help me out here... I'm hoping to get the device back online ASAP

Thanks,
~Jeff Hoogland

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware
There you go

Hi Jef;
Unfortunately Nokia n900 doesn't have hard reset mechanism. Therefore you have to flash the image
To do so, please read the article in the link: 1)https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

2) There was a discussion about Hard Reset/Image Flash in this fourm: please read here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ight=rom+flash

Exactly what I said in my post?

Thank you much. I actually just found that same page on Google some five minutes after posting here

Any chance anyone knows anything about my second question there? Is there a way I can mount the filesystems from the device on my PC?

Thanks,
~Jeff

sorry pal i was in quick reply and didn't see your post

If you're installing from Extras the large data goes into /opt, which leaves you plenty of room to install applications. There's no need for you to attempt to move your /usr directory elsewhere (and plenty of good reasons why Nokia didn't pick that route in the first place).

Easy answer: Don't; it's not necessary.

Its 100% necessary if I want to be installing standard Linux applications which by default install to /usr (among other places, most of which are located in the root partition). Half the reason I bought this device is because it is compatible with 18,000 debian packages that are out there.

I must say - the default file system setup on the N900 is by far its worst feature. I can understand why it is setup the way it is for the basic phone user - but it should have an option for those who want to tinker to readjust the partitions to their pleasure IMO

~Jeff

I totally agree with you Jeff