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I'm having trouble.
I grabbed kernel-power40's deb
extracted the fiasco from it
unpacked fiasco via flasher
renamed zImage to uImage
ran pybuilder.py using the provided u-boot.bin
FROM PC: flasher -k combined.bin -l -b
Result: Error: can't find kernel image

What have I missed, overlooked, or botched?
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edit: left one step out
 
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Don't rename zImage to uImage. You need to convert it with u-boot's mkimage tool. It is explained where the files are downloadable from:

http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/maemo/u-boot/
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That did it, thank you very much.
 
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Please help me .I do not what happen but a penguin show up while I was installing a full charged battery it do not time out, I can not turn off my n900 and if I remove the battery and reinstall it the penguin show up on power on.
How can go back to maemo , when I typed the command

run mmcboot it said wrong image format comand
ERROr : can not get kernel image

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The problem with u-boot (beyond the forcing-it-on-us debacle that happened in titan's 44 kernel which was rather unfortunate) is that it breaks together with multiboot.

And I really don't fancy having to have one OS per SD card and having to put SD cards in and out. To me, multiboot was way more versatile; it gave me a boot menu with OS options, I could even have maemo-vanilla, maemo-power, meego and nitdroid on the same machine with no tedios SD card swapping.

What are the actual benefits of u-boot? I don't accept the wear-on-flash-memory argument at all (are you gonna boot and switch OS's thousands of times? really?)

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Simple: multiboot depends on maemo, so it does not support any kernel/any OS and if you brick the maemo mtd partition (or multiboot-flash a kernel that is not able to mount maemo and/or execute it's userspace) you are not able to boot any other OS.
 
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Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
The problem with u-boot (beyond the forcing-it-on-us debacle that happened in titan's 44 kernel which was rather unfortunate) is that it breaks together with multiboot.

And I really don't fancy having to have one OS per SD card and having to put SD cards in and out. To me, multiboot was way more versatile; it gave me a boot menu with OS options, I could even have maemo-vanilla, maemo-power, meego and nitdroid on the same machine with no tedios SD card swapping.

What are the actual benefits of u-boot? I don't accept the wear-on-flash-memory argument at all (are you gonna boot and switch OS's thousands of times? really?)

/Z
There is nothing that stops you from using boot.scr feature (partition 1) or make a custom u-boot binary with something like 'run mmc1' or the likes. The benefit is than multiboot is that multiboot sucks for anything that doesn't boot from NAND.
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I've just uploaded a new uboot-pr13 that explictly conflicts with kernel-power and kernel-maemo and kernel-hostmode.
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I'm not sure where to put this information since it involves several programs, but uboot saved me from an inconvenient incident just now.

I received authorization requests from someone identified as Marcy Raptor. At first I didn't know where they were coming from. Eventually I discovered they were from Skype and I picked a menu item that blocked them.

But before that I noticed that my calendar program listed the birthday of someone called -- Marcy Raptor. I spent a few minutes getting rid of it.

Then I noticed that some parts of my Desktop-Switcher icons were missing, icons that would be a hassle to recreate.

Just recently I had backed up everything with uboot. I restored and everything seems fine now.

I am using the latest of Titan's kernels, Matan's modified desktop.
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I've just uploaded a new uboot-pr13 that explictly conflicts with kernel-power and kernel-maemo and kernel-hostmode.
Just out of curiosity, isn't there a way to coordinate this stuff before it goes public? Or am I missing something?
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