From GA:
You know, I thought I understood multi-booting with multiple partitions, but I guess I don't. If I run the SSU while booted to my SD partition, why would the SSU have any knowledge of my flash partition? Why would I need to bother with Fanoush's initfs_flash on the SD parition?

I's there a howto or wiki that describes what a NIT does when it powers up?

My simplistic understanding is:
* The hardware looks to a hard-wired address where it finds the equivalent of 'bios" and executes it.

* The "bios" performs basic hardware checks and then passes control to a boot loader. Code from the boot loader locates the kernel, loads it and executes it to start the boot proper. (In a non-cloned NIT it would just load the kernel and start the inits for the rootfs, inittab, etc. In a cloned NIT it displays the boot menu)

*After the kernel loads, it initializes device drivers etc. Once it is completely initialized, it finds the root filesystem, mounts /.

What am I missing?

Thanks for the hand-holding;

$teve

It doesn't have anything at all to do with your flash partition. initfs, kernel, bootloader and the config are all separate partitions from any rootfs partition you boot from, so when you install the SSU update on the SD partition, it overwrites the bootmenu on your initfs partition again.

Both internal flash and SD use the same initfs, kernel, bootloader and config partitions.

Well, thanks to the currently 292 posts regarding the ssu update, I have sucessfully updated flash and mmc boots. Had lots of errors along the way, but as I read through all of this, managed to slowly but surely get rid of all of them. My eventual fix for at least half of the problems I ran into here? Disable all but the minimal repositories, apt-get clean, install -f, and update. Fixed all of my bugs except for a couple having to do with install tools still showing in applicaiton manager (uninstalled) and some canola bugs (uninstalled and reinstalled) Everything seems stable now, and thanks to everyone who bothered to explain in details the problems they were having, and everyone else who helped explain solutions, reasons, etc...

Thanks, but what new stuff will that give me? I'm just wondering why I would update the initfs? Stability? Speed? Racing stripes?

flash-and-reboot flashes the kernel and initfs.

as my fresh from a reflash and ssu uname -a shows what looks to be the same kernel as before the ssu, im not sure it would provide much.

Yes, but what will it give me that I don't have already?

Ok, completed the SSU to my SD part, boot menu back.

I did a cursory 10 minute Google and ITT search (also looked in the wiki), but did not find an answer to this question.

How do I change my terminal prompt back to what I had before? It now says Nokia-N810-23-14. I knew how to do this two months ago ... rats.

EDIT: Just change the hostname in /etc/hosts (used nano) . The terminal prompt displays \h:\w\$ , from $PS1 variable.

Thanks,

Steve

Quite possibly some important futex fixes, but I couldn't say for certain at this point.

How long does the update take? I've been stuck on the "Installing" pop up and the progress bar hasn't moved in hella days... (about 15 minutes )

Edit: Well the whole thing took approximately 50 minutes... it seems to get stuck about halfway through, then again when the progress bar is full before its reboot. Have patience, for me everything went well and I received the "Successful Upgrade" pop-up after it rebooted itself.
The new version is also reported in the "About Product" screen from control panel.