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2010-12-12
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My sig is old... now running at stock speed 
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2010-12-12
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Originally Posted by joerg_rw
Well, I'm so glad you're wishing me good luck, aren't you
You know the wear won't heal?
The above statement sounds like complaining about your hurting tooth and saying "but meanwhile I use a toothbrush regularly"
/j
I've still some other things to try, including full reflashing of root and eMMC. Hope the problem is only functional not hardware-related.
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2010-12-13
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@debernardis:
I'd suggest connecting via ssh, go in and format the optfs partition. You could also try using DD to zero it first; try to make the eMMC controller mark any bad blocks as bad and work around them.
Once you've got a fresh ext filesystem on there, you can run BM's restore mode to restore your image via tar.
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In other news, I may have found the reason some people cannot use BM and just get the bootmenu-n900 menu - I got an E-Mail from someone who had this problem and they found out that /usr/bin/find (which is used by bootmenu to find all .item files) was replaced with a symlink to the optified GNU version. As /opt/ isn't accessable at that time, all find calls would fail, backupmenu wouldn't be run, and only the default bootmenu prompt would be shown.
I'd suggest connecting via ssh, go in and format the optfs partition. You could also try using DD to zero it first; try to make the eMMC controller mark any bad blocks as bad and work around them.
Once you've got a fresh ext filesystem on there, you can run BM's restore mode to restore your image via tar.
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In other news, I may have found the reason some people cannot use BM and just get the bootmenu-n900 menu - I got an E-Mail from someone who had this problem and they found out that /usr/bin/find (which is used by bootmenu to find all .item files) was replaced with a symlink to the optified GNU version. As /opt/ isn't accessable at that time, all find calls would fail, backupmenu wouldn't be run, and only the default bootmenu prompt would be shown.
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My projects: BackupMenu - OS Backup & restore | Video: Flashing your n900(LiveCD)
My devices: N770 + 8GB SD card soldered internally, N900 with 8GB SD card + Custom OC(125-950 typically).
OC freqs: 0:22,90 125:22,90 250:28,180 500:30,360 550:32,400 600:34,430 700:39,430 750:41,430 805:45,430 850:47,500 900:50,500 950:54,500 1000:58,500 1100:67,520 1150:71,520
My projects: BackupMenu - OS Backup & restore | Video: Flashing your n900(LiveCD)
My devices: N770 + 8GB SD card soldered internally, N900 with 8GB SD card + Custom OC(125-950 typically).
OC freqs: 0:22,90 125:22,90 250:28,180 500:30,360 550:32,400 600:34,430 700:39,430 750:41,430 805:45,430 850:47,500 900:50,500 950:54,500 1000:58,500 1100:67,520 1150:71,520
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2010-12-13
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I will check if that's my issue and report back.
Was there ever any work done on making it compatible with multiboot? I've been using it, since it provides a clean shell on boot, if required.
EDIT: Yes. It works, after I removed the symlink and dropped the full gnu-find binary into /usr/bin/ - please send a thank you to the kind chap that advise this. I had a feeling it was an out-of-place binary, but didn't have time to track it down.
Last edited by hawaii; 2010-12-13 at 03:04.
Was there ever any work done on making it compatible with multiboot? I've been using it, since it provides a clean shell on boot, if required.
EDIT: Yes. It works, after I removed the symlink and dropped the full gnu-find binary into /usr/bin/ - please send a thank you to the kind chap that advise this. I had a feeling it was an out-of-place binary, but didn't have time to track it down.
Last edited by hawaii; 2010-12-13 at 03:04.
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2010-12-13
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#445
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Originally Posted by joerg_rw
e, e, for extras,erase is suboptimal! you easily bounce 'e' key. Make that anything different. I'd even suggest to have only UPERCASE command keys in extras menu, so you need to hold shift to 'confirm' you meant to do that.
Look here and then here and here for answers 
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2010-12-15
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Just so you guys know, I'm not going to be developing for a little bit - The right ~250px of my n900's screen is cracked and full of nice colorful lines, and I'm not going to be doing a bunch of work until I get a replacement installed. Also, I've got some non-maemo projects I'm working on...
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My projects: BackupMenu - OS Backup & restore | Video: Flashing your n900(LiveCD)
My devices: N770 + 8GB SD card soldered internally, N900 with 8GB SD card + Custom OC(125-950 typically).
OC freqs: 0:22,90 125:22,90 250:28,180 500:30,360 550:32,400 600:34,430 700:39,430 750:41,430 805:45,430 850:47,500 900:50,500 950:54,500 1000:58,500 1100:67,520 1150:71,520
My projects: BackupMenu - OS Backup & restore | Video: Flashing your n900(LiveCD)
My devices: N770 + 8GB SD card soldered internally, N900 with 8GB SD card + Custom OC(125-950 typically).
OC freqs: 0:22,90 125:22,90 250:28,180 500:30,360 550:32,400 600:34,430 700:39,430 750:41,430 805:45,430 850:47,500 900:50,500 950:54,500 1000:58,500 1100:67,520 1150:71,520
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2010-12-15
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Sorry to hear that, Robbie. I'm still working on getting the ubi image generation done, but my free time is short at the moment, I'm afraid
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2010-12-15
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#448
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Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st
When inside Maemo, X11vnc is a good way to escape the screen and keyboard. No help when the script is running, though.
Just so you guys know, I'm not going to be developing for a little bit - The right ~250px of my n900's screen is cracked and full of nice colorful lines, and I'm not going to be doing a bunch of work until I get a replacement installed. Also, I've got some non-maemo projects I'm working on...
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N900 dead and Nokia no longer replaces them. Thanks for all the fish.
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N900 dead and Nokia no longer replaces them. Thanks for all the fish.
Keep the forums clean: use "Thanks" button instead of the thank you post.
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2010-12-21
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Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st
Well, you can -try- to restore it the old way, but you may end up with an unbootable device that needs a reflash.
Or, you can try to mount the images. The optfs is just a EXT2 image; it can be mounted easily on any linux system with a couple commands(mount -o loopback..... for a start)
The RootFS is a bit harder; I haven't done it myself. But, your customizations should mostly be in the OptFS, so...
Well, if anyone can help me, I had made a backup on v1 before I sent my n900 in for warranty repair , and when I got it back the app was updated to v2.
Being that I could not use the old backups with the new version, I have already installed everything that I wanted and had previously installed.
I just cant figure out how to mount the images I've already got. I want to get some snes and n64 saves off of them. Can someone help me? I'm using a linux live disc: knoppix.
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2010-12-22
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Originally Posted by lordnibbla
As root:
I just cant figure out how to mount the images I've already got.
Code:
mkdir /tmp/n900 mount -o ro,loop /path/to/20101107-backup-optfs.img /tmp/n900/
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