2011/3/1 Hämäläinen Kimmo <kimmo.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 10:32 -0600, ext Paul Hartman wrote: > ... >> I know reflash of FIASCO image can most likely "fix" it by starting >> over, but I'm curious if there is anyway to find out why it's not >> progressing beyond the 5 dots. Is there a magic key to disable the 5 >> dots or some way to see what's going on during the boot process? Like >> in a typical linux console during bootup. Maybe then, if I can see >> what the problem is, I can boot MeeGo from MicroSD card and edit the >> N900's rootfs and keep my customizations. :) > > You can get the serial console if you manage to get hold of a > development "jig" --- a HW adapter that connects to the battery slot of > the N900 and provides a serial connector. > > Another way would have been having some startup script that sets up the > USB networking (e.g. load g_nokia kernel module and do "ifup usb0") in > every boot --- if you'd have that, you could simply plug a USB cable and > connect over ssh. Here's a log of my attempt so far: - Using the MeeGo rescue initrd I was able to make a dd image of my eMMC partitions over USB - Booting MeeGo from microSD card, in the terminal I was able to make an image of /dev/mtd5 - On my PC, I am able to mount the rootfs ubi image by way of nandsim. Woohoo :) - That's good news, because I now have a copy of everything from my N900 so I have no real worries about losing any files or settings anymore. Unfortunately, I can't see any obvious problems with any of it that might be causing it to stall during boot. - I made the recommended changes to start USB networking, disable the fb-progress animation, etc. - I created a new rootfs ubi image based on the one I have mounted (and edited) on my PC, following instructions at: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=403015&postcount=3 - Flashed my modified rootfs to the n900 and now my N900 won't get past the NOKIA logo screen. I guess I did something wrong, or used the wrong version of ubifs tools? No idea. - I restored my backup rootfs image with flasher. Now the device boots normally again (meaning it's still stuck on infinite 5 dots animation). Now I think I've hit a dead-end. If someone knows the trick to create a working rootfs ubifs that I can flash back to my N900, I'll be happy to learn it. Other ideas I have but with no idea how to do it: Can I create rootfs on SD partition and boot from it somehow? (modified kernel maybe?) Can I mount the ubi rootfs in Nitdroid, MeeGo, Mer, etc booting from SD? I'll try for 2 more days before I give up and flash the fiasco image. I'm still curious to know why it's not booting, though. Sunday will be 1 week since it last worked, I miss using my precious Maemo... :) Thanks for reading, Paul _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
