[Arm-netbook] Livesuit vs Phoenixcard differences

[Tom Cubie]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Juan Carlos Mendez <jcmendez at locatel.biz>wrote:

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> Hello again Tom,
>     I regret to say that the solution  you had pointed did not work.
>
>   Looking at the guts of  boot.axf file (which I guess is the boot loader) the
> "erase" option  does not appear to be supported
>
> However, I found a similar option called "erase_flash"  inside the
> sprite.axf  file   but it does not work either (at least for me)
>
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> i think you should change the boot.ini file that on the sd card. You can
mount the boot fat file system on PC and change it, the offset for the
first partition is 21MB or 36 MB, you can try to mount with -o loop,offset
option.

> any more ideas ?
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> El 25/06/12 12:01, Juan Carlos Mendez escribió:
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> Lot of thanks, Tom.
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> I'll test it and I'll feed back with the results..
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> El 25/06/12 10:27, Tom Cubie escribió:
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Juan Carlos Mendez <jcmendez at locatel.biz>wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I don't know if this happens to someone else ...
>>
>> When updating the firmware on several A10 devices I have found a
>> significant difference when using the Livesuit application via usb cable
>> or using the Phonenixcardapplication.
>> While the first one allows you to format the flash memory (answering yes
>> to the popup question ) ...  the second one does not allow this option
>> (or at least I have not found it) so the result  is that only overwrites
>> existing dataso  it can happen that not all data are reseted.
>>
>> Does anyone know (hey Mr. Cubie) about an option to force the memory
>> flash format using the sd card  build with the Phoenixcard tool?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>  Add erase=1 in [system] section of nanda/boot.ini, answer from the
> author.
> Sigh, no one knows, only himself.
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>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>     jky.
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