[Arm-netbook] Livesuit vs Phoenixcard differences

[Juan Carlos Mendez]

Hi Tom,

     I mounted the boot filesystem  (the correct offset is  0x400000  ) 
but by default there isn't a boot.ini file...  I created one with the 
content

[system]
    erase = 1


... but still no succes.

Well, I'll try to do serveral more tests....

Thanks for your time.


El 27/06/12 08:53, Tom Cubie escribió:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Juan Carlos Mendez 
> <jcmendez at locatel.biz <mailto:jcmendez at locatel.biz>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello again Tom,
>     I regret to saythat 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 itdoes not work either(at least for me)
>
>
> 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 ?
>
>
>
>     El 25/06/12 12:01, Juan Carlos Mendez escribió:
>>     Lot of thanks, Tom.
>>
>>     I'll test it and I'll feed back with the results..
>>
>>
>>
>>     El 25/06/12 10:27, Tom Cubie escribió:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Juan Carlos Mendez
>>>     <jcmendez at locatel.biz <mailto:jcmendez at locatel.biz>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         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.
>>>
>>>
>>>         Greetings,
>>>
>>>             jky.
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