[Arm-netbook] Livesuit vs Phoenixcard differences

[Tom Cubie]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Juan Carlos Mendez <jcmendez at locatel.biz>wrote:

> **
> 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
>
> are other boot files there? boot.axf, script.bin etc..

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