[Arm-netbook] Livesuit vs Phoenixcard differences
Juan Carlos Mendez
jcmendez at locatel.biz
Thu Jun 28 11:50:27 BST 2012
El 27/06/12 14:35, Tom Cubie escribió:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Juan Carlos Mendez
> <jcmendez at locatel.biz <mailto: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..
Nop, on the SD card boot filesystem there is no files.
Is in the boot filesystem of the Img file i want to flash where there
are boot.axf, boot.ini, sprite.axf, script.bin .... and serveral
filesc.. But the boot.ini on this filesystem was my first option when
you point me to the "erase = 1 " feature....
> [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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