[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Starting 770 in lower runlevel?

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Mathias Uebelacker wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>         
>         i`ve still Problems with my device. After Problems flashing
>         OS2006 i
>         can`t go back to OS2005, the device boots, shut down, reboots
>         and so on.
>         Is it possible to start the device in a lower runlevel without
>         GUI. I`ve
>         no chance to use xterm and other usefull stuff without a correct
>         booting
>         device.
>         
>         Mathias
> 

I'm not sure this is possible but you can set the boot device to mmc via 
flasher and boot from mmc card with some sort of recovery root fs 
prepared. It can be even a copy of normal working rootfs from flash with 
few changes (like /etc/fstab). Then you can mount internal flash 
partitions and repair it.

See
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/users/6041?search_string=boot%20from%20mmc;#6041

If you have linux desktop available you can prepare the card from 
desktop. There are instruction in the wiki how to extract fiasco image 
(use flasher) and how to mount jffs2 filesystem.

Frantisek