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

[From: Mathias Uebelacker]

do you know an easy way to clean the Flash Memory on the 770 without
using the control panel. reflashing with booth OS takes no affect. The
Device reboots with booth OS. 

Mathias

Am Mittwoch, den 21.06.2006, 16:50 +0200 schrieb 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