[maemo-developers] Requesting addition to HowTo_EASILY_Boot_From_MMC_card wiki page

From: Frantisek Dufka dufkaf at seznam.cz
Date: Fri Mar 16 23:58:21 EET 2007
मयंक जैन (makuchaku) wrote:

> Since this page deals with modifying the initfs, the method to undo
> this should also be mentioned...
> (Thanks to <s-ndh-c> on #maemo to help me out with this)
> 1) Unpack the flasher image
> ./flasher-3.0 -F blah.bin --unpack
> 2) Flash with the initfs image
> ./flasher-3.0 --initfs initfs.jffs -f -R
> 3) Reboot
> 
> This will bring your N800 to the original initfs image.
> 

Yes, this is the most safe choice. Alternatively you can flash the 
backup jffs2 image created by the bootmenu initfs flasher before it 
modifies the initfs. And you can use the initfs_flash script to flash it 
directly from the device.

Frantisek

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