[maemo-users] Update 4 (SUCCESS) HORROR - Maemo wont boot after Power Kernel

[From: Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail]

If I could I would definitely take you the phone my self, I would like to
spend some time there.

I flash the eMMC version, then the PR.1.2 version for USA.

SUCCESS.
f(t)

Thanks Kimmo,

2010/6/18 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>

> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:55 +0200, ext Thomas Tanner wrote:
> > flashing the firmware image completely overwrites everything
> > from the kernel-power package. just reflashing the kernel
> > would have been sufficient if it was a kernel problem:
> > flasher-3.5 -f --flash-only=kernel -R -F <firmware-image>
> > but it seems that something else is the cause (broken home?).
>
> I can check this if you bring the device to Helsinki, Finland :)
> /var/log/syslog could also have something if you have syslogd installed.
>
> > Modern Linux system don't need nor use a /lib/modules/current link.
> > kernel-power fixes the broken /sbin/preinit so that it also uses
> > "uname -r" to look up the correct modules.
> > Therefore every kernel that is reflashed will find its own modules.
>
> Ok, cool. It's about time..  (my desktop Linux is from 2008)
>
> -Kimmo
>
> > On 18.06.10 13:42, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> > >> Then it reboots, shows the flashing orange led. then the sequence of
> > >> balls as normal.
> > >
> > > I guess. Haven't tried that.  The problem could be that the kernel
> > > modules are still for the power kernel version, so flashing the PR1.2
> > > kernel is not enough...  If you can boot it in some way, you can fix
> the
> > > symlink to point to the right kernel modules.
> > >
> >
> >
>
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