Bug#562205: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-orion5x: Not more mtd device => impossible to flash new kernel

[Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>]

On 24/12/2009 16:47, Eric Valette wrote:

> > If loading the module doesn't work, I see
> > two possibilities to recover your machine:
> >
> > - maybe you can use kexec to execute a good kernel and then write it
> > to flash.
>
> What is the correct procedure and what kernel is supposed to work?

kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-orion5x --append='root=/dev/ram 
console=ttyS0,115200 :::DB88FXX81:egiga0:none' 
--initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-orion5x
Unsupported machine type: armv5tel

So I guess the kexec path is nearly dead or?

-- eric