Re: thecus n2100 armel lenny upgrade, won't boot
On Sunday 31 August 2008 10:16:32 Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Joost Yervante Damad <joost@damad.be> [2008-08-31 10:09]:
> > Thanks for the quick reply both.
> > I just discovered however that the thecus was still running 2.6.25-7 ?! I
> > tried chrooting in again and flash 2.6.24 initrd and vmlinuz and it said
> > it did it, but after a reboot it is still running 2.6.25-7 again. Looks
> > like flash-kernel is not working when still in an initramfs I guess...?
>
> Maybe you hit this bug:
> #488565 - should check status of /dev/mtdblock* before trying to write to
> it
>
> You have to make sure /dev/mtdbock* exists before using flash-kernel.
I guess so!
I just manually loaded my 2.6.26 initrd and kernel via tftp and the system
boots fine!
Thanks Martin, Tobias for helping me out.
(Cc:-ing debian-arm again, so other people also know what was the issue)
Joost
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