Re: Debian on my tablet?

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@minaslivre.org>]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:35:22PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> From Android root, I did: `ls -R /' and could read all - I think - the Android
> filesytem.  I found busybox within /system/bin, but there doesn't seem to be
> any zImage.  Besides, the only *.img file is:
> /system/etc/firmware/modem_1_wg_n.img.  I ran extract-ikconfig on to it, but
> the output was:
> 
>  extract-ikconfig: Cannot find kernel config.
> 
> .  To continue going through the tutorial, I still need the following:
> 
> 1) base system address, i.e. `where the RAM begins';
> 2) zImage file;
> 3) what the author calls my-boot.img.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rodolfo

As I said, try:

adb ls /dev/block/platform/
$XXX=directory_you_found_that_likely_ends_at_0
adb ls /dev/block/platform/$XXX/
adb dd if=/dev/block/platform/$XXX/boot | dd of=boot.img
file boot.img