Thread: *** Kernel Panic: Can't reflash anymore after Backupmenu ***
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rm3l is offline rm3l
2012-03-13 , 21:39
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Hi folks,

Could anyone of you give me hints on how to solve the following issue.
I wanted to give a try to Nitdroid on my N900, and everything worked fine.
After that, I wanted to restore a previous backup, using Backupmenu, (which I've already performed successfully in the past).
This time however, I did not realized my battery was almost empty, and the restore process suddenly interrupted.

When I tried to reboot the phone, it gave me the following kernel panic upon the boot process:
Code:
...
Mounted root (ubifs filesystem)
Freeing init memory: 140K
Warning: Unable to open an initial console
Failed to execute /sbin/preinit. Attempting defaults
kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
Anyway, the big problem is I cannot flash anymore the device:

This is the ouput of the flasher:

Code:
slashme@rm3l-LINUX:~/Desktop/N900$ sudo  flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
[sudo] password for slashme: 
flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)

SW version in image: RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_MR0
Image 'kernel', size 1705 kB
	Version 2.6.28-20103103+0m5
Image 'rootfs', size 185728 kB
	Version RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_MR0
Image 'cmt-2nd', size 81408 bytes
	Version BB5_09.36
...
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
	Valid for RX-51: 2601, 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606
	Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
	Valid for RX-51: 2601, 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606
	Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
	Valid for RX-51: 2601, 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606
	Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
It remains stuck at this point, the phone keeps rebooting and showing the kernel panic message and it appears it is not recognized anymore as a new device in my linux laptop.

Anyone can help? What can I do? Is there any other way to reflash the device?

Thanks y'all.
Last edited by rm3l; 2012-03-13 at 22:11.