Hello,

anyone want to test new feature - usb networ recovery mode? Currently it is tested only with 770.

Get it from http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.beta.tgz

There are 2 more question when preparing initfs image

Telnet has no password and runs /bin/sh directly.

Dropbear has usual root password and scp should work too. If you have dropbear already installed in roots then server rsa and dss keys will be copied to initfs too, otherwise keys will be generated on each boot (a bit slow).

default IP address is 192.168.10.1 but you can change USB_IP variable in bootmenu.conf

When in boot menu press Home key (the one with house :-) and then connect USB cable. For exiting this mode remove cable and pres Esc (circular arrow :-)

For usb networking setup instructions see:

Windows XP, 2000
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/usbnetworkingwinxp/ (just download and install the .inf file)
Linux
http://maemo.org/development/documen...king_bora.html
http://maemo.org/development/documen...etworking.html

Let me know if you have some suggestions. I guess it would be useful to have GNU tar, mtd-utils and maybe also 0xFFFF flasher in the initfs too.

EDIT: oops, scp did not work due to missing symbolic link to scp, fixed now. Redownload and reflash or when booted and logged into initfs just run
or when the device is booted completely, run as root
EDIT2:
N800 versions added, binaries for N800 are linked statically so they are bigger but should work with any system. Haven't tested on my N800 yet.

Just to let you know - I have tested it also on N800 and those static binaries work fine so you can log into N800 over telnet or ssh just fine. However there is one improtant issue - it looks like dsme in N800 initfs doesn't like when lot of time is spent in BOOT device state inside initfs, currently it powers off the device after minute or so (perhaps some safety mechanism?). I hope we could find some workaround to keep it happy.

I have latest HE 2007 in my 770. I don't need USB networking. Do the old boot from mmc instructions still work for me to get dual booting?

Yes, it is still the same. You just need to answer something else then 'yes' to those additional two questions if you really don't want it to be included. But you can let it in just in case, it won't affect anything if you don't use it.

Is this compatible with last HE 2007 (4.2007.36) ?

look like initfs have been updated and is different from 2006 OS and last HE 2007.

Kos

Oh, is it? I don't think so but I have flashed just the rootfs. I think release notes says that it uses old kernel and initfs. Can you post /mnt/initfs/etc/initfs_version? As for compatibility - just try it, it will refuse to modify initfs if current version is unknown.

Just checked. Still the old one from 2.2006.39-14 firmware (osso-n770 2006-38 1).

version number is the same but, when I unpack the FIASCO image initfs has different size.

Also, from the wiki they say the new initfs is based on the RX-34 initfs ..

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/os20...b17f7042bef87e

anyway ... will try to mount the inifs tonight to see if they are really identical.

Kos

Oh, interesting, so you bother to read outdated info (clearly says so on the top of the page) buried deep in the wiki but you don't bother to read release notes for current version http://maemo.org/news/announcements/...189171468.html ? Nice one :-)

your right here. The last initfs is not based on RX-34 and was reading outdated info..

Nevertheless initfs 3.2006.49 is clearly different from 4.2007.36.

I used tar --diff to show the difference of 4.2007.36 over 3.2006.49.

Kos