in deed m r c, but you'd think that would work, but no such luck

gav

If you know what the command you need is, and you have only one command with those beginning characters, you can use Ctrl+i - the shell interprets that as a tab key. So you can use that to auto-complete the command you're trying to run, hopefully.

If fn+key isn't working, you probably don't have the right keymap loading. *Shrug* You might be missing the loadkmap binary and/or the right .kmap file in the right paths. But with auto-complete you should be able to get by.

you sir! are a god send!, i'm on the mmc1 now , right now to copy the bootfile over and pray

gav

for some reason its not finding anyfiles at all on my sd card o.O which is odd i ls and all i get is the test mkdir's i made, something makes me thinks this isnt actually the sd card?

gav

Hey, really sorry I completely forgot this thread - I hope your N900 has been fixed or at least you haven't been badly distressed if not... The N900 doesn't mount the eMMC (/home, /opt, and MyDocs) or the microSD cards that early in the boot process - I.E. when you first get to the command prompt, those devices aren't mounted.

Your eMMC might be mounted if you're using multiboot, because I'm not 100% sure what multiboot does/doesn't do by default (been a while since I looked at their boot scripts, and I didn't look that info up at the time.

Anyway, I must apologize because I can't guide you further - I don't actually know HOW to use the "mount" command properly - I'm only getting around to learning it myself currenty. If I get the time to fiddle some more soon, I'll post here how to do it.

thank your replying, no luck yet im affraid, not found a way as of yet to mount mmc, i shall keep on trying

gav

it should be something along the lines of "mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/". mmcblk0p# is the internal memory (/home /opt MyDocs). mmcblk1p# should be the microsd card. whatever you have on it then should be under /mnt/

well still no luck, ive going to repurchase an n900 in september, currently using an n80 at the moment as my 5800 is currently in a bowl of rice [ yeah guess why] sigh, pity its still broken.
anyone got any final ideas?

exuvo: i tried that but auto complete on that bash shell doesnt always auto finish to what i want and since you cant manually enter numbers im once again stuck =/

sorry for bumping this up

gav