My initial attempts at executing initfs_flash were in fact failing with the message stating "Cannot find initfs.bootmenu.jffs2, something failed, nothing flashed."

Following this, I restored my previous (2007) MyDocs/.documents directory, and then I was able to effect what I though was a successful establishing of my bootmenu.

But it doesn't work, and now I'm going to have to reflash a third time!

Will I have to abandon my mmc clone? Thanks and regards, Jim

I can confirm problems with the initfs flasher with the new OS2008/n800 image. I've tried it a couple times and it will never boot from the mmc card, using the default settings as before. It will fail to boot from mmc and boot from flash but then I find I can't mount anything in the second SD slot
Larry

Hmm, that's strange. Yesterday evening I downloaded flasher from the web to N800 with latest firmware and my bootmenu installation works fine. The only difference may be that I have my own bootmenu.conf which may override something. Will try with default bootmenu.sh with no customization. Do you use custom bootmenu.conf or copy one of examples included or have none?

I tried it once with my own customized bootmenu.conf and once with the default. It failed in both instances.


This looks like something serious, posting of full output (including extraction via tar) would tell more. Looks like full disk or currupted archive.

The only way I can post this is to repeat the (failing) effort, which I am understandably loathe to do.

Again full output of such "what I though was a successful establishing of my bootmenu" would say more.

Ditto, my reluctance.

With linux flasher you can restore just initfs so your rootfs in flash (with all applications) is not touched. I think you need to add '--flash-only initfs' to flasher arguments (-f -F RX-34......bin -R) or you can first unpack firmware (flasher-3.0 -u -F RX-34...bin) and then flash just initfs.jffs2 (flasher-3.0 -n initfs.jffs2 -f) to be safe from flashing full firmware in case you make some typo with full firmware image as a parameter.

This is clearly a safer way for me to proceed -- if I entirely understood it, which I don't. I'm afraid you'd have to be a bit more explicit, i.e. give me the actual code language and place of the command. Sorry.

No. Your clone on mmc is 2007 or 2008 system?

Hmm, that's strange. Yesterday evening I downloaded flasher from the web to N800 with latest firmware and my bootmenu installation works fine. The only difference may be that I have my own bootmenu.conf which may override something. Will try with default bootmenu.sh with no customization. Do you use custom bootmenu.conf or copy one of examples included or have none?


This looks like something serious, posting of full output (including extraction via tar) would tell more. Looks like full disk or currupted archive.



Again full output of such "what I though was a successful establishing of my bootmenu" would say more.



With linux flasher you can restore just initfs so your rootfs in flash (with all applications) is not touched. I think you need to add '--flash-only initfs' to flasher arguments (-f -F RX-34......bin -R) or you can first unpack firmware (flasher-3.0 -u -F RX-34...bin) and then flash just initfs.jffs2 (flasher-3.0 -n initfs.jffs2 -f) to be safe from flashing full firmware in case you make some typo with full firmware image as a parameter.


No. Your clone on mmc is 2007 or 2008 system?

This is clearly a safer way for me to proceed -- if I entirely understood it, which I don't. I'm afraid you'd have to be a bit more explicit, i.e. give me the actual code language and place of the command. Sorry.

You can flash full firmware from linux PC via
You can flash only initfs part by adding --flash-only initfs so whole line is
This will, restore initfs without losing any other data.

Anyway, I am happy it worked fine after all. Still, restoring backup should not affect anything. Well except when it is so large it fills whole flash leaving not enough space for initfs flasher to create initfs.bootmenu.jffs2 image.

Thanks to others for confirming that it works for them.

My mmc clone will now not allow me to access wi-fi and the internet -- it doesn't recognize my router, and my codes are still all right -- and the directional toggles in the D-button don't work