problem booting to NOR?
Steve Leung
sjleung at shaw.ca
Wed Jul 23 19:21:11 CEST 2008
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:44:57AM -0700, Mike Montour wrote:
> You could ask if there's anyone living near you who could lend you a
> debug board or do the flashing for you. If not, wait for an official
> Openmoko statement of how to repair/replace your phone.
Yeah, the nearest one I've found so far is 150km away. I'll keep
looking.
> A Freerunner without a working NOR flash is basically the same as a
> Neo1973. It's safe to flash a new kernel or rootfs partition; the risk
> of bricking the device is only if you update u-boot itself.
Ah, that's good. Since the wiki consistently mentions NOR flash, it's
not immediatly obvious that this is possible.
Steve
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