backing up rootfs fails - after 40m FreeRunner continues booting

[Bram Mertens]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Bram Mertens <mertensb.mazda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
> <rask at sygehus.dk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:07:55AM +0200, Bram Mertens wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm about ready to flash a new distro onto the FreRuuner main memory
>>> but since it'll be the first time I wanted to try backing up the
>>> existing distro first.  So I followed the steps on
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Backup .
>>
>>   Which version of U-Boot are you using? DFU Upload was broken at least
>> until 2008-10-17.
>>
>> 2008-10-07      Harald Welte    u-boot: Fix DFU upload in u-boot
>> http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=414367bf5b65942947dd5d569c27d2a8e8e5e562
>
> I wrote it down because I intended to include it...
>
> I'll check when I get back home but this date looks familiar.
>
> As for reducing the backup: I'm trying to create a backup of the
> initial image that came with the device so I'd like to avoid throwing
> stuff away.
>
> So the recommendation would be to update the U-Boot with:
> 1) backup exsitng U-Boot (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Backup):
> Boot NOR boto menu
> sudo ./dfu-util -a u-boot -R -U good-u-boot.bin
> sudo ./dfu-util -a u-boot_env -R -U good-u-boot_env.bin
>
> 2) flash U-Boot
> (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner#Flashing_the_boot_loader_to_the_NAND):
> dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D uboot.bin
>
> Reboot the device to use the new U-Boot but the following reminder is
> not very clear to me:
> "Reminder: You should have boot from NOR first, in order to flash the
> boot-loader in NAND. After flashing succesfully, make sure you reboot
> from NAND's newly flashed boot loader, to benefit from the updates. "
>
> Does this mean I simply have to reboot the FreeRunner to the NOR boot
> menu again, or do I have to boot to the NAND boot menu as
> well/instead?
>
> And from which boot menu should I continue backing up the device?
> From the NOR menu?
>
> Which u-boot.bin should I use?  And where should I get it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bram
>

NOR boot menu shows: U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12 (May  9 2008 - 10:28:48)
NAND boot menu shows: U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12 (Oct  7 2008 - 21:03:06)

so I guess I need to update

According to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/U-boot the latest
bootloader binary builds can be found under
http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/daily/ .  Are these
considered "stable" despite being in the unstable "branch"?

Which version is recommended at this stage?  The latest daily build
(http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/daily/om-gta02/20090420/)
does not contain a uboot image.  The one from 20090419 does.

Regards

Bram Mertens