Need help flashing my freerunner for the first time

[Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes]

> Re: Need help flashing my freerunner for the first time
Congratulations - it wont be your last :)

On my machine dfu-util is quite picky about when to work, my workflow is
like this:

Start freerunner in flashing mode, watch /var/log/messages till USB
device is there...

run:

sudo dfu-util -a kernel -R -D file (or whatever)

over and over again, until it reports an error "device lost after reset"
(or something like this)

run:

sudo dfu-util -l

over and over again, until it lists several lines of devices.

then run the first line again and it THEN it works. Flashing the rootfs
will occasionally fail, just do it again.

When I say over and over again it is often 20-30 times :)

This may seem akward, but you get used to it :)

Cheers,
- Gunnar


Adam Jimerson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Shawn Trash Thompson
> <mokowatch at projektenterprises.com
> <mailto:mokowatch at projektenterprises.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Adam Jimerson wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Shawn Trash Thompson
>     > <mokowatch at projektenterprises.com
>     <mailto:mokowatch at projektenterprises.com>
>     > <mailto:mokowatch at projektenterprises.com
>     <mailto:mokowatch at projektenterprises.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Adam Jimerson wrote:
>     >     > I just got my freerunner today and when I have been trying to
>     >     flash it
>     >     > with OM 2008.12 now that it is charged (comparing my Home
>     and the
>     >     > images on the wiki I don't even think it came with 2007
>     installed),
>     >     > according to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing I should
>     not set
>     >     > up a usb0 connection but dfu-util doesn't seem to be working
>     >     with it.
>     >     > The "dfu-util -l" only sees it half the time and when I try to
>     >     backup
>     >     > the Kernel with "dfu-util -a kernel -R -U good-kernel.img" the
>     >     > freerunner just times out.  The host that I am using is openSUSE
>     >     11.1.
>     >     >
>     >    
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>     >     Adam,
>     >      Are you using the super-user account?
>     >     -Shawn
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>     hopefully someone else will have more info then, other than not using
>     root priv or equivalent I'm out of ideas, all I've seen issues with is
>     having multiple DFU capable devices but that doesn't sound like the
>     problem either.
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> 
> Apon further investigation I seems like I have 2008.xx installed my
> screen looks like this http://openmoko.com/download.html, but the
> settings app does not load, the loading screen comes up but nothing
> lanches so I can't configure it to my wifi and I can't seem to find
> terminal if it is installed by default.
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