[Fwd: flash partition 5 - factory, not rootfs]

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Sat May 24 09:47:49 CEST 2008


On Saturday 24 May 2008, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> A friend writes:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: flash partition 5 - factory, not rootfs
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:17:17 -0400
> From:
>
> In GTA01 there are 5 flash partitions, #5 is rootfs. In Freerunner there
> are 6, a new #5 is called "factory" and rootfs is #6.
>
> I may be the only one dumb enough to make this mistake, but I had a
> shell script for running dfu-util and, you can guess what comes next.
>
> My phone still seems to work with part of the rootfs written over the
> factory partition, but I'd still like to know:
>
> 	- what are the contents of the "factory" partition supposed to be;
> 	- where can I get a replacement copy of its contents
> 	(e.g., if it's important, could one of you possibly
> 		dfu-util -U to upload a copy?
>
> Since I might not be the only one dumb enough to make this mistake :-) -

dont worry. you aren't :)

> there's a thousand others out there moving from gta01 to gta02 "soon" -
> maybe this file should be online someplace?

agreed.

>
> Thanks
>
> P.S. I won't ask why the numbers changed, I just won't.



-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech




More information about the openmoko-kernel mailing list