opkg update broke kernel / booting

Balaji Rao balajirrao at gmail.com
Sun Jul 27 19:50:55 CEST 2008


On Sunday 27 July 2008 02:39:34 pm Russell Sears wrote:
> I did an opkg update today.  The new kernel package erased the old
> kernel, but the copy to flash must have failed.  uBoot said "wrong image
> format for bootm command", and failed to load the kernel.
>
> I had to use my laptop rebuild a uImage from the ipk file.  Once I got
> the phone to boot, doing a "opkg --force-reinstall install kernel-image"
> failed with "error 2"
>
> Am I the only one seeing this?  Any idea why I'm getting that error?
>
Yes it happens here too. But I don't know what's the reason! :)

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Thanks,
Balaji




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