[2008.X] Flashing the kernel live

[Tore Martin Hagen]

Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:05:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
>   
>> I was just wondering, is there a way to flash the kernel live (i.e. with
>> the software still running)?  Is the boot partition (it's on the NAND Flash
>> somewhere) something I can just mount and override a file?  Or do I have to
>> use dd?  Or is there some trickery I can do with dfu-util?
>>     
>
> opkg upgrade manages this so I'd say you could ... using a tool like mtd or
> such, I really don't how, just that it does :)
>
>   
I don't have my phone right here, but you can do a
  cat /proc/mtd
and it will list out which mtd partition that contains the kernel. Then 
you do
  flasheraseall /dev/mtdX
  cat yourUimage.bin >  /dev/mtdX

And thats it

Tore

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