2008/10/19 Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I haven't tried this yet, but when I've booted from SD (a bigger one than > > the original 512 MB that's delivered with the FR), why shouldn't I be > able > > to erase and flash /dev/mtd kernel and rootfs like I'm doing with uboot > > environment? I'll give it a try next time I've mashed up the Om2008.8 > that > > I > > have currently in NAND. > > Yes, if you've booted entirely off the SD card then changes to internal > flash wouldn't hose your running environment. I've been imagining a flash > util plus kernel in a uImage on SD, net result that you stuff the flash > util uImage and the rootfs, kernel uImage or whatever on the SD with it, > boot the FR from SD and it pops up the flash menu.
Now a GUI is a mini-overkill. It's just 2 commands, flash_eraseall and nandwrite, from the shell prompt. You boot from SD (it's always good to have a different distribution on the SD card), download the images and just flash them.
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