Re: Disturbing reports of upgrades causing flash to be overwritten

Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:25 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> We've had at least 2 reports now of upgrades causing a machine to be
> unbootable and have to be reflashed from scratch (NAND backup or
> OSPack). Does anyone know of any recent changes which could cause
> overwriting of flash outside of the filesystem? Kernel changes or
> fsprog changes?

A kernel that was too large? Maybe something to do with hrw's logo
changes? We should detect large kernels but...

Richard



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