Re: Re: Disturbing reports of upgrades causing flash to be overwritten
Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel |
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On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 17:14 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Purdie schreef: > > 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... > > I think this refers to 'ipkg upgrade' overfilling the flash. That shouldn't be possible. You could potentially overfill it and not leave enough space for garbage collection which would lock the partition up and perhaps cause a booting issue but you should never damage anything enough to require a NAND restore? :-/ Regards, Richard ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642