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Old 10-15-2012, 01:13 PM   #678
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Originally Posted by adi23 View Post
Hello,

I have a Kindle Touch and all partitions were erased (including the u-boot partition). I have attached a serial port cable to the kindle and i can successfully connect it with putty.

I have tryed to run MfgTool with Diag mode and i can see in putty that the boot process fails becouse The Board Id and S/N are blank.(this happens before loading u-boot, which doesn't exist anymore anyway)

I need to know how can i flash the partitions using the serial port when everything was wiped out from the kindle?

Thank you
You didn't erased U-Boot (because it's located in special "hidden" partition). <later EDIT> I was most possibly wrong. Now I know, that evil fastboot comand (eraseall) wipes even U-Boot (both of them: "primary" U-Boot and bist U-Boot) without asking for confirmation. </later EDIT>

Well, but you definitely did erased your Board Id. And U-Boot now doesn't know how to initialize RAM (as shown by log in your next post), so it couldn't proceed further.

I guess, one of the ways to recover system would be building of custom U-Boot (from Amazon sources) where selection of RAM initializing code will not depend on Board Id, but rather will be "hardwired".
Spoiler:
Then load it through USB downloader mode. Fastboot is included in U-Boot, so with fastboot you'll should be able to write rootfs back. Then load into that rootfs (again, you'll need custom U-Boot) and re-write Board Id and Serial # with idme tool.

Now, the bad part of my advice is that I will not made such the U-Boot available for you (i.e. I will not compile it for you). Sorry. It's also just a hypothetical way (I didn't tried it by myself), so it could fail in reality. But it shouldn't.

Oh, but there is an easier way U-Boot also provides command idme:
Code:
idme    - Set nv ram variables
idme <var> <value>
    - set a variable value
idme ?
    - print out known values
Available variables for setting values: serial, accel, mac, sec, pcbsn, bootmode, postmode. I guess, you should set serial and pcbsn.

Last edited by eureka; 12-22-2013 at 05:33 PM. Reason: new knowledge
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