Thread: Replacing/upgrading a Mini (or other internal) SD card with Linux
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Old 05-05-2013, 03:04 AM   #27
davidfor
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
In the case of the Glo, that is what happened when I tried a factory reset.
Since this thread started, I had the "luck" to need to do the investigation.

The factory reset runs "/etc/init.d/rcS". This:

- installs U-Boot and kernal using dd commands
- reformats the other two partitions
- unpacks "/upgrade/fs.tgz" to the rootfs
- unpacks "/upgrade/db.tgz" to the data partition

That is essentially what is done when the firmware is updated, minus the reformatting.
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