04-05-2013, 03:02 AM | #286 |
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Hi!
As you folks can see i'm new here and need a bit of help with 'debricking' a kindle 4. I intend on trying the Live USB stick method, i downloaded the file and read the readme.txt file. One thing i'm not sure of is which iso image i should chose to copy to the efi/boot folder: I'm not sure what's the difference between the Live DVD to the Live CD/DVD (thar relate to the K4 of course) - which one should i download? Thanks in advance! Daniel |
04-05-2013, 08:17 AM | #287 |
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I suppose the only difference is that the DVD contains K3 images as well.
Just use kubrick-k4-k5.zip. |
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04-05-2013, 10:32 AM | #288 |
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I have a KT, made the kubrick CD, shutdown, reboot, I get the option to go into options (bios, where I can confirm CD is first in boot order) and recovery (starts up samsung recovery)
this disappears after a few seconds and I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor, I cannot type. my device is tsstcorp cddvdw sn-208ab, it is not so old or new |
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04-06-2013, 08:37 AM | #291 |
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View the files on your CD - -
If you see only one - - it was burned as a data disk, rather than as a bootable disk. |
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04-06-2013, 09:23 AM | #293 |
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Just so you know... I talked squatlor through doing the entire process manually, he is not in a "holding pattern" on this one.
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04-06-2013, 10:07 AM | #294 |
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Sorry if I did not read that thread fully, but how the HELL did you compress that live usb image???
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04-06-2013, 10:13 AM | #295 |
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Using "zip -9".
The point is that there is almost nothing on the image except for a partition table and a few MB of files - plus almost a GB of zeroes. And these can be compressed to 20 bytes or so. So, no magic here unfortunately - the only important thing was to zero out everything before formatting and putting files Insider tip: That's also how I optimized the main partition images. Simply mounting it, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zeroes; rm /mnt/zeroes" will also allow to pack filesystem images efficiently. That reduced the compressed size about 20-50 MB for each image... And of course, using lzma instead of gzip makes a huge difference too. Last edited by ixtab; 04-06-2013 at 10:18 AM. |
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always take 4~8 hours to get into the diags mode
Excellent jobs!
It makes the debrick work efficently. I burned your boot.iso into CD, and reboot my pc from CD. After flash the kernel and partition successfuly,my KT device reboot,but always take 4~8 hours(mabye the whole night) to get into the diags mode. Is any other problem that my KT has? |
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Look in the log files for information on what it is doing ; and/or Install KUAL and the Dmesg -> Document button which may show information about the problem in the kernel message buffer. Note: KUBRICK does not alter two of the file systems on the user's Kindle (by design). |
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And can I format the kindle disk in "usb model"? Now it has almost ten hours after I flash the kernel img. It still show me the person under tree pic. |
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2) No and I would not assume a solution until we know the problem (kernel logs would help, see 1 above). 3) Keep it connected to external power, it may be in a low-battery state (ignore the charge indicator color - just plug the little sucker in - wall charger would be best). |
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04-08-2013, 03:42 PM | #300 |
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ixtab,
I'm having the same issues with the missing Java files that the other guy was having. I burned a bootable DVD from the boot.iso in kubrick-k3-k4-k5.zip (version 3.3 from the first page of this thread). You'll be interested to know that after the Java file error, I can CD to /media/cdrom/, but LS tells me that directory is empty. No kubrick subdirectory, and no other subdirectories at all. If I browse the bootable CD in Windows, there is clearly a kubrick folder, which contains (among other files) java.sfs. I tried using that diagnostic boot.iso you posted a few days ago at http://ixtab.tk/boot.iso, which succeeded. It told me everything was fine. I can cd to /media/cdrom/kubrick, and an ls shows me that java.sfs is present. Hopefully this helps you! I'm not sure what you did differently between the two isos. I'm going to try to use one of the CD isos, but convert it to a DVD image and burn that instead. Unfortunately, I only have blank DVDs at home, no CDs! |
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