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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
Also, the update process for this one is kinda crazy. Instead of running in the proper update runlevel, it just does a reboot and drop an init script to do the real, proper update smack in the middle of the boot process... And the copy of the patched files to the rootfs is done in a 5 retries loop for each file, the kernel flash is done at the end. That may explain the scary >45s pause right at the last notch of the progress bar  . |
Eww. That is a really horrible update mechanism. I'd be very caution about altering anything in the boot up process as a hack if it is doing that as an update mechanism. Any change in the sequence could cause the update to fail part way.