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Old 10-25-2011, 02:02 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by perldude69 View Post
I have a simalar issue with my PE. I think I killed the filesystems with a random act of dd and getting my if and of mixed up. I can't connect to my PE with adb, but I can use the u-boot terminal (Thanks nikkie for the pics!). Here is an excerpt from the log that I think describes the problem. Not able to mount root. I think I shot the partition table.


Does anyone have an idea about how to manually start adb services from the u-boot menu? Is it even possible?
The other route I was thinking about was to connect the usb to a Linux box and run tftpboot from the u-boot and have a script fdisk the PE and rewrite the partition tables. Would this help vicinc too? Does anyone have the details of the partition tables so I can give it a try tonight after work?

Many thanks,
Jim :-)
Yeah, I've seen your post Jim. I'm not sure how to fix the problem for either you or Vicinc. It is not possible to start ADB from u-boot, it needs the android os to actually be running.

As it turns out, the various flash drives are not partitioned - fdisk doesn't know what the crap to do with them. However, you probably can share a kernel with tftp and boot that kernel from u-boot. That might work. The other route is to use busybox from u-boot to dd a new image onto that drive from your flash drive. I'm not really willing to start dd'ing things to my partitions though, since I don't want to end up in the same place as you two. ;-) I can, however, send you the dd images from my ubi filesystems. I'll try and do that tonight.
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