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Old 11-27-2011, 05:36 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by vicinc View Post
btw I tested the pablob golden ermine with the new partitioning is working flawlessly. updated to all mine and gapps, no probs.
It's good to know it worked for someone else!

I have started to think that one of the most practical ways to do recovery would be to get u-boot to boot from the SD card, and make a SD-card-based recovery image.

Advantages:
  • No need to change the mtd device mappings in the device.
  • Robust, it would only stop working if u-boot stops working (it would not depend on the flaky NAND of these devices)
  • As a side effect, implementation of this might also allow for booting alternate systems from SD.

Disadvantages:
  • It would require an SD card (but most people use their Edge with one., so that won't be a problem).
  • Requires that someone finds a way to enable SD booting from u-boot, which might not be hard or might requiring recompiling u-boot (which would make things quite hard, if not impossible).

It would be nice to have a framebuffer-enabled console for the system's kernel, that would make life easier as it would allow to use a shell-based script to manage recovery.
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