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Originally Posted by twowheels
Would I need to build/buy a serial cable? What's your warning about factory reset about? (do you think that the system partition might also be corrupted, causing the reset to brick it?)
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The "reset" seems to only remove your custom settings but I am not sure that is all it does.
The serial cable will not be needed unless I break it for you.
SSH over Wifi should be enough access, SSH over USBnet would probably be easier to use.
The process I have in mind:
Copy out all of mmcblk0p4 - -
That is the entire partition that contains the user data (that 3G of file space)
Repair any problems with that copy of the image on something non-Kindle. Doing file recovery as required. Keeping copies of the file system as we go.
Then, with a known good copy of what will do back onto p4, temporarily use p4 for our own purposes.
The major problem is that the main file system can not be checked and repaired while in use, so we need something else to use as the root filesystem while repairing the main file system.
Alternately...
Copy out the media that holds the main file system, do the check&repair off-kindle.
All of which would be much easier if we had the "K3 rescue system" mentioned in the "Damn shell reboot" thread.
Which we do not have (yet) but might have by the time you are ready to deal with this problem. It isn't that major a change from the "stock" K3 kernel + startup scripting.