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Old 07-12-2012, 07:26 PM   #40
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That should be it. You would need to reset the device, i.e. again hold power slider for >15secs and *not* keeping Vol- pressed. It should start up now, at least it should run the kernel. The power led should at least blink green for a short moment, screen should be reset.

However, if your Kindle didn't have a broken kernel in the first place - and I'm not sure you ever indicated that it definitely had - you now just fixed what got broke earlier, but not the main culprit (which might be broken partition table, broken uboot, broken whatever else there is).

The latest version at least also checks the serial number (with "info" command), indicating if that section got corrupted. But there is more that can be broken. And I'm not yet aware of backup images for those parts. I guess those will be coming up in the near future, though. The new "nbd" server feature might also help when further examining the device. But without any "known good" backup images it's hard for you to compare and analyse. So I suggest to wait a bit.
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