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Originally Posted by cryzed
But at this point the jailbreak stops being "just a single file", right? And how do you force the Kindle software to check for the private key in the new partition? I'd imagine that they usually lie in a set position on the system or data partition, probably the root home folder?
I'd just like to understand the inner workings, of both, the jailbreak and the Kindle OS a bit better.
And what do you mean by "takes care of the back up"? Can I reflash the image whenever I feel like it?
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The jailbreak never becomes more that a single file. Never.
It is only the public key of a key pair used to sign the binary files.
Amazon has one pair for their binaries, we add our own pair for our binaries.
Both Amazon and Mobileread use the Amazon OTA updater.
Most of which is just scripting files, which you can read with any text editor for whatever amount of detail that you want to know.
If you have questions about the command shell script files, the file system structure, or any other *nix related questions. . . .
You can find plenty of documentation on the 'net.
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No.
You can re-flash the image any time the battery is over 70% charged, regardless of your feelings.