[nikiml]

Hi all,

I have had a dead Glo for some time and finally got the courage to open it.

Started by backing up the sd card with dd and got read error.
badblocks showed me that the rootfs is corrupted but the recoveryfs and the koboreader are not.

This would explain why the factory reset did not work.
I backed up the recoveryfs partition and the partition table just in case,
and fixed the bad blocks with "e2fsck -c -c".

the mounted rootfs had only few folders(much less than the recoveryfs),
so I decided to pop the fixed card back in and try the factory reset one more time.

The recovery seemed to work - I checked the md5sums of all files listed in the fs.md5sum and they were all matching, except that I was missing one file in the rootfs: usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/Gothic MB101.otf.

The problem is that the Glo still does not start.

I cannot find any log files in the rootfs that would give me an idea what is wrong, but I find it unlikely that the device has had 2 hardware failures simultaneously.

I would appreciate any ideas about how to continue.

Can any one post the dump of the sdcard partition table?

pointers to log files, sd card image, etc would be great.
I have read that debian install is possible, has anyone attempted debian install in the rootfs and is that going to reveal any hardware problems.

Thanks in advance