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Lucas Malor · 04-23-2014, 08:50 AM

@uboot: Interesting. Anyway, can't you use a boot partition at all? I know nothing about it and I'm reading an online tutorial. This tutorial creates kernel partitions.
I suppose the unpartitioned space is used when you want to mildly hide it. This make sense if you want more security, or you want to secret the kernel binaries from competitors. What do you think about?

I've found an uImage extract script, I'll try to use it on Kobo uImage.

@davidfor: I confirm that the "recovery" upgrade-wifi.sh does install the uImage kernel:

PHP Code:


			
KERNEL=/mnt/onboard/.kobo/upgrade/$PLATFORM/uImage

Furthermore it doesn't distinguish between Aura HD and the other devices. Maybe on the Auras there are different scripts? I'm too much confused.

I think that renaming uImage and sideloading the firmware should be the suggested way to update the device, instead of using Kobo Desktop. My tutorial about installing Virtualbox for using Kobo Desktop on Linux will be completely useless

04-23-2014, 08:50 AM	#17
Lucas Malor Pain in the arse Posts: 758 Karma: 77856 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kobo Aura One, Kindle 4	@uboot: Interesting. Anyway, can't you use a boot partition at all? I know nothing about it and I'm reading an online tutorial. This tutorial creates kernel partitions. I suppose the unpartitioned space is used when you want to mildly hide it. This make sense if you want more security, or you want to secret the kernel binaries from competitors. What do you think about? I've found an uImage extract script, I'll try to use it on Kobo uImage. @davidfor: I confirm that the "recovery" upgrade-wifi.sh does install the uImage kernel: PHP Code: `KERNEL=/mnt/onboard/.kobo/upgrade/$PLATFORM/uImage` Furthermore it doesn't distinguish between Aura HD and the other devices. Maybe on the Auras there are different scripts? I'm too much confused. I think that renaming uImage and sideloading the firmware should be the suggested way to update the device, instead of using Kobo Desktop. My tutorial about installing Virtualbox for using Kobo Desktop on Linux will be completely useless Last edited by Lucas Malor; 04-23-2014 at 08:59 AM.