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mmax · 08-13-2014, 03:37 AM

I still couldn't fix it ... it would be more easy if someone would supply me with a working kobo mini image, but no one is responding to private messages :-(

Allrigt, so keep on trying. What I tried now was:

Code:

dd if=boot_sector_kobo.img of=/dev/sdd seek=2 bs=512 count=19453
19453+0 records in
19453+0 records out
9959936 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0,144711 s, 68,8 MB/s

where boot_sector_kobo.img is the dump of the first 9.5MB, which is the 'free' space at the beginning. But still it doesn't work. I'm not sure if the arguments "seek=2 bs=512" really skip the first 1024 bytes at the destination ... according to the man-page of dd there is also the 'skip' option, but I'm not really sure what to use

According to this post, you have to replace the following parts of markes image to run it on the kobo mini:

Code:

u-boot:    bytes 1025 - 71168 ( from sector 2, length 137 sectors )
hw-config: bytes 524288 - 525312 (from sector 1024, length 1 sector )

Thanks,
Max

08-13-2014, 03:37 AM	#104
mmax Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Austria Device: Kobo Mini	I still couldn't fix it ... it would be more easy if someone would supply me with a working kobo mini image, but no one is responding to private messages :-( Allrigt, so keep on trying. What I tried now was: Code: dd if=boot_sector_kobo.img of=/dev/sdd seek=2 bs=512 count=19453 19453+0 records in 19453+0 records out 9959936 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0,144711 s, 68,8 MB/s where boot_sector_kobo.img is the dump of the first 9.5MB, which is the 'free' space at the beginning. But still it doesn't work. I'm not sure if the arguments "seek=2 bs=512" really skip the first 1024 bytes at the destination ... according to the man-page of dd there is also the 'skip' option, but I'm not really sure what to use According to this post, you have to replace the following parts of markes image to run it on the kobo mini: Code: u-boot: bytes 1025 - 71168 ( from sector 2, length 137 sectors ) hw-config: bytes 524288 - 525312 (from sector 1024, length 1 sector ) Thanks, Max Last edited by mmax; 08-13-2014 at 04:56 AM.