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wpd · 08-24-2015, 05:04 AM

I did not have a 1.8V serial usb when I started this, so I thoroughly rogered the kindle before I actually saw the kindle commandline. The kernel booted, but warned that no kinit could be found.

Breaking into recovery still worked, so

enter into recovery abc menu
format user partition
expose fat partition
upload amazon supplied 5.6.5 update
install update from user partition

Got me back a working, but still jailed kindle at the latest firmware.

Uboot to the rescue: setting the boot argument to mount the root partition together with init=/bin/sh gave me root access. Remount rw, repasswd root, and all was well.

In the process I did try uboot/bist/fastboot uploading of other ppls partitions and kernels. The MMC in the PW3 seems too new for older kernels, and this will give mmc0 unrecognized EXT_CSD errors (-22) errors.

Hope this provides breadcrumbs for others in the same straits.

08-24-2015, 05:04 AM	#1
wpd Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 221 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: iliad/nokia9500	Jailbreak 5.6.5 I did not have a 1.8V serial usb when I started this, so I thoroughly rogered the kindle before I actually saw the kindle commandline. The kernel booted, but warned that no kinit could be found. Breaking into recovery still worked, so enter into recovery abc menu format user partition expose fat partition upload amazon supplied 5.6.5 update install update from user partition Got me back a working, but still jailed kindle at the latest firmware. Uboot to the rescue: setting the boot argument to mount the root partition together with init=/bin/sh gave me root access. Remount rw, repasswd root, and all was well. In the process I did try uboot/bist/fastboot uploading of other ppls partitions and kernels. The MMC in the PW3 seems too new for older kernels, and this will give mmc0 unrecognized EXT_CSD errors (-22) errors. Hope this provides breadcrumbs for others in the same straits.