[dspear99ca]

Hi there. I have a Kobo Glo that's not even as useful as a doorstop. It stopped working a few weeks ago... it's charged, and I can make the LED do various things by pressing combinations of the power and light buttons, but the distorted cover image on the screen doesn't change and nothing appears to be able to reset it. Of course the paperclip was the first thing I tried as I've had to do it quite a few times in the past.

So, I see from poking around that the Glo appears to run some linux variant and that the whole OS as well as downloaded books are stored on a micro-SD card on the motherboard. I've downloaded kobo-update-3.1.7.3.zip, I'm very unix/linux savvy (worked as a UNIX sysadmin for many years) so no problem unzipping, etc. I have no idea, however, of the protocols involved with booting from a USB device... didn't exist when I worked in IT.

I see that the zipfile contains a) a linux kernel and b) a KoboRoot.tgz file. Is this all I need to format the SD card and replace contents? Is there a HOWTO on exactly where stuff needs to be put on the SD card in order to replace what's existing? I assume there's separate OS root partition and data partition(s) to store downloaded ebooks. What size are these partitions?

Or do I need an SD card image from someone to start with? If so where do I get one?

I also see an "upgrade" directory in the update, which contains a half-dozen or so u-boot-*.bin files as well as two UImage* files with no filename extension to indicate type. ???

Any help really appreciated, my 11-year-old daughter bought the Glo with her own money and is pretty sad to see it go.