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Old 06-27-2017, 11:31 AM   #42
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These lines 'MMC read: dev # 1, block # 720, count 28672'

Come from a source code file named
Kindle_src_5.8.5_3048340064\gplrelease\uboot_2014. 04\drivers\net\fm\fm.c

This does not appear to be part of the normal boot process, but is some sort of hardware driver, and you may have just gotten really lucky with the way things work.

Did you save off the log files of when you ran that mmc write command or when you restarted it?

I'd love to try to figure out how that worked, because it really doesn't look like it should have

It is really nice to know that the 'loady' command works on U-Boot 2014 that is on your 8th generation device, at least that part will help people in the future if they do the same as you did.

You didn't say if you ran the 'fastboot' command on the kindle at the same time you were running it on your PC. Do you remember if that was an option along with 'loady'?

It would be bad news to learn that loady works, but fastboot doesn't



Edit: Interesting news for the Kindle 8th generation, only 'Kindle_src_5.8.5_3048340064 has "uboot_2014.04", but all of the newer builds have gone back to "uboot_2009.08", I assume they only accidentally included that more fully featured uboot in that version, or they needed it for some upgrade reasons. So you got really lucky that you had this U-boot available.

Last edited by coplate; 06-27-2017 at 04:24 PM.
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