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Originally Posted by indiecognition
A couple other stumbles were: - When booting into diagnostics mode I didn't realize that there would only be one second to press any key and interrupt the regular boot. But in addition to using the Kindle menus to reboot, holding down the power button for 15-20 seconds also worked to reboot and try again.
- Once in diagnostics mode, the keyboard shortcuts didn't work for me (I'm not sure why), so I used the touchscreen instead to get to the login prompt ("Reboot or Disable Diags" then "Exit to login prompt").
- When using the vi tool to edit the password file, I could save using :w but couldn't figure out how to get the reboot command to work. Holding down the power button worked fine for me there too.
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I was playing around with serial on a PW3 running 5.12.2 yesterday and can confirm that the instructions (d,l,q) for dropping to a login prompt aren't correct for recent firmware versions. It's possible to get a list of commands from the command line by typing:
I'm not able to provide the full command list at the moment and I neglected to save my serial log so it's probably worth somebody checking this when they're able to. I don't think that it'll differ from the menu shown on screen but I could be wrong on that.
To drop to a login prompt, you now need to type:
Also, the instructions for vi are slightly flawed too -
:w will only write changes to a file, you need to use
:wq to write changes and quit vi.