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Old 05-22-2024, 02:43 PM   #23
Renate
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Device: Nook NST, Glow2, 3, 4, '21, Kobo Aura2, Poke3, Poke5, Go6
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anghirrim View Post
I planned to make a full backup of the bootlooping device, extract it and compare img files md5sum one by one to identify the ones that changed... Painful perspective.
Yes, it gets complicated quickly.

I wrote one byte to vbmeta_system_a and _b each.
It bricked. I compared using something that I had just written.
There was a ton of stuff that had changed, but ignoring userdata:
Code:
(null)                   0       784
uefisecapp_b      11649024      1712
persist           11651072     20139
persist           11659264     15714
persist           11661312      1216
persist           11665408      2262
persist           11669504      5111
persist           11681792         2
persist           11694080         1
persist           11698176         5
persist           11714560       532
metadata          11722752      2188
metadata          11739136         5
catecontentfv     12716032        20
uefivarstore      12718080        30
modemst1          12845056   1044028
modemst1          12847104    522280
modemst2          12849152   1043933
modemst2          12851200    522238
fsc               13107200        20
onyxconfig        13109248       715
The first column is the partition name.
The second is block number (quantized to 1MB or 2048 x 512 bytes).
The third is the number of bytes changed in that 1MB.
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