RE: [iPAQ] ipkg FUBARed my iPAQ :-(

From: Hicks, Jamey <Jamey.Hicks.a.t.hp.com>
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 12:51:19 EDT

> One thing I wish for is the bootldr ability to
> upload/download single file.
> It can ls or cat them or upload the entire flash (in a
> compressed format I
> can't currently access), but if it could upload/download
> single files I
> probably could repair the system or backup the 2-5 more
> important config
> files and then just re-install everything from scratch...
>

bootldr 2.18.48 has a command for reading an individual file into DRAM, from which it can be copied to CF or sent via xmodem to the host. iirc, it is:

        jffs2 read 0xc0000000 <filename>
        save ram 0xc0000000 <len>

You can bypass most of the init process by setting init=/bin/sh or init=/bin/ash on the kernel command line via set linuxargs.

Jamey
Received on Wed Jul 10 16:51:21 2002

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