[E3-hacking] writing to flash
mark
mark at xenon-computing.com
Wed Feb 1 21:57:30 GMT 2006
Hi,
Today I mostly got fed up with programming and decided to reflash the
kernel boot params.
It all went well until I rebooted. Now the phone loads up PBL but then
refuses to go any further.
I erased the flash block at a 16k boundry and rewrote, the address was
0x4000.
commands used were :
$ pbltool eraseflash 0x4000 1
$ pbltool writeflash 0x4000 data
If anyone can give me any info on how to restore it to its former
operation I would be grateful (although I do have a backup machine
arriving tomorrow hopefully).
I think I just noticed what happened.
pbltool adds 0x400000 to the address when reading or writing to flash
but doesn't when erasing.
So I am guessing that I've erased a block of flash I wasn't expecting to.
I'll wait for the other phone to turn up and hope that they have the
same flash contents.
But if anyone has any info that could help I would be grateful, anyway
PBL is still useable so I guess its back to programming.
It would be nice to know where I went wrong though.
Regards,
Mark.
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