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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Announcing Inferno for Android phones
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:53:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKL_4D95HRxrnX2f=dfGH-oESi85kmyWrEVHGk9gjp=zA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACkDJLxUVrix45OxuhQRX-K+aEbjdZ_vu+CUXJVtq5rOydwuBw@mail.gmail.com>

A few corrections.

> $ adb shell mount -o remount,rw /
> $ adb push boot-inferno.img

adb push work/boot-inferno.img /boot-inferno.img

> $ adb shell
> Now you'll be in an Android shell.
> android$ cat /proc/mtd
> This will hopefully give you a list of "mtd" devices and their names.
> We only care about the one called "boot."
> android$ cat /dev/zero > /dev/mtd/<"boot" device from above>
> The zeroing step may not be necessary, but I've never tried flashing
> the boot manually without it.

It is hard to believe it is needed. The reason is the erase state of
flash is all 1s, not all zeros. Cat'ing zeros onto the flash is
probably not what you want: it corresponds to an all-bits-burned
state, not an all-bits-cleared state. In this case when you the next
step:

> android$ flash_image boot /boot-inferno.img

The mtd driver will likely erase the flash (to all 1s!) and then burn it :-)


> Then reboot and it should work.

android continues to work. But no inferno at present. I get the nice
white screen, but if I touch it, well, it's blank after a bit.



The parallel_push script did not work that well for me, I had to push
dis/ by hand. I think it would be better to copy the tar file over and
untar it -- would avoid mac silliness with case in the names, as well.

Anyway, I'm booted. I've taken notes and will post them later.

I think I'm still missing lots of stuff so I may just push the tar
file and untar it.

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-17 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16 22:23 John Floren
2011-09-16 22:30 ` Nemo
2011-09-16 22:32 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-09-16 22:39   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-09-16 22:43     ` John Floren
2011-09-17 10:58     ` Richard Miller
2011-09-17 12:24       ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-09-16 22:41   ` Paul Lalonde
2011-09-16 22:46     ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-09-16 22:49       ` Nemo
2011-09-16 22:49       ` John Floren
2011-09-17 18:02       ` John Floren
2011-09-17 18:26         ` Joel Armstrong
2011-09-21 22:06           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-21 22:11             ` ron minnich
2011-09-21 22:14             ` John Floren
2011-09-22  7:38               ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-22  9:59               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16 23:34 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-16 23:38   ` ron minnich
2011-09-16 23:59 ` Joseph Stewart
2011-09-17  2:01 ` John Floren
2011-09-17  4:24 ` ron minnich
2011-09-17  4:35   ` John Floren
2011-09-17  4:43 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-09-17  5:48   ` ron minnich
2011-09-17 15:36 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-17 16:29   ` ron minnich
2011-09-17 17:46     ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-09-17 18:01       ` John Floren
2011-09-17 18:23     ` Joel Armstrong
2011-09-17 20:26       ` ron minnich
2011-09-17 21:14         ` Joel Armstrong
2011-09-17 21:15           ` Joel Armstrong
2011-09-17 21:25           ` ron minnich
2011-09-17 21:53       ` ron minnich [this message]
2011-09-17 22:05         ` ron minnich
2011-09-17 22:56           ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-09-19 17:25           ` John Floren
2011-09-19 17:29             ` ron minnich
2011-09-19 17:29               ` ron minnich
2011-09-19 21:49                 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-19 22:09                   ` Steve Simon
2011-09-19 22:13                   ` Joseph Stewart
2011-09-19 22:19                     ` hiro
2011-09-19 22:48                   ` John Floren
2011-09-22 10:11                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-22 12:30                     ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-23 13:30                       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-23 13:40                         ` Richard Miller
2011-09-23 13:48                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-23 13:51                           ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-09-23 23:14                             ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-26  7:26                               ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-09-26 10:02                                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-26 14:52                                 ` John Floren
2011-09-23 13:55                           ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-09-23 14:05                             ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-09-23 14:54                               ` Jeff Sickel
2011-09-27 23:05 ` John Floren
2011-11-04 21:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-11-04 21:55   ` John Floren
2011-11-04 22:43     ` Masen Marshall
2011-09-17  2:24 paul.a.lalonde
2011-09-17  2:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-09-17  2:40   ` John Floren
2011-09-17  2:46     ` John Floren
2011-09-17  2:48       ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-17  3:37         ` ron minnich
2011-09-17  3:40           ` ron minnich
2011-09-17  3:55             ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-17  2:46     ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-28 14:43 252608386
2011-09-28 14:56 ` ron minnich
2011-09-28 15:11 ` John Floren
2011-09-28 15:31   ` JS enter
2011-09-28 19:53 ` John Floren
2011-09-28 19:57   ` John Floren
2011-09-29 23:02     ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-30  0:15       ` Ethan Grammatikidis

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