fanoush

Anyone wants to test new feature - usb network recovery mode? Get it from http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.beta.tgz

Currently it is enabled for 770 only since I don't have N800 initfs uclibc toolchain ready. N800 version will be added later.

Now there are 2 more questions when preparing initfs image:

install telnet server for network recovery? (yes/no)
install dropbear ssh server for advanced network recovery? (yes/no)


Telnet has no password and runs /bin/sh directly.

Dropbear has usual root password and scp should work too. If you have dropbear already installed in roots then server rsa and dss keys will be copied to initfs too, otherwise keys will be generated on each boot (quite slow).

Both are optional. You can install one or both of them. Default IP address is 192.168.10.1. You can change it via USB_IP variable in bootmenu.conf

When in boot menu press Home key (the one with house :-) and then connect USB cable. For exiting this mode remove cable and pres Esc (the one with circular arrow :-)

For USB networking setup instructions see:

Windows XP, 2000
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/usbnetworkingwinxp/ (just download and install the .inf file)
Linux
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/3-x/howto_usb_networking_bora.html
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/2-x/howto_usb_networking.html

Let me know here if you have some suggestions. I guess for advanced recovery it would be useful to have GNU tar, mtd-utils and maybe also 0xFFFF flasher in the initfs too. Also this mode can be used as poor man's console, you can mount rootfs by hand, chroot to it and boot it from the shell.