[Avila] recover entire flash image

[devel]

Excellent. Yes, all of this brings a smile to my face. For one, its Friday, 
and, this whole process working with the on-board flash and building the 
ramdisk image and so forth has been very enjoyable.

I would like to try Tom's method at some point so I can get a feel for that, 
sounds interesting.

My idea I had was to get it using the J-tag, just like Tim mentioned. 
Pulling that image to a floppy wouldn't work obviously, so my idea was to 
use a USB stick with the startup disk on that to obtain the image. I don't 
have any PCs here that is a non-NTFS Windows machine so I can't write it to 
a hard drive. So I would need a PC that can boot off a USB drive and a USB 
drive that is bootable. I understand that some are not capable of being a 
boot device.

Thanks.

Travis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Harvey" <tim_harvey at yahoo.com>
To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Avila] recover entire flash image
Subject: [Avila] > You can also use jtag to pull off the entire image, although be prepared 
> to let
> it run overnight (very slow).  That's by far the simplest method.
>
> Another method possibly requiring a little more work would be to use Tom's
> method or a variation by booting a kernel/rfs via tftp that was setup to
> configure the entire flash as a single mtd partition thus eliminating the 
> need
> to figure out where to pad the image.  You can do this by including 
> certain mtd
> modules and passing specific commandlines.  If this is too much for you 
> resort
> to the jtag method.
>
> Tim
>
> --- Loft <Loft at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> devel wrote:
>>
>> Travis,
>>
>> I'm glad I could bring a smile to your face. The world can use more of
>> those.
>>
>> I may not have been crystal clear in my last post, but here goes.
>>
>> My capturing and concatenating the mtdblock0, mtdblock1, mtdblock2 and
>> the last block (usually 128K) with padding of 0xFF in between you'd have
>> a full image that you could JTAG on any compatible Avila board.
>>
>> With the proper kernel configuration and tools you could actually write
>> the whole-shebang from Linux.
>>
>> Hope this helps and puts an even bigger smile on your face.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tom
>> > Well, I'm quite serious actually lol. I would like the ability to
>> > reproduce this image on another board with one shot, so I wouldn't
>> > have to keep re-entering all the redboot commands and such to get a
>> > duplicate system up and running. Thanks.
>> >
>> > Travis
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loft" <Loft at nc.rr.com>
>> > To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
>> > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:55 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Avila] recover entire flash image
>> >
>> >
>> >> devel wrote:
>> >>> Hey list,
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone have any tricks to obtain the entire flash image from an
>> >>> Avila board? Redboot, kernel, ramdisk, all of it in one image.
>> >>> Obviously the image wouldn't fit on a floppy, at least mine (12MB
>> >>> used) won't lol. Thanks.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Travis
>> >>>
>> >> Last I check (a while ago) the first three partitions had that
>> >> (Redboot, kernel, ramdisk).  I think the whole thing was around
>> >> 4-5MB.  All you need to do is "dd" /dev/mtdblock0 1 and 2.
>> >>
>> >> You could then tarball up the binary images.
>> >>
>> >> You'd just be missing the information in the eeprom.
>> >>
>> >> It really depends on how serious you are about capturing all the
>> >> state data.  There's also a partition at the end of flash that has
>> >> the Redboot partition information and command line stuff.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Tom
>> >>
>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: avila-unsubscribe at lists.unixstudios.net
>> >> For additional commands, e-mail: avila-help at lists.unixstudios.net
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: avila-unsubscribe at lists.unixstudios.net
>> > For additional commands, e-mail: avila-help at lists.unixstudios.net
>> >
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: avila-unsubscribe at lists.unixstudios.net
>> For additional commands, e-mail: avila-help at lists.unixstudios.net
>>
>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: avila-unsubscribe at lists.unixstudios.net
> For additional commands, e-mail: avila-help at lists.unixstudios.net
>
>