Multi-boot for 7020 - need alpha testers - Page 3

dreamuser1 · #21 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

It works nice with my DM7020! great work!
I have Original DMM on Flash with gemini MOD and Hydra on USB! all work stable!

zoppa · #22 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by noggie

Icredible. Must have forgotten to push the "Upload" button.

Definetely time to go to bed

Please upload once again.

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EDIT
Thanks. Download is working
/EDIT

noggie · #23 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by dreamuser1

It works nice with my DM7020! great work!
I have Original DMM on Flash with gemini MOD and Hydra on USB! all work stable!

Thanks for the report! Keep them coming, both good and bad. There are probably minor bugs lurking somewhere, and having a handle on what works and what doesn't will be a great help in squashing those bugs.

zoppa · #24 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by noggie

Updated package

Btw, how to update?
Should I remove previous miniroot?
Will my config be kept?

EDIT
Old miniroot is not in ipkg list_installed. So i did a ipkg install miniroot...ipk.
/opt/miniroot7020/images was overwritten. Replaced it with my backed up images.
Should I have used the webif "update miniroot"?
/EDIT

zoppa · #25 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

Installation, miniroot menue and webif (with maintenance shell) are working.

But, if I try to boot from FLASH, then miniroot is looping. Booting from USB is fine.

noggie · #26 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by zoppa

Installation, miniroot menue and webif (with maintenance shell) are working.

But, if I try to boot from FLASH, then miniroot is looping. Booting from USB is fine.

Shit, shit, shit! I've removed the download file until this problem is resolved.

Thanks for the quick response, zoppa.

noggie · #27 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoppa

Btw, how to update?
Should I remove previous miniroot?
Will my config be kept?

EDIT
Old miniroot is not in ipkg list_installed. So i did a ipkg install miniroot...ipk.
/opt/miniroot7020/images was overwritten. Replaced it with my backed up images.
Should I have used the webif "update miniroot"?
/EDIT

You should be able to do a "ipk remove miniroot7020". It doesn't delete the directory structure or your config files, but everything else will be gone.

zoppa · #28 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by noggie

You should be able to do a "ipk remove miniroot7020". It doesn't delete the directory structure or your config files, but everything else will be gone.

Its really strange :

Code:

root@dreambox:~# ipkg list_installed | grep miniroot7020
root@dreambox:~#

I think what happened is that /sbin/originit was overwritten with init->../linuxrc.
In my second try I removed init and moved originit to init before doing ipkg install. This time everything is ok.

But still no miniroot in ipkg database.

noggie · #29 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by zoppa

But, if I try to boot from FLASH, then miniroot is looping. Booting from USB is fine.

A couple of minutes thinking (why didn't I do that earlier?

) and I believe I know the reason. Did you just install the new version on top of the old one? Without removing the old one first? In that case I think I know what's happening. The installation scripts are inadequate and should either stop the installation if it's already installed, or change behaviour if it sees that it's already installed.

I feel really bad about this, but I think I may have damaged your system, zoppa. I know that "sorry" isn't adequate, but I just can't undo the error.

Explanation: The install script does a "mv /sbin/init /sbin/originit" and a "mv /bin/busybox /bin/origbusybox". The un-install script will reverse this. Doing the installation twice will overwrite the real original with the previous copy. But if you can start from USB, there is a chance of recovery without having to flash. Boot from USB, mount the flash somewhere ("mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock/3 /mnt/somewhere"). Now confirm that this is the problem by listing some files:
ls -l /mnt/somewhere/bin/*busybox /mnt/somewhere/sbin/*init
You should see the original and the new. If they are the same, the actual original has been overwritten. /mnt/somewhere/sbin/init should be a link to ../linuxrc, while /mnt/somewhere/sbin/originit should be a binary.

/mnt/somewhere/bin/busybox is not critical, the version I distribute only has some additions to the one from OE. /mnt/somewhere/sbin/originit is a different matter.

If my theory is right, you should be able to delete /mnt/somewhere/sbin/originit and replace it with /sbin/init. There has been no changes to init in OE for a long time, so the one from USB should be equivalent to the one you used to have in flash.

The same procedure for busybox, if you care. As I said, the one I distribute should be just functional additions to the standard OE one.

Give me a few hours, and I will update and test new install/remove scripts. If anybody has downloaded previous versions, make sure you do an uninstall before doing a new install.

noggie · #30 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoppa

Its really strange :

Code:

root@dreambox:~# ipkg list_installed | grep miniroot7020
root@dreambox:~#

I think what happened is that /sbin/originit was overwritten with init->../linuxrc.
In my second try I removed init and moved originit to init before doing ipkg install. This time everything is ok.

But still no miniroot in ipkg database.

This came in while I was writing my reply.

Good to see that you are OK!!!

I'll take a look at "ipkg list_install", but I know I have done a "ipkg remove miniroot7020" and successfully removed it. Don't know why "list_install" doesn't work. If you want to run a test: do a "ipkg update" before the "list_install" and see if that makes a difference.