Re: flash-kernel failure during apt-get upgrade. Now what?

2017-03-01 Thread Forest
>Right, this is still the same data as in your first reply. You can try > >flash_unlock -i /dev/mtd1 0 1 > >. Looking at the device tree no other reason for the flash being RO >sticks out. The chip has a write-protect input, maybe its status can be >read out with the RDSR command, but I don't see h

Re: flash-kernel failure during apt-get upgrade. Now what?

2017-03-01 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, On 03/02/2017 01:08 AM, Forest wrote: > I just noticed something, though: In both tests above, the hex dumps aren't > full of 0x00 or 0xFF, but they aren't full of garbage, either. For example: > > : 56190527 9aac8fc2 4e5a9258 28a41f00 '..VX.ZN...( > 0010: 0080 00800

Re: flash-kernel failure during apt-get upgrade. Now what?

2017-03-01 Thread Forest
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:45:03 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >>> Without having checked every byte, this looks okish. Is this NAND or NOR >>> memory? >> >> Looks to me like it's NOR: >I'd something like this: > >dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=10240 count=1 >flashcp -v zero /dev/mtd1 >memtool md -s /d

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 04:34:12PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 01/03/17 15:00, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:57:15AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>Yes, I agree. What I don't know yet is whether there's a comparatively > >>straightforward way to copy the loader

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 01/03/17 15:00, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:57:15AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Yes, I agree. What I don't know yet is whether there's a comparatively straightforward way to copy the loader (plus its header etc.) into the appropriate area of Qemu's address space and

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:57:15AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Yes, I agree. What I don't know yet is whether there's a comparatively > straightforward way to copy the loader (plus its header etc.) into the > appropriate area of Qemu's address space and then transfer to it. Ideally > after th

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Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 28/02/17 21:30, Lee Fisher wrote: On 02/28/2017 11:38 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] Is it possible to use Qemu or some comparable emulator to check the boot sequence in situ, i.e. without breaking the U-Boot and kernel images out into separate files? There are a few tools which take em

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 28/02/17 22:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:38:28PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I wonder whether I could ask a general question, with a particular focus on Debian ARM devices. I've got in front of me a file containing the image of an SD-Card that I've exfiltrated f