Re: [Gnewsense-dev] lemote yeeloong rescue procedure

[s . boutayeb]

Congrats Graziano!

Could you please update the wiki (
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS#toc19 ) with your procedure?

Thanks a lot

Samy

Selon Graziano Sorbaioli <address@hidden>:

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> At a certain time I couldn't boot up my lemote anymore.
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> Here is how I rescued it.
>
> 1)
> I downloaded the new version of the os that samy talked about in the
> mailing list:
>
> http://www.lemote.com/upfiles/8089_OS_v1.1.1/
>
>
> 2)
> Formatted an usb key ext2 and put it all inside.
>
>
>
> 3) Inserted the usb key BEFORE booting the lemote.
>
>
> 4)
> At the pmon boot I pressed del.
>
>
> At PMON> prompt I wrote:
>
> boot /dev/fs/address@hidden/vmlinux
>
> and again a second time:
>
> boot /dev/fs/address@hidden/vmlinux
>
>
>
> 5)
>
> The lemote will display a chinese writing and below
>
> "System is recovering and Please wait for several minutes"
>
>
> and then it will reboot.
>
>
>
> 6)
>
> When it rebooted, the kernel didn't load (maybe this was a particular
> issue related to my situation) so I set again the pmon variable called
> "al" (autoload):
>
>
> set al /dev/fs/address@hidden/boot/vmlinux
>
>
>
> 7)
> The Lemote Yeeloong will then boot automatically into the new updated os.
>
>
> Do you remember the "Easy mode" of the Asus EEE Pc?
> It's something like that but it is in Chinese and based on KDE (just the
> easy mode of the Xandros preinstalled on the asus eee pc).
>
>
> Launching "kcontrol" from the terminal I managed to change some kde
> locale settings but the "yeeloong easy mode" is something customized and
> I don't think there is the possibility to change its language.
>
>
> Arthur, Elly?
> Some suggestions from the official manuals?
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
>
> - --
> Graziano Sorbaioli -- www.sorbaioli.org
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