[Gpe-list] I've shredded my h3900

[Florian Boor]

Hi Felix,

Felix Joussein wrote:
> I think I've played around too much with my unit.
> Last thing I did was installing some software when ipkg yelled "Disk 
> space full".
> Well nothing worked anymore. I couldn't even open a terminal window or a 
> ssh connection.

right, unluckily checking for free space on a JFFS2 device is not really easy.
But in fact it would be really good to make ipkg more tolerant to full filesystems.

> So I finally restarted the unit... now when booting with
> linuxargs=root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc noinitrd console=ttyS0
> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
> The same with the old linux trick
> linuxargs=root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/bin/sh noinitrd console=ttyS0
> Is there still a way to get onto the flash and remove some data so I can 
> boot again?

It might be necesary to write "init=/bin/sh sh", because /bin/sh is a link to
busybox. If this doesn't work it starts to become difficult. You could boot into
a filesystem on a CF card if you have a CF or PCMCIA jacket and mount the
internal filesystem then.

Greetings

Florian

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