Re: [Gumstix-users] Re flashing Over Linux

[tlynch99 <tj...@au...>]

Dave,

I think what you say about the reboot makes perfect sense, in my FS, reboot
is linked to reboot.sysvinit or something like that.  I am using a Verdex
XM4 Gumstix,  I am not familiar with the watchdog timer at all. 

Tom



Dave Hylands wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
>> Yes I have tried the reboot command, but I think because of the state of
>> the
>> file system the command didn't seem to run.  Many of the normal commands
>> don't seem to work after the re-flash.
> 
> You may want to try copying the rebooot program to /tmp first (before
> flashing) and then try /tmp/reboot. If you're flashing over top of the
> running filesystem then it's not surprising that things don't work.
> And now that I think about it, even with the reboot command in /tmpit
> will still probably bot work as it tries to run other stuff as part of
> doing a clean shutdown.
> 
> The next best thing is to trigger the wathcdog timer. Which flavour of
> gumstix do you have?
> 
> -- 
> Dave Hylands
> Shuswap, BC, Canada
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/
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