update and reflash?

[Robin Meier]

Hi everyone,

I have installed some additional things on my remarkable, like entware, draft and fingertherm. After a reboot it freeze at the starting screen, saying "reMarkable is starting".

I thought the device is lost, but with your recover tool I can chroot into the internal ram and maybe repair the system. Very much thanks for your work.

I followed the posts at bricked_my_remarkable_need_help but don't find the problem. I came to the point to reinstall the uboot and root, but my /boot and /var/lib/uboot is a little bit different to the posts on reddit and I worry to take a wrong Image. Unfortunately there are no logs in /var/log or journalctl after I bricked the device.

Your tools update and reflash seems to can do that things for me, is that right? Can you please help me a little bit, as long as the doku is missing?

Here the files in /boot and /var/lib/uboot from the chroot:

root@rmrestore:/# ls -latr /var/lib/uboot/ /boot
/var/lib/uboot/:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         16384 Jan  1  1970 .
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        985543 Jan  1  1980 waveform.bin
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       2629368 Apr  7 19:11 splash.bmp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        263224 Apr  7 19:11 lowbattery.bmp
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root          1024 Apr  8 09:34 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          8192 Apr 29 18:38 uboot.env

/boot:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          1024 Dec  5 17:39 .
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         32600 Dec  5 18:20 zero-gravitas.dtb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       4203736 Dec  5 18:20 zImage-4.9.84-zero-gravitas
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            27 Dec  5 18:20 zImage -> zImage-4.9.84-zero-gravitas
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Dec  5 18:20 devicetree-zImage-zero-gravitas.dtb -> zero-gravitas.dtb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        224256 Mar 20 13:25 u-boot.imx
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root          1024 Apr 29 17:52 ..

Best regards
Robin

[ddvk]

did you disable the xochitl service or mess with the splash.bmp?

if you are desperate you can try: ./uuu upgrade.uuu, which will overwrite both root partitions. if you didn't mess with the boot partition. when is says ok, the device won't reboot on it's own, you have to power off/power on manually

[Robin Meier]

xochitl was enabled and the splash.bmp was in place.

I do uuu upgrade.uuu and i works fine. Good work, your little programm help me very much!