Thread: Booting from MMC on N800 Now Available!!
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2007-02-05 , 09:38
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#29
Originally Posted by tolou View Post
Another somewhat generic question in this "N800" thread ;-)
- Would reflashing the device wipe out the initfs along with the root system?
Yes if you flash whole FIASCO image. No if you flash just the rootfs. When reflashing same firmware again flashing rootfs should be enough to fix anything that is fixable by reflashing. Only when flashing newer or older firmware whole FIASCO image should be used (and yes, you loose the bootmenu).

Linux flasher can unpack FIASCO image 'flasher -u -F ....bin' and then flash just the rootfs 'flasher -f -r rootfs.jffs2'. Sadly windows flashing wizard cannot do this.