mcrobinson8
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Last night something got messed up on my Pandora and I could not login to XFCE. It would boot and accept my login but one of the scripts would fail, the desktop would not load, and I was back at the login prompt. This morning I decided to do a full reflash of the most recent SuperZaxxon and prepared a fat-formated SD card with the appropriate files. I was then confronted with the problem that my right shoulder button has been broken for about a year. I don't use the shoulder buttons that much so never bothered to send the unit in to get fixed. My dilemma was that the right shoulder button is used to trigger the boot from the SD card to initiate the re-install of the firmware.
The file that kicks things off is boot.src. Searching around the boards and wiki I saw that you can place an autoboot.txt file on the SD card to trigger an automatic boot off the SD card without having to use the right shoulder button. A little searching on the web led me to a command to place in the autoboot.txt file that would load the boot.src file and start the reflash:
setenv bootcmd ’mmc init;fatload mmc 0 0x82000000 boot.scr; source 0x82000000’
This worked and my reflashed Pandora is working fine. I posted this just in case someone else runs into the same problem.
The file that kicks things off is boot.src. Searching around the boards and wiki I saw that you can place an autoboot.txt file on the SD card to trigger an automatic boot off the SD card without having to use the right shoulder button. A little searching on the web led me to a command to place in the autoboot.txt file that would load the boot.src file and start the reflash:
setenv bootcmd ’mmc init;fatload mmc 0 0x82000000 boot.scr; source 0x82000000’
This worked and my reflashed Pandora is working fine. I posted this just in case someone else runs into the same problem.