[Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Hi today I want to share my live debian jessie 32bit iso image.

I created it for helping windows user and to have a quick and easy possibility to flash a N900 or to boot the rescue os. With hopefully nearly every pc (no clue about efi boot, version 0.7 is for uefi boot).

This should be a hybrid iso image. I tested it only with an usb memory stick.
It is pretty easy to install just dd it to your stick. Just make sure which device your stick is.

For windows try something like

https://de.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_Stick#Download_ImageWriter (for older windows like xp)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ (newer windows)

or https://www.balena.io/etcher/

This live linux is a minimal debian, there is no window manager.
Maemo flasher and 0xFFFF are on board.
Rescue os could be found in /opt/n900rescue
libusb-0.1.12 installed

The image partition has a size of 162.97MiB to 312MB.
With the available unused space on the stick, you could create another partition and copy the firmware files.
This partition needs to be mounted after booting.

Since v0.3 you could change the keyboard layout with loadkeys like this:

What I tried so far is booting the rescue os and ssh to device.
Mounting another partition from stick.
At the moment I don't want to flash my N900s to much work to get the status back :o.
However I am really sure that this will also work:)
Testers and comments are welcome.

username: root
password: supermaemo

Download:

maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.1.tar.gz (zippyshare)
maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.1.tar.gz (mirror link without JavaScript fingerprinting bull****)
maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.2.iso (ddl)
maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.3.iso (ddl)
maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.4.iso (ddl)
maemo_flasher_devuan_live_v0.6.iso (ddl)
maemo_flasher_devuan_live_v0.7_64bit.iso (ddl)

2fde6f1699334739f56f119131eb1214 maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.1.tar.gz
d68182f94e1493899935ad9b44f7b7db maemo_flasher_debian_live.iso
b890f956039c915a1be8daabf182c0f9 maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.2.iso
a145289210b874228a7e6627e646457f maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.3.iso
43DD4B33ACC030334A83CD71D4DEC94B maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.4.iso
D34543BE7E1C54F88A0B916B13F91245 maemo_flasher_devuan_live_v0.6.iso
C8DD4C0585C450205D3399C8C0234AF6 maemo_flasher_devuan_live_v0.7_64bit.iso

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Version 0.7 devuan daedalus 64bit (bios/uefi) added package list
- added htop
- added curl
- added tree

Version 0.6 devuan beowulf 32bit added package list
- added ftp
- added wget
- removed firmware-linux
- updated to devuan beowulf
- updated 0xFFFF flasher to 0.10

Version 0.4 debian jessie 32bit added package list
- added minicom
- added telnet
- added firmware-linux
- added cramfsprogs
- updated debian security packages
- updated 0xFFFF flasher to 0.8
- updated N900 rescue os to 1.3

Version 0.3 debian jessie 32bit added package list
- added console-data for keyboard layouts
- added N9(50) rescue image and bootloader /opt/n950rescue

Version 0.2 debian jessie 32bit added package list

- adb (Android 4.2.2 Debug Bridge)
- fastboot (Android 4.2.2 protocol for communicating with bootloaders)
- flasher 3.12.1 (N9/N950)
- dfu-util (openmoko, Motorola EZX[openezx])
- fiasco-gen
- mtd-utils

Version 0.1 debian jessie 32bit installed package list

- 0xFFFF v0.7 [by Pali]

The ‘Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher’ aka 0xFFFF utility implements a free userspace handler for the NOLO bootloader and extended features for flashing, dumping and getting information for the Nokia Internet Tablets. Thus it's a free alternative to Nokia's closed source flashing utility called flasher.

Supported operations currently include, but are not limited to:
* generating and unpacking FIASCO images on local device
* editing Maemo firmware packages
* flashing any kind image type to Maemo devices via USB
* "cold" flashing for devices with bricked bootloaders
* direct kernel boot without flashing it to NAND
* changing configuration of Maemo device (R&D flags, HW revision strings, ...)

Supported are the Nokia 770, N800, N810, N810w, N900, N950 and N9.

- maemo flasher-3.5

supported devices: N900, N810, N800, 770

- libusb-0.1.12
- ssh client
- mc

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Future ideas:

- adding rescue image and bootloader for N9/N950
- adding more keyboard layouts

If you have any wishes or tools to be added please make some suggestions.

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Direct link without JavaScript fingerprinting bull****: http://n950.ru/maemo_flasher_debian_live_v0.1.tar.gz

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Okay added a second version with more tools (second post).
Now with an user friendly ddl (first post).

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Any chance to change the keypmap for another keyboard layouts than spanish?

The command "loadkeys" is not possible to use for me..

Thanks

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

I will look into it and try to add all available keyboard layouts. At the moment it is us_en.

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

New Version 0.3 released.

Now it is possible to change the keyboard layout with loadkeys.
Added also n950rescue files.

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Thanks Halftux, this thread should be mentioned in wiki for easing of firmware upgrade: https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware .

I recently bought a used N900 in quite good state and last weekend I tried to flash it and restore from my older N900 via backupmenu.

Gosh, such an afford to get all the necessary tools, firmware files and information together. When I was finally through the whole procedure I thought, everything needed must be kept in one place.

So I use this useful thread to present a live image iso with all my stuff collected at my "just flash a N900"-project ...

https://www.magentacloud.de/share/xoaa7kitfk

* It is actually a standard Ubuntu 16.04.2 32bit Live DVD image - no passwords needed
* It contains the flasher tool AND latest firmware files for flashing N900 (rootfs and emmc)
* Standard Ubuntu desktop environment (english), with easy switching to other languages and keyboard layouts
* Terminal has the two complete flasher commands in bash history
* Links on desktop to short notes (local txt files) on how to flash and how to switch lang and keyboard
* Firefox with locally cached tabs for all bookmarks I found useful when flashing and restoring a N900

The iso image is quite big , 1.7GB (of course, the original Ubuntu image alone is 1.5GB).
But some people might prefer this to the small one by Halftux, where the firmware files must be searched and downloaded as an extra step.

The image was build with Pinguy Builder (which is preinstalled and configured) and everybody can extend it and build its own live iso image. An external disk with a unix file system is needed. All temp files and the final iso itself go there into one directory (the path to that dir has to be set in Pinguy Builder), so at least 5GB space ist needed. All user files and settings must be copied to /etc/skel before the build is started. From that dir the home dir for the live image user is generated during boot.

For booting off that iso I recommend setting up a multiboot usb stick https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...boot_USB_drive (different live iso files can be booted and the stick can still be used for fat32-data, no partitioning needed) .
And if GRUB2 is used as the bootloader on a computer, then it might even be possible to add a menuentry in grub.conf with the path to the local iso file in the line "set isofile=/..." . See the Ubuntu example menuentry ...


I hope my "new" N900 will last a while so that I don't need that iso for myself in the near future ;) . But it might help others ...

Cheers, Ulle

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

I need some clarifications on how to use this tool to reset the Lock Code of my N900...

I am running ubuntu so I can simply boot this image through a usb stick...

Now, here's my issue, how can I ssh my N900 and ssh is not setup, and I don't have access to the terminal to do that.

I need help here

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Dear Ulle,

Your Ubuntu-flasher-image works like a charm!! (saves A LOT of time)

Wondering why I just discovered yesterday.... :(

Perhaps you were right at:

".... this thread should be mentioned in wiki for easing of firmware upgrade: https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware".

Cheers

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Aye Aye Captain ;) , thanks for feedback!

I noticed that my Ubuntu based image is missing the very usefull "rescue os" plus documentation mentioned here by Halftux :
https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...21&postcount=2
to unlock a forgotten Lock Code ...
The link at the bottom of his post links back to this thread here. His debian image (v0.3.iso) does contain it.

Cheers, Ulle

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

released a new version
link first post
changes second post

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Hmm do we dare?
If ever you have too much time, one day...
I remember having installed dev things on my PC (debian) to have a virtual N900 (Maemish, do you hear?) on The PC. That was impressing, great toy.
...but I have no clue what I did this day.. some sandbox dev-tools something...

As it was not so easy to install for noob to mid-newbie users, that could be great to be included to your image. But that would imply the add of a GUI and all the troops...

Anyway thanks for the work!

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Yes this image should stay as none gui it is meant for flashing and hacking. For example when you prefer nano over vi, I could add it.

However for dev things and virtual N900 (qemu).. it was slow and is slow. You could check out my vhd image.

https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=95806

And how to get the emulator running:
https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...3&postcount=32

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

No, I prefer Vi ;)

I am ashamed getting so much spoon feeding, thanks a lot for the links.

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

It comes from a real machine and you can put the vhd on a real machine again. It is not meant this way but possible.

Is see that you are giving us some learned stuff and information back and you are also able to find something on your own, in this case little spoon feeding is ok, because everyone benefits from it. There are cases were people ask trivial question because they are to lazy and did not searching for there problem, but I think you don't belong to them.

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Released a new version based on devuan beowulf.
I needed to patch the vga/framebuffer console scrollback back into the 4.19 kernel to make it useful.
English keyboard layout ist default. To change it for example to german load the responding key map for it.

link first post
changes second post
It should contain all packages from former releases.

If you would like to have the none free firmwares, I could make another version.

Re: [Announce] N900 maemo flasher as debian live image
 

Released a new version based on devuan daedalus.
It is a dual iso (cd/usb) file, with dual boot option (bios/uefi 32bit and 64bit).
The devuan is 64bit with installed 32bit libusb for precompiled nokia things.
I needed to patch the vga/framebuffer console scrollback back into the 6.1.76 kernel to make it useful. It is only dangerous if somebody has physical access to the computer. So I would say not important for a live boot.

link first post
changes second post
It should contain all packages from former releases.