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Hi! I am trying to do something similar with the photo frame, but I am not being able to install a new firmware on it. Any ideas? How did your project go?

Anyone has the email address of the guy (Hajo Noerenberg) who actually hacked it?

I tried to wave a rubber chicken and just throw every plausibly connected module at it, but it's still a no-go.

I've seen some indirect talk about mdraid + LVM + EXT4 not being a bootable combo yet, but then again I've seen people boast about their mdraid + dmcrypt + LVM + EXT4 / BTRFS setups.

I guess I will just fall back to a good old fashioned EXT2 boot partition.

Here's my rubber chicken waving approach for the internet:

GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="search_fs_uuid raid raid5rec raid6rec mdraid lvm ext2 chain pci"

update-grub

grub-install --modules="search_fs_uuid raid raid5rec raid6rec mdraid lvm ext2 chain pci" /dev/sda

Debian Squeeze, VirtualBox 4.0 from backports.

Debian 6.0.4 installer .iso

6 virtual disk devices
-> one physical raid partition per device
-> one RAID6 md0

One physical volume group
logical volume /
logical volume /home

The system does not manage to boot even after going in into the rescue mode and making sure grub is both configured and installed with the lvm module preloading (/etc/default/grub -> update-grub -> grub-install).

It all trips up in grub-pc (GRUB2) somehow and I do not know how to debug it.

GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!

error: file not found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>

Any pointers? Did I miss and mess up any of the rescue mode superhero stuff?

Do you have any updates on your project? I have a pulse frame, but would like to know how to setup my own server if the bankruptcy goes bad.

Hi. Just came round searcing for info on the Kodak pulse frame. Any news about your webcam project? thanks. S.

I haven't actually mounted the resulting image file yet, but the conversion seemed to run OK. If you want to check your output image file contents, for information on what is actually in there, you can use the "disktype" package
from sourceforge (disktype.sourceforge.net). That program is also included in your favorite package manager. It'll make it a bit easier to figure out where your
partitions are located. This is a sample output, using my newly converted image file. "disktype myimage.img"

Regular file, size 31.00 GiB (33286000640 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 29.31 GiB (31473008640 bytes, 61470720 sectors from 2048, bootable)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext3 file system
    UUID 09DE2E1E-2C2F-4378-A8E6-59C8723865C7 (DCE, v4)
    Volume size 29.31 GiB (31473008640 bytes, 7683840 blocks of 4 KiB)
Partition 2: 2.687 GiB (2884632576 bytes, 5634048 sectors from 61472768)
Type 0x82 (Linux swap / Solaris)
Linux swap, version 2, subversion 1, 4 KiB pages, little-endian
    Swap size 2.687 GiB (2884624384 bytes, 704254 pages of 4 KiB)

I just built qemu from the source for OS X 10.7 on Mac. I had to use these flags to get the make to complete without an error on compiling darwin-user:

>> ./configure --disable-darwin-user --disable-sdl --enable-cocoa --disable-kvm --disable-bsd-user

Then i directly converted a Windows 7 x64 created VHD image into a raw... well it's not done yet, but seems to be running fine. The latest qemu-img does understand the source file is .vhd and so the command I had to use is:

>> qemu-img convert -O raw source.vhd output.raw

next step is to use dd to lay down the raw image onto a hdd partition...

Basically it boils down to trying all the plausible offsets until you find the right one

Wow! It is not needed! If you have cylinder-aligned partition, just skip 63*512 bytes. If you have megabyte-aligned, 1024*2*512.

hey i just bought one of these and i found this sequence of events very interesting...

1. look on the outside of the box, the activation code for use on kodakpulse.com is there - interesting, right?

2. log into kodakpulse, make some fake account (disposable/verifiable email address

3. register units that are still on the shelf for sale, send pics to them

4. someone you don't even know buys the units and sees YOUR pictures that you chose for them to see

could be offensive, or a scam (go here to win big = virus), or just for pure fun, etc

what do you think?

I have been trying to do this for 3 whole days and I finally found this post by accident. I have tried to do this with Arch Linux and Fedora and had no success. Even Google yielded no answers until I tried "Debian grub2 lvm /boot" and found this. Even though this is not written for squeeze I managed to take the bottom half and make this work. I even went as far as asking on 2 forums and in IRC channels for multiple OS's, even bugged some friends and got the usual "why would you want to do that?". Sir, I cannot thank you enough. Looks like I'm a Debian user now thanks to blogs like this.

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