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Topic: Is it possible to replace just kernel?

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Post #1
mangoo
25 May 2006, 21:16

Let's assume I want to replace the kernel, and *only* kernel on a device running OpenWRT.

Is it possible?

Is there a chance that with:

# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00040000 00010000 "pmon"
mtd1: 003b0000 00010000 "linux"
mtd2: 00330000 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd3: 00010000 00010000 "nvram"

some magic command like:

write_kernel /dev/mtd1

will work (+ adding new kernel modules on the filesystem)?

Post #2
mbm
26 May 2006, 01:22

We didn't exactly provide any extra padding around the kernel, that alone will make it extremely difficult to do anything to the kernel.

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