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uboot install corrupted, fw_printenv "permission denied"

Posted by cadre 
uboot install corrupted, fw_printenv "permission denied"
August 17, 2013 11:07AM
I've got a problem, I can't run fw_printenv without getting "permission denied"

I tried to install Jeff's uboot script last night on a brand new POGO-E02 but midway through the script my internet connection dropped and stayed out for over 5 minutes. When the internet feed came back up the script would not recover so I was forced to issue a Ctrl+C and stopped the script.

The components partially installed, but obviously the fw_printenv hosed up.

I attempted to re-run the script and it completes but the fw_printenv is unchanged and when I try to run it I get a "permission denied" error.

I believe this may be a simple fix. I do have good working POGO-E02 (uboot installed fine) as well hoping that would help in the solution, but so far I haven't been able to figure it out.

I tried to WinSCP / Putty to it to change permissions, but it's a read-only file system.

If anyone has any idea on how to get around this, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: uboot install corrupted, fw_printenv "permission denied"
August 17, 2013 03:50PM
Alright, I did manage to fix this problem. I simply remounted the /dev/root mount as read write.

mount -o remount,rw /dev/root

dowloaded the fw_printenv file from jeff's mirror website. changed it's permissions to 755 and overwrote the old version to the /usr/sbin folder

then changed the mount back to read only

mount -o remount,ro /dev/root

I've rebooted the system and can now execute fw_printenv fine now as well as surviving after a cold boot.

Hopefully everything else will work as expected later too.
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