OpenFrame 2: Recover from 'Upgrade'
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:20 am
The Story So Far
As a quick recap for those that don't already know, BuZz very kindly sent me an OpenFrame 2 recently. I powered it up and it was wonderful. You'll notice on that video that it attempted an update, and I powered it off before it had chance.
I took backups of the internal files (it booted from USB perfectly) and noticed it was reporting itself as an 'openpeaksdk' device. So in order to grab as many apps for the native OS as possible, I decided to let it complete it's update. Where's the harm?
When it rebooted, instead of an OpenPeak logo, there was a Telio logo. I wasn't keen, but hey, I could put that right later. It landed at a Telio-branded mush-up of the OpenPeak OS. It was half Danish, half English. Telnet wasn't working. SSH wasn't working. Not very impressive. So I decided to boot back into my maintenance Ubuntu build and take a copy of the files.
It wouldn't boot from USB.
It intermittently responded to the mash-ESC-repeatedly-to-get-to-EFI. It wouldn't boot from anything (fs1, fs2, fs3, etc) except fs0.
Hell.
And that's where we are today. Telio Touch branded, and seemingly completely locked down. There's a copy of a file called 'app-telio-30005.8931-S4-f2-reimage.tgz' that it upgraded from, which I managed to copy to /media before it shut down - but of course, I can't access it. There should also be a backup of the OpenPeak EFI on there, but I'll not trust that as I took it while the update was being applied.
Also, I can't figure out how the heck you open the thing. No visible screws, nothing under the sticker... just four mysterious holes near the rubber feet. No, no screws under the feet, either.
Help!
I'm going to document, at least briefly, what I go through to try and get this thing back to the state it was in the video. If you have any words of advice, ideas, anything at all - please jump in and say. If you can't say publicly, please send me a PM - anonymity assured! I just want to get this thing back up and running properly again. And Telio... if you told OpenPeak to lock this thing down so much, shame on you. Bad company.
There are three roads I'll try. The first is to keep trying with the EFI startup and get an external OS running again. That would be ideal. Second, attempt to get into the Telio OS in some way; I'm going to go back through the old Joggler hacking documentation and see what can be done. Third and finally... open the thing up and see if the EFI chip can be swapped.
Wish me luck!
As a quick recap for those that don't already know, BuZz very kindly sent me an OpenFrame 2 recently. I powered it up and it was wonderful. You'll notice on that video that it attempted an update, and I powered it off before it had chance.
I took backups of the internal files (it booted from USB perfectly) and noticed it was reporting itself as an 'openpeaksdk' device. So in order to grab as many apps for the native OS as possible, I decided to let it complete it's update. Where's the harm?
When it rebooted, instead of an OpenPeak logo, there was a Telio logo. I wasn't keen, but hey, I could put that right later. It landed at a Telio-branded mush-up of the OpenPeak OS. It was half Danish, half English. Telnet wasn't working. SSH wasn't working. Not very impressive. So I decided to boot back into my maintenance Ubuntu build and take a copy of the files.
It wouldn't boot from USB.
It intermittently responded to the mash-ESC-repeatedly-to-get-to-EFI. It wouldn't boot from anything (fs1, fs2, fs3, etc) except fs0.
Hell.
And that's where we are today. Telio Touch branded, and seemingly completely locked down. There's a copy of a file called 'app-telio-30005.8931-S4-f2-reimage.tgz' that it upgraded from, which I managed to copy to /media before it shut down - but of course, I can't access it. There should also be a backup of the OpenPeak EFI on there, but I'll not trust that as I took it while the update was being applied.
Also, I can't figure out how the heck you open the thing. No visible screws, nothing under the sticker... just four mysterious holes near the rubber feet. No, no screws under the feet, either.
Help!
I'm going to document, at least briefly, what I go through to try and get this thing back to the state it was in the video. If you have any words of advice, ideas, anything at all - please jump in and say. If you can't say publicly, please send me a PM - anonymity assured! I just want to get this thing back up and running properly again. And Telio... if you told OpenPeak to lock this thing down so much, shame on you. Bad company.
There are three roads I'll try. The first is to keep trying with the EFI startup and get an external OS running again. That would be ideal. Second, attempt to get into the Telio OS in some way; I'm going to go back through the old Joggler hacking documentation and see what can be done. Third and finally... open the thing up and see if the EFI chip can be swapped.
Wish me luck!