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Low FAT by gutemine Version 0.9.0 from 24.10.2009
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Low FAT by gutemine Version 0.9.0 from 24.10.2009
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Low FAT stands for Low Level automatic FAT Image extraction
and Booting.
The DM 7025 can boot from a CF Card and the DM 800 and DM 8000
can boot from an USB stick if these are formatted in FAT and the Bios
is changed accordingly.
Low FAT is a kind of mini root which allows you to
format the needed device of your Box on a PC in FAT, extract the
LowFAT_X.X.X.zip on the root of this newly formatted device and
copy the choosen nfi image file also in the root of this device.
Be carefrull, the LowFAT device hast to be 512MB or larger,
or should have at least 300MB free space and be formatted in FAT.
That's all, there is nothing to be installed on your Dreambox, except changing the Bios:
For changing the Bios the same entries apply as for the
Wally West Plugin.
In case of the dm7025 this means:
primary boot source : cf [/autoexec_dm7025.bat ]
secondary boot source : flash
In case of the dm800 this means:
primary boot source : usb [/autoexec_dm800.bat ]
secondary boot source : flash
In case of the dm8000 this means:
primary boot source : usb [/autoexec_dm8000.bat ]
secondary boot source : flash
USB Support has to be enabled in Bios in all cases, the prerun
can be disabled in case you have problems when the box hangs
when turned on.
You can change the console command string in bios but have to
be aware that LowFAT has its own console command string in the
autoexec_dm*.bat files, so it will only be passed to the
kernel in case of booting from Flash.
If you then plug the LowFAT device to your Dreambox and boot
the Dreambox on the first time the nfi image file will
be converted to an lowfat.lfi image file which is an ext3
formatted file located in the root of your device and containing
the entire content of the nfi file which is then bootable
on thw next boot.
This image conversion takes a few minutes, during which you will
see the LowFAT Bootlogo on your TV screen and the LCD/OLED Progress
Bar should move (at least from time to time). If the Progress Bar
is at 100% the image conversion is completed (the nfi file is
deleted on completing teh conversion).
Turn off your box if it doesn't reboot automatically, and if
you then turn it on again the converted image should
boot now from the LowFAT device.
The Flash image will be completely unchanged during this procedure,
but it should contain an up to date secondstage loader !
If you want to boot a different image from your LowFAT device
simply move it again to your PC, copy the new nfi file to it and
repeat the procedure. if you want you can rename the previous
lowfat.lfi or save it on the PC, so that you can boot it at a
later time again without any conversion from nfi file anymore.
So only the current lowfat.lfi file will be bootet, until an
nfi file is found for conversion, then the current lowfat.lfi
is erased and replaced with the conversion of the nfi file !
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Have fun Booting images from your LowFAT device with LowFAT !!!
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