Just a reply to myself:

Yes, remaining data are garbage (thanks to Grond for his confirmation). I have flashed Moldy cheese v0.2 cpio.secure to flash rom at 0x50000 and now i can use my 160GB (and probably bigger) HDD with moldy cheese (cpio.secure is loaded from ROM when loading from HDD fails ...

Since modifying the Flash is always a risky operation, I would appreciate if our great gurus out there could check my assumptions and confirm that the proposed solution is OK. Thanks in advance!

I think it will be much easier to just also flash the cpio to the bootrom where it is loaded from in ...

For Mac OS X compilation, i also had to add "/opt/local/lib/libz.a" to OBJS in Makefile:

OBJS = md5.o utility.o arch_crypto.o archutil.o \
aos_file.o /opt/local/lib/libssl.a /opt/local/lib/libcrypto.a /opt/local/lib/libz.a
Question:
The encryption key is now known. I should be able to update ...

Hi!

i'm curious about your cheesy stuff. Could you PM me some info for 605 160GB?

Thanks!

Why not simply download it directly from Archos?
http://update.archos.com/5/a605/a605_r1.7.13/firmware_a605.aos (605 20-160GB)

Despite not displayed on download page, older firmwares still can be downloaded: copy the link URL from a currently displayed one, and just modify the URL with the wanted ...

Of course, it is easier, but not really safer because it means that each time you want to update to a newer "moldy cheese" or test your own one, or even maybe "multiboot" between archos OS and Qtopia (by replacing cpio an rootfs files) you have to reflash, and if anything bad happens at this time ...

Since modifying the Flash is always a risky operation, I would appreciate if our great gurus out there could check my assumptions and confirm that the proposed solution is OK. Thanks in advance!

I think it will be much easier to just also flash the cpio to the bootrom where it is loaded from in ...

cpio.secure from harddrive will not load on 160gb units. don't know why. works fine in flash. this hack will not work 'out of the box' for 160gb units. that will be coming very shortly.


Hi everybody!

First, let me also congratulate Archilles. Very nice job! I was also working on this in order ...

This would most probably work. I had a modified 2.1.04 on my 1.7.13 bootloader.

Great! This is a good news.

Little out of topic: You say you have a modified 2.1.04, so it is no more correctly signed. Did you patch the bootloader to avoid signature checking?

By the way, i have a dump of the ...

Hi!

I'm just wondering: could it be possible to use this method to run latest 2.1.04 OS on a pre-1.7.13 device without upgrading the bootloader and keeping flash unlocked?

This way one could be able to run the latest software to take benefit of enhancements and bugs corrections, and could revert ...

Hi,

May be a solution to change HDD serial number: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=28074
A quick google search for HDDL: http://www.ihdd.ru/download/software/hddl/ (but README file is in russian!)

I've not tested this at all, and i don't even know if archos HDDs are Fujitsu! Try at your ...

Hi,

I've tried this procedure with a battery dock and 3 different USB/serial adapters, but each time i get the "USB device not supported" message.

I've checked /etc/inittab on my A605 (i still have 1.7.06 so i can use GFT exploit):
# Set up a couple of getty's
# tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ...