'at midnight, and by torchlight' i present: guy fawkes hack

[EiNSTeiN_]

@cpimentel: you're an idiot




someone had to say it

[nokiae50]

As nokiae50 suggest me by PM i put the firmware 1.6.54 in the root folder and a window showed up with available update; updating, the hack is removed and the A7 become jailed, into original conditions; installing again the hack was faster (i have the USB stick already )
He suggest too explain in a video the process of "how to hack the Archos gen 6", that would be more complicated as the process that only involve the use of linux commands such as:
mke2fs -t ext3 /dev/sde1
mount -t ext3 /dev/sde1 /mnt/sde1
cp /mnt/sdd1/mouldy_cheeze /mnt/sde1
cd /mnt/sde1
sudo chown root.99 mouldy_cheeze
sudo chmod ug+s mouldy_cheeze
Edit:
Beware; sdd1 and sde1 are my drivers; yours could be different.

Thanx a lot for confirming that we can revert back to the original firmware if needed.!!!

[jmacinit22]

Hi I am just learning about this jailbreaking and making apps. Will there be a forum/site where other peoples apps will be available?

[112wicked112]

whenever i try to install it i get to the part where we have to type the commands into terminal and i get the error sudo:root.99: command not found.... how do i fix this

[AugustFritze]

Can someone please give me step by step instructions on how to make this hack work on my archos.

[edembowski]

Can someone please give me step by step instructions on how to make this hack work on my archos.

Sure, take a look at the first post. If you want an explanation of that, take a look at my post in the Archos 5 forum. If you don't understand it, you should not try this.

- Ed

[edembowski]

@edembowski: Just so I understand, you were in avos, you plug your A5 in a mac and it shows 63 extra sectors? I can tell you that the extra 63 sectors are actually where the hidden partition is stored, but I don't understand why the mac see it and not linux.

You're right, that's very strange. I think it may just be a difference in how it's reported.

... Try to mount with the -o offset parameter like this:

mount -t ext3 -o offset=??? /dev/sdb /media/disk

I don't think the Mac supports the -o offset parameter, since that's just passed through to losetup. Right now I'm booted under Linux. Looking at the table,

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[email protected]:~# fdisk -l /dev/sde

Disk /dev/sde: 249.7 GB, 249727726080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30361 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1       30361   243874701    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I should have offset=249727726080. No joy. Looking at dmesg, I have "VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0." for every attempt. If I convert that to sectors, I should be able to

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dd if=/dev/sde of=ext3.par skip=487749465 bs=512

but that gets no joy as well. I'll try the dd under MacOS to see if the results are the same. I'm beginning to think that I should either open the archos or get the battery pack.

- Ed

[cpimentel]

@cpimentel: you're an idiot




someone had to say it

Thanks man! I think you should be super cool!!! @ss hole...

[ellopr]

Can someone of those that have said it work, be kind and tell me how I know is jailbreaked. What I should look for.

[cpimentel]

Can someone of those that have said it work, be kind and tell me how I know is jailbreaked. What I should look for.

gl to firmware... if you have all plugins it works.

[edembowski]

@EiNSTeiN_

I'm an ass. I'm misreading things under Mac (i'm more used to Linux). Here's the fdisk output under MacOS:

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lizard:~ ed$ fdisk /dev/rdisk4
Disk: /dev/rdisk4	geometry: 30361/255/63 [487749465 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 0C    0   1   1 - 1023 254  63 [        63 -  487749402] Win95 FAT32L
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused 

So, it's skipping the first cylinder (partition data, mbr, etc).

- Ed

[Analias]

/me hands Archilles a cold beer

There are plenty where that came from Archilles - you have earned it.

I just created a new dti game using your original files with a shell script that dumps various bits of information about my A7. It ran dutifully and dumped its output into /mnt/data/gf-dump.txt.

I had to upgrade 1.6.53 to do it but getting access like this is sweet. I'll now try to duplicate installing the arcwelder ssh server and see if I can get that to run.

-Analias

[Analias]

I had to upgrade 1.6.53 to do it but getting access like this is sweet. I'll now try to duplicate installing the arcwelder ssh server and see if I can get that to run.

As I suspected the original archwelder binary will have to be rebuilt. The installation script ran fine, but when I tried to generate a hostkey the binary failed to resolve all symbols.

-Analias

[EiNSTeiN_]

@edembowski: too bad! if you could write to the hidden partition, you could downgrade your .cramfs files to one of the earlier exploitable versions, but (at this moment) the only way to do this is to take out the hard drive and put it in an enclosure

[Redneck]

a bit of help please. im running ubuntu 9.04, live CD, and the terminal is kicking my a$$.

it either says it cannot find mouldy_cheeze or "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'" or something to that affect. what am i doing wrong? how can i fix this?

[edembowski]

a bit of help please. im running ubuntu 9.04, live CD, and the terminal is kicking my a$$.

it either says it cannot find mouldy_cheeze or "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'" or something to that affect. what am i doing wrong? how can i fix this?

More detail please.

[Redneck]

this: [email protected]:~$ sudo <chown root.99 mouldy_cheeze> sudo <chmod ug+s mouldy_cheeze>
returns this:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

either i am not getting something in there right or im really that bad with linux commands.

[2nafish]

That's the wrong code. Try this:

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sudo chown root.99 mouldy_cheeze; sudo chmod ug+s mouldy_cheeze

[doesnotcompute]

Just jailbreaked my Archos 5, after updating my firmware to 1.6.54 first. My hat goes off to you, Archilles; you have liberated us all

[Redneck]

That's the wrong code. Try this:

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sudo chown root.99 mouldy_cheeze; sudo chmod ug+s mouldy_cheeze

if i use that code it tells me that i cannon find file or path of "mouldy_cheeze" when i put a ";" in there then it says near unexpected token ";". ill try again but im not feeling positive about it.