Root [Boost Mobile] Now I'm a Super User, but Stuck

[cmpyutr]

I go into terminal emulator. Get a $ prompt. Enter su root, get a # prompt. Thought I could cp myfile sdcard (/mnt/sdcard). Nope, cp is not an available command. So I try mv. mv works to rename, but when I try to mv myfile /mnt/sdcard, get a message about failure due to cross link. Typical message ya get, I read, when one of the devices is not mounted. I'm thinking /mnt/sdcard is mounted, and so is wherever I am when I am at /. Can anyone help me copy a file over to the sdcard, so I can upload to my pc and analyze it?

 

[Skinnyjeans21]

you might have to run that command through adb after the command "adb shell" w/o the quotes. I think thats an adb command not something that can be executed via terminal emulator

 

[jimsmith80]

It all depends on how your simlinks are set up. To run the cp command on the stock rom with root you have to run toolbox cp /path/to/file /destination/of/copy

 

[cmpyutr]

It all depends on how your simlinks are set up. To run the cp command on the stock rom with root you have to run toolbox cp /path/to/file /destination/of/copy

Okay, thanks. "toolbox", is that busybox? which I understand is likely installed to supplement the meager commands present in the os. If so, then do you mean

/path/to/busybox/folder cp /path/to/file /destination/of/copy ?

Like /bin/cp /data/myfile /mnt/sdcard/myfile, where I know I have a simlink for example which is sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard. So is "toolbox" a simlink for where busybox files are?

Thanks.

 

[cmpyutr]

Okay, little more investigation on my part. I notice from the output of ls -l that I get this:

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2013-12-20 22:48 cat -> toolbox
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2013-12-20 22:48 chmod -> toolbox
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2013-12-20 22:48 chown -> toolbox

and so on.

So I typed:

$toolbox ls

which gave me valid output, but when I typed

$toolbox cp

output was

cp: no such tool

So apparently, my simlinks are fine, cuz my "mv" command worked, but cp is just not one of the commands available in the toolbox. I figure, like skinnyjeans said, I could use adb shell. But if I knew Linux better, maybe I could copy over a file from somewhere to the sdcard, maybe with "dd". dd appears to be a tool in the toolbox. how about dd path/to/infile path/to/outfile? Just don't wanna get in trouble, y'know?

Thanks.

 

[cmpyutr]

Okay, think I got it now. From terminal emulator, you got:

$

then, cuz the file was in a directory that I didn't have access to, unless I was root, I did

$su root

Dangerous, ladies and gents. Be careful.

so now I got

#

then I did

#dd if=myfile of=/mnt/sdcard/myfile
98+1 records in 98+1 records out

#exit
$exit

Scary. Glad I didn't reverse the if= and the of=. data destruction

 

[jimsmith80]

Now that your rooted installing busybox is a simple as downloading an app from the play store. It will set up the simlinks for you, so all you will need to do is run cp.

 

[cmpyutr]

Currently running droidsmith rom. Isn't busybox included in droidsmith?

 

[jimsmith80]

Currently running droidsmith rom. Isn't busybox included in droidsmith?

Yes it is