Hey guys here is the easiest way (IMO) to SBF. This has saved a lot of people and works great no matter which computer OS you use. All credit goes to 1KDS over at DroidXforums.com. Link to the OP! (<----- if links are broken, go here)
i actually just ran across this yesterday and burned the iso to a cd. I went as far as booting from it and running the linux build from the CD. Since i just recently bought a MacBook Pro this is a HUGE lifesaver for me. I really think the link to link to this should be added to the rooting guide sticky at the top of the thread. ...hint hint guides....
For sure it works on a mac. All I do is mac. Well I dual-boot snow leopard and ubuntu 10.04. And I wouldn't post something I didn't try I didn't even need to SBF but did anyway to check it out. Don't be scared when it says loading /boot/roofs.gz and then it fills your screen with yellow dots. It takes a few minutes. Edit: I put it in the stick with all the major links. I put the link to this thread so people can ask questions here as well.
i actually have already had someone in the Lounge suggest to me to use this method on my new MBP for sbf'ing. I may try it out for sh*ts and grins but i really feel that it will work. Like i said i went as far as booting from the cd (didn't have my phone connected) so i just bypassed the option of running the SBF script and booted into the linux os. So i think it will be awesome.
I just used this on Windows Vista flawlessly. RSD Lite couldn't get the job done, but this seems to have done the job
Does NOT work on powerpc. Just putting that out there if anyone other than me has one....lol Nice find, anyway!
...hey can't you also burn this to a thumb and do the same thing? How about an sd card? ....just wondering.
I read that somewhere on the droidx forum that it can be done. There is a link on how to do it on that page
yeah i have made a bootable thumbdrive that has my Win7 distro on it. I was thinking i would like to make another thumbdrive with just this on it. ..a thumb drive is more durable in my backpack and that way my cd drive isn't constantly spinning like its about to take off.
Not to mention that kind of constant vibration isn't good for a laptop. It tends to shake things loose over time. Kinda like my head.....lol
This rules. I couldn't SBF my X back to .340 using RSDLite. It kept failing. This worked like a charm.
I could never get RSD lite to work on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. So I finally installed RSD lite on my older Win 7 32 bit laptop, and it worked fine. But maaaaan was it frustrating to try many different options on my 64 bit rig before giving up. Wished I had seen this bootable linux option before that, but ohh well. If I SBF again I will try this option for sure.
This works great on my macbook pro. Just hold down the "C" key on your keyboard and it boots up off the CD. I have used it multiple times now. Thank You!
Oh it is. But with the amount of people saying they have issues with RSDlite and/or drivers, phone not being recognized and the like I figure this is easier. There are so many threads needing help with SBF'ing and RSDlite, just sayin. If you know what you're doing and have done it before doing it on Windows is not a problem.
just did it tonight and it worked flawlessly Much easier than doin it with RSD in Parallels (or alike) IMO
Haven't downloaded this yet, but if this is burned to a bootable flash drive, is it possible to just replace the .sbf file with an updated one should it ever become available?
