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Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1406223)

That message comes when init cannot find the menuscript "select_and_boot_os.sh" from your CPIO.
Usually that means that you have managed to put in incompatible CPIO or corrupted the one you are loading....

What is your ubiboot version number?

If you cannot boot any OS now, what you should do is connect the USB cable to a computer and go to the ubiboot maintanance mode.
Then you can telnet to the device and check what is the state of the FS, and why the menuscript is not found.

As a temporary measure you can just flash a normal Harmattan Open Mode kernel (like the L2-fixed kenel, for example...)

If you do so, and manage to boot up Harmattan, please could you post your ubiboot.log file so I can check what is the cause of the problem?
On versions older than 0.3.5 the loaction is /var/log/ubiboot.log and on newer versions /home/user/MyDocs/ubiboot.log

sir, i have flashed main.bin to recover.atleast my harmattan is up..dont know why suddenly all of sudden after a reboot.i got this error....i couldnot find ubiboot.log in MyDocs.i am using ubiboot specially for sailfishn harmattan.i can see a folder named "de" inn MyDocs..will that help?

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Originally Posted by Sunnyteki (Post 1407004)

Sorry, I had a typo there, the correct location is /home/user/MyDocs/boot/ubiboot.log
Can you find that file?

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

After my last trouble with ubiboot I need to enter the passwords at each bootup, even if I remove the accounts. Any ideas why?

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

I think it something related to openmode. i saw something in some guide about flashing or so.

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1407957)

After my last trouble with ubiboot I need to enter the passwords at each bootup, even if I remove the accounts. Any ideas why?

You need to use back-to-back Closedmode-Openmode flashing, that way you will avoid all the ugly aegis-related problems in Open Mode.

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

no need to flashing :)
just remove your accounts, /home/user/.accounts and /home/user/.aegis, reboot and create accounts again.

private keys changed when switched to openmode, and aegis no longer can encrypt own partitions to get passwords and etc :D

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Well, I didn't use closed mode at all in the meantime, but I'll try coderus' method and report

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Hi, would it be a nice idea to add a kind of "main" password directly in Ubiboot instead of one for each OS? :)

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1407985)

Well, I didn't use closed mode at all in the meantime, but I'll try coderus' method and report

It did work.

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Originally Posted by Lucazz990 (Post 1409317)

Hi, would it be a nice idea to add a kind of "main" password directly in Ubiboot instead of one for each OS? :)

Well yes, there are ways of doing that (encrypt all partitions, query for key in ubiboot, pass the authenticated token somehow neatly into the starting kernel's memory area...)

However, technically very difficult to achieve, unfortunately :p