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Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress!

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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP (Post 1009283)

Wow, this is amazing work zazun! Gratz on your guide! Unfortunately I do not have a USB port on my N900 anymore so I cannot try it out... :( but still is great work!

Everything is possible to do without connecting the phone to the computer. :)
However, it is very dangerous. In the event that something goes wrong you will not be able to save your phone.

Installing on eMMC

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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP (Post 1009283)

I do have a little question, out of curiosity, how come nobody seems to be able to dual or triple boot from the eMMC? Aren't we able to partition the 32gb to show up as multiple drives and install the different OS onto them?

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Originally Posted by titi974 (Post 1009288)

yes of course ;)
....
edit : because install on eMMC is dangerous... you'll need to repartition it and it could corrup your system =S

It is possible but very difficult to implement.

Maemo uses three partitions:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 - FAT32 - ... /MyDocs/ - visible when connected to a PC,
/dev/mmcblk0p2 - Linux - Program Files,
/dev/mmcblk0p3 - swap.
The order and file system ensures proper operation.
I shrunk the p1 of 4GB. I added 2GB to p2. I added a 2GB p4.

Meego uses three partitions:
/dev/mmcblk1p1 - Linux - System
/dev/mmcblk1p2 - Swap
/dev/mmcblk1p3 - FAT32 - booting file.

Android uses two partitions:
/dev/mmcblk1p1 - FAT32
/dev/mmcblk1p2 - Linux - system
P1 - necessary. P2 must be 2GB? Market should then work.

How to install Android or Meego on extended partition eMMC /dev/mmcblk0p4?
It still should be pretty easy.
How to install on it Meego and Android?
One in an extended partition eMMC /dev/mmcblk0p4 and the second on an SD card.
It probably would be most sensible solution.

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress!

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Originally Posted by zazun (Post 1009312)

Meego uses three partitions:
/dev/mmcblk1p1 - Linux - System
/dev/mmcblk1p2 - Swap
/dev/mmcblk1p3 - FAT32 - booting file.

/dev/mmcblk1p2 is a faked swap partition.
Really now MeeGo 1.2 uses /dev/mmcblk0p3 as Swap Partition (the same used by Maemo)

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress!

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Originally Posted by misiak (Post 1008554)

I will try that later, but with one repartitioned SD card ;)

Any luck with that? :) Would be great if we only needed one SD card.

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress!

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Originally Posted by ikirk (Post 1010031)

Any luck with that? :) Would be great if we only needed one SD card.

No, not yet, at the moment my only >4gb card is busy trying to run backtrack, but it should be possible (I don't know anything which could prevent this)

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress!

simple question, why do you want to use a repartitioned sd card ? to be able to still use it in maemo ?

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress!

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Originally Posted by titi974 (Post 1010665)

simple question, why do you want to use a repartitioned sd card ? to be able to still use it in maemo ?

I like messing with my N900, and so I do with NITDroid and so I will do with MeeGo. And I want to create a separate NITDroid and Meego partitions on one memory card, because:
- if I break something, I can just remove sd card and boot to Maemo
- I don't have to carry with me 2 sd cards and swap them to have triple boot Maemo/NITDroid/MeeGo (lol, I usually carry 3 or 4 of them anyway, but more important is I won't need to swap them in device ;) )

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress! -2'nd NIT on eMMC

huum okay, but you could install (like me) nitdroid in the eMMC and meego on the sdcard...

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress! -2'nd NIT on eMMC

This also works for Meego-1.2DE.

If you use power47 then you need to shutdown. boot into omap1 then shutdown again the select omap2 and start the device again to get to meego.

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress! -2'nd NIT on eMMC

is it possible that maemo, maemo w/ kernel 47 and nitdroid repartitioned in the internal memory of the phone while meego on the microsd?

i'm planning to try it but wanna know if it's possible and safe...

Re: Meego, NITDroid, Meamo, power kernel, uboot 2SD cards - my way - work in progress! -2'nd NIT on eMMC

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Originally Posted by cloudstrife1ph (Post 1026971)

Yes it is.

Nitdroid on eMMC (if repartitioned) and MeeGo on microsd.

It is also possible Nitdroid and MeeGo on eMMC (2 different partitions)