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Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

go to youtube and you will see working NITdroid phone....

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

check youtube and you will see there is one working...

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

I never tested meego but I've read the way to boot is using flasher -l instead of flasher -r. This method load the kernel and boot it but when you reboot it doesn't stay.
I think you can talk to Jay-C for add this in multiboot.
Then you can boot meego, android and maemo without using a pc.

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

hello guys,

according to stskeeps you cannot use meego with multiboot.
nevertheless, to use meego and nitdroid in parallel (the first
one requires flashing via usb) you can do the following:

1) as meego uses dd and changes the dimensions of your
sd you should extract the meego rootfs via kpartx as mentioned
above

2) you can tell the nitdroid installer script to install to the
n-partition of your sd card (thanks to the nitdroid theme)

so far i have 4 partitions:

1. meego rootfs
2. meego swap
3. nitdroid rootfs
4. placeholder for ubuntu

using multiboot i can boot to maemo, nitdroid and 4. using
the flasher with -l option boots into 1.

Blues

p.s. it would be great to consider the backupmenu within
multiboot but this doesnt seem to work.

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

hey blues.. do you have a wiki for that???

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

thanks in advance blues...

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

below you find my personal notes installing meego on an
sdhc card which also contains a nitdroid installation, several
details are missing.

remark: this works for me but it may damage your card, n900,
life or whatever. use it on your own risk.

1. partitions: i use 4 partitions on an 8 gb sdhc card.
the dimensions are as follows

Code:

Platte /dev/sdb: 8168 MByte, 8168931328 Byte

252 Köpfe, 62 Sektoren/Spuren, 1021 Zylinder

Einheiten = Zylinder von 15624 × 512 = 7999488 Bytes

Disk identifier: 0x000d05ef



   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System

/dev/sdb1               1         320     2499809   83  Linux

/dev/sdb2             321         352      249984   83  Linux

/dev/sdb3             353         595     1898316   83  Linux

/dev/sdb4             596        1021     3327912    6  FAT16

the 1st partition contains the meego rootfs and should be at least 2 gb.

the 2nd one is a meego swap partition and should be at least 256 mb.

the 3rd partition contains the nitdroid rootfs and should be smaller than 1.9 gb afair.

the 4th one is for data and can be ignored.

2. meego installation:

2a) i downloaded

Code:

meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-proprietary-1.0.90.1.20100831.1-vmlinuz-2.6.35.3-5.2-n900

and

Code:

meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-proprietary-1.0.90.1.20100831.1-mmcblk0p.raw.bz2

from nokias webpage

Code:

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/meego-codedrop.php

using my imei which is as follows ... (just a joke).

2b) i unzipped the bz2 file:

Code:

bunzip2 meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-proprietary-1.0.90.1.20100831.1-mmcblk0p.raw.bz2

2c) i use kpartx to extract the meego rootfs on my linux pc:

Code:

kpartx -a -v 

meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-proprietary-1.0.90.1.20100831.1-mmcblk0p.raw

this gives me additional loop devices, the first one i mount as follows:

Code:

mkdir ~/meego_temp

mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/loop1p1 ~/meego_temp

cd ~/meego_temp

tar cvf ../meego-rootfs.tar *

cd ..; umount meego_temp

2d) now i can extract the meego-rootfs.tar on the 1st partition
of my sdhc card as usual.

2e) i put the sdhc card in my n900, turn off the device and flash
the downloaded kernel via

Code:

flasher-3.5 -k meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-proprietary-1.0.90.1.20100831.1-vmlinuz-2.6.35.3-5.2-n900 -l -b

this will boot into meego.

3) installing nitdroid:

the important part for installing it on the 3rd partition is to edit

Code:

/usr/bin/nitdroid-installer

and replace

Code:

ROOT_DEV='/dev/mmcblk1p1'

with

Code:

ROOT_DEV='/dev/mmcblk1p3'

Blues

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

thanks for the nice guide... anyway to do it on a windows XP???

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Quote:

Originally Posted by firstknight (Post 808425)

thanks for the nice guide... anyway to do it on a windows XP???

i am sorry, but my last private experience with windows dates
back more than one decade, i remember that i installed
windows 98se at least 10 times at one (!) weekend and decided
to switch to something different:-)

Blues

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Quote:

Originally Posted by BluesLee (Post 809852)

i remember that i installed
windows 98se at least 10 times at one (!) weekend and decided
to switch to something different:-)

After I installed windows XP like 5 or 7 times in two days I easily found job of windows system administrator.

Still two years later I switched to Linux and left this job.

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

if that is the case, i need to do all that on my n900... can those guides be done on the n900?

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

er... blues... can that guide be done in n900??

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

the partition meego swap ...... what for ??

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Hey Blues, I've tried using your guide but am stuck at mounting loop1p1 when executing the command :

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/loop1p1 ~/meego_temp

it gives me :

Code:

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/loop1p1,

       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

       dmesg | tail  or so

any help would be appreciated !! :)

--Edit--

I managed to get it working :D

i just used :

Code:

mount /dev/mapper/loop1p1 ~/meego_temp

instead of :

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/loop1p1 ~/meego_temp

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Just wanted to let you know I just got Maemo 5, MeeGo and Nitdroid Running side-by-side; it just goes to uboot first, then heads on to multiboot, that way I have all the options :-)

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

is meego worth it at all in its current state?

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

I took the latest build from the meego repo, and it's really quite.... develop-ish, with lots of strange labels and so on... maybe I should try the demo-release from last year, that might be more suitable.

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

I am having problem when i type the method for partition of my mmc it say sfdisk not found

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Quote:

Originally Posted by shardul (Post 974537)

I am having problem when i type the method for partition of my mmc it say sfdisk not found

I guess you're trying it without becoming the root user first?

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

or sfdisk not installed?
root
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install sfdisk
sfdisk /dev/mmcbl***

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Quote:

Originally Posted by eL.ectron1k (Post 974621)

or sfdisk not installed?
root
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install sfdisk
sfdisk /dev/mmcbl***

Code:

# dpkg -S /sbin/sfdisk

busybox: /sbin/sfdisk

(this shows that sfdisk is part of the busybox package which is one of the defaults packages installed.)

Re: Maemo 5 | Nitdroid | MeeGo | Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic