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Actually, there is a way to do it :D
Just start the menuscript manually when you are in telnet/ssh session;

This command will launch the menu and when selection is done, reboot automatically to the selected OS: "/boot/menu/select_and_boot_os.sh"

This command will launch the menu and load up the kernel, but not boot device (so you can tweak the scripts, launch it again, etc...) : "/boot/menu/select_os_animated.sh"

Oh, well... ;)

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...This may be exactly what I was looking for...

Because to answer mcbook: In my case, I'm trying to recover fro a flat battery, and I keep getting the ubiboot menu instead of the computer recognizing there's something to flash.

Based on one of the things I read about it somewhere, I think I'd be having an easier time with this if I'd ever actually gotten anything besides Harmattan configured correctly before I stopped playing with it last...

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But this sounds more like a (flashing) driver problem. You are on Windows, right?
I have one laptop where I need to plug it in several times. And also to the extent that the N9 was not detected also. Plugging it in to another works always.
So what are you using?

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If the device is in power-OFF state and you connect it to computer, before it wakes up NOLO will check for flasher connection, and if it exists then flasher gets priority. If this does not happen there are 2 possibilities:

1.) Your flasher is not getting access to the USB port
2.) Your device is not in real power-off mode

For problem 1, you need to fix your PC
For problem 2, you might want to try to press and hold the N9 power button for about 30 seconds or until flasher notices that the device is connected when you plug it in.

Have you tried to run flasher -i and then connect and just let it charge for a while...

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After I select harmattan/nemo, the screen show:
Boot OS/kernel selection failed!
Please run a maintenance boot
boot fine when run the sh again and disconnect the usb.
I have not mount any partition or umount them all.

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I forgot to say that :)

The scripts assume that all your partitions are mounted under /mnt/1, /mnt/2, /mnt/3, ... etc
When init calls the script, partitions are mounted so. When you are in maintanance console, your partitions are exported via USB, and thus not mounted.

Before calling the scripts, you need to fo the following;

echo "" > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/gadget/lun0/file
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/1
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/2
mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/3
mount /dev/mmcblk0p4 /mnt/4
# (and also the rest of partitions, if you have more...)

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Hi, up running with Ubiboot at last:D
Gparted made it, creating Alt_os for Nemo

Thanks for all the help received at this place:):

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Thanks! It turned out I forgot to flash the new kernel. I flashed it and now I can boot again.

Edit: But I can only boot Harmattan. If I try to boot Android, Nemo or Firefox OS, the screen just goes black and stays that way.

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I suspect your preinit/init files hawe incorrect premissions, that seems to be the most common problem.
I have a new version 0.3.6 coming which includes checks for these kind of problems, too, but I was not going to release it until btrfs support is ready... :p

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Installing kernel plus for Harmattan in Ubiboot. Unpack:
tar xvzf /mnt/1/linux_2.6.32.61-plus-20131128.tar.gz -C /mnt/2

But how to do the depmod: depmod -a 2.6.32.61-plus?:confused:

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@Garp boot current harmattan kernel and do it in terminal :)

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depmod not found?:confused:

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Ok, I changed them to have correct permissions, and now Android and Firefox OS work but Nemo still just gives a black screen.

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Read changelog yesterday and fix manually (see 'older') or just download latest image.
btw first boot always take looonger and may show no screen at all. Just connect via usb and ssh/telnet and reboot.

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CaN anyone show the full tutorial with help of a video...??? It will be alot easier if someone upload a video tutorial for ubiboot... Plzzz someone take the job... Its a request.... PLzzz!

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Thanks! Updated the image and it booted fine! (Though I remember the older images being more usable than this one, for example the wifi used to work.)

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Is it really still like this?
That was the reason to not install latest x11 image from June but stay on April version.
But hey ... You have wayland now ;)

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I don't think it's 1, because when it was coming up to the ubiboot console, if I unplugged it and replugged at that point, flasher was clearly detecting SOMETHING it thought was relevant (and then saying it timed out waiting for the flashing interface, or something like that...if I can't get it to do something more productive than that, I'll pastebin it--probably in another thread). But thanks for the advice.

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@peterleinchen @taixzo wifi working in latest Nemo. something broken with you or your phone :D
and with wayland nemo you can use most of Sailfish apps on it ;)

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I'm not sure if its totally off topic here, but I have a correctly working UbiBoot setup with nemo (sailfish lipstick), android, harmattan and firefox installed.

Let's just say that I want to restore the phone to it's full original state. My question is that do I have to do anything with the partition created for Nemo, or all I have to do is to reflash the phone with the original arm & emmc.bins?

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You have all possibilities,
depending on what you want to achieve.

1. full reset to factory state
flash fw and emmc with option --no-preserve

2. only get rid of ubiboot
flash only the kernel --flash-only=kernel
you may remove nitdroid/firefox folder and MyDocs/boot
partition 4 will stay and may be used for other means

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So if I want to get rid of partition 4 (on which Nemo mobile is installed, I guess?), and attach it back to harmattan's EMMC (as it was set by factory), I'll have to use Moslo again, right?

Or if I use the --no-preserve option, will it "automatically" restore all the partitions & other stuff to it's default states?

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Thanks. Sorry if I seem to be a bit dumb, but I am. That's why I ask twice (or even more) before I do anything.

EDIT:
Thanky fo patience, it looks like a succesful flash.

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Have searched can't find!
Anyone as I have problems with 'Mail for Exchange' with Ubiboot?
I can't connect to server in N9 with Ubiboot (both l2fix and plus kernels) - no problem in my N9 without Ubiboot (l2fix kernel)?:confused:

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Well that is strange indeed.

There used to be problem with SIP when using ubiboot and that was caused by the preinit script that was used back then, it was the same one used by Nitdroid and it had USB networking enabled which caused SIP to try to route packets to wrong interface.

However, that has been corrected by the new preinit script which is same as original Harmattan preinit. I wonder if there is something similar here.

Can you do "ls -la /sbin/pre*" on Harmattan console, are your /sbin/preinit and /sbin/preinit_harmattan identical?

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Ok, I have a problem now. I tried to repartition using GParted to add an extended partition, so I backed up all the data on my Alt_OS, rootfs and the other partition which holds the Nitdroid files, and then repartitioned. I recreated the partitions I'd deleted, and untarred the files back into them. However, none of my OS's boot anymore. I verified that the partition numbers are still the same (i.e. rootfs is on /dev/mmcblk0p3), and now I don't know what to do. All the files are there, the permissions are the same as they used to be, and the partitions are the same - what am I missing?

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ls -la /sbin/pre*
N9 openmode kernel l2fix
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16210 Oct 7 2012 /sbin/preinit

N9 Ubiboot plus and l2fix kernel:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10661 Sep 2011 /sbin/preinit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5754 Nov 1 08:32 /sbin/preinit_firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10661 Oct 4 06:25 /sbin/preinit_harmattan
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5752 Feb 28 2013 /sbin/preinit_nitdroid

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@garp
I have also no idea what could be wrong. And cannot imagine ubiboot to be the cause for MfE problems (but hey nobody believed me with SIP ;)). Unfortunately you will be on your own to find out as nobody else experiences this.
Are you sure you boot L2fix and not stock kernel?


Self-made problem?
Original partition layout:
p1 vfat MyDocs (lots of GB)
p2 ext4 rootfs (4 GB)
p3 ext4 home (2 GB)
p4 empty not-in-use (0 GB)

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Current partition layout:
p1 vfat MyDocs (29 GB)
p2 ext4 Alt_OS (4 GB)
p3 ext4 rootfs (4 GB)
p4 extended
p5 ext4 unnamed (2 GB)

This is the same partition layout as I had after installing nemo, except that I originally just had four partitions instead of one of them being an extended partition.

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YES, but you know if problems to have connect two N9/MfE and try sync contacts etc. on same mail address?

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@garp
afaik there is (should be) no problem having two/few devices configured.
Were both devoces online? If so put one into offline mode and try again...

@taixzo
read a few posts back (last page(s)).
Your partition layout differs from stock one. And that would mean you have edited fstab and init files? To match that?
Possibly you were confused by numbering and physical presence (number) on disk? Idk how gparted shows...

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You seem to be missing /home partition, or is that p5 in your layout?
Just as @peterleinchen said, check your /etc/fstab

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So you have 2 N9 devices, one with ubiboot and another without?
That's always good when doing development work :D

So it looks like you've got different preinits on the devices, as the one without ubiboot is 16210 bytes and the other is 10661 bytes.
Actually the Nokia-original /sbin/preinit is 10661 bytes, so I am not sure what is the preinit in the other N9, Nitdroid sillyboot, maybe?

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Oops, good catch. Did not see the 'other' device config at all. :(
So yes juiceme saw it and you should check/answer and maybe post that other preinit for comparison.

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Yes really big developer here!!:D:D

The preinit on N9 16GB could well be from the install of Nitdroid and sillyboot 2012 for a period (removed now), see attached?

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:D

Yep, trapped by some android relict (like me):
Just comment these 3 lines and it will be fine (I guess).