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@taixzo
two requests (just personally from my side): after such amount of posts betwenn your posts please include a short/your prob'em description or a link. And cut your log file down to the problematic section (it really was a PITA to look after). Good was you used pastebin and did not spam this thread with log texts (smth I really hate).

OK, to your problem. It is obvious:
Either you have a mismatch in ubiboot.conf (not pointing nemo/sailfish to p4) or you have made a mistake during extraction or there is no filesystem at all on p4.
check with
devel-su
mkdir /mnt/p4
mount /dev/mmcblk0p4 /mnt/p4
ls /mnt/p4
If you find the files, then it is ubiboot.conf problem. Check yourself or show...

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Because it seems that many people have trouble setting up ubiboot environment correctly, I have released a special SailfishOS-version of ubiboot-02-0.3.5

This version contains preconfigured scripts to boot Harmattan and any release of SailfishOS installed to normal location on ALT_OS partition.
Additionally, there are only 2 icons on the startup screen.
The l2-fixed kernel and harmattan preinit file si included

Get the version from here.
Read the documentation before installing.

so there.

---------- edit ----------

Mirror site for the archive on skeiron server.
As well as documentation

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There is no filesystem on p4:

My Alt_OS partition seems to be /dev/mmcblk0p2. /dev/mmcblk0p4 is the extended partition, so the actual filesystems are on partitions 1,2,3,5 and 6.

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Nice one.
Next request will be DEB file for single-click installation ... .:p

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@taixzo
If you choose the hard way ;) by creating extended partition, then you should know where your OS should go.
Please check for p5 and/or p6 then (of course).

--
Oh, and if your nemo/sailfish is really on p2, then your harmattan needs also adaptation (as said before) ...

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Yeah well, anything to please the public :D:D
But seriously, I was once contemplating on creating a DEB of ubiboot install but (un)fortunately it is not possible since the internal flasher seems to refuse to flash unsigned binaries.

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it might be easier for a lot of people to have a Deb package to install config, cpio and scripts 'n stuff so that the only thing they'd have to do then is to flash the kernel after install...

We believe in you :D

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Hi,juiceme. I am Fotix :)
Have u ever thought about add chinese language version to make more people in China use the great software?
Or maybe I can help translate.:D

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That would be nice, since I do not speak chinese.
If you could do translation of the documentation, that would be beautiful :)

As for the texts in the ubiboot itself, the menu symbols are graphic, just easy to change if anybody wants to do that, as well as the info panel that is accessed by the "i" button on the menu, that's easy also.

It is more difficult to change the error messages and such, as I think there's not chinese font for text2screen that I am using to write that text.
It could be possible to replace at least the boot error texts with pictures... yes that is doable! :D

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hi juiceme
your message box in maemo.org is full ?
can i contact you ?
thanks for reserved icon in ubiboot :)
i need some help for add backup menu in ubiboot

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great job! I cant wait to do it. which of the files do i need to download? and what do i need to do if i finish the translation?

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Yes, so many people have tried to send mail to me, and mailbox only holds 300 messages :mad:
I'll try to empty it...

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Well, as I'd say, maybe getting documentation translated to chinese would be most important, but how to express that, what character set is used? Unicode propably.
The README file is the definitive documentation.

As for the info and error messages, here are the english texts which could be translated in chinese:

Welcome to N9 Ubiboot ver. 0.3.5
(Boot loader is based on MOSLO ver.0.0.13.1)

Please run a maintanance boot

eMMC device not found!

Booting to default OS unsuccessful!

Cannot find default OS loadscript!

Unable to load the USB modules!

Partitons exported successifully via USB

Configured 192.168.2.14 on USB

Setting IP address failed!

Boot configuration not found!

Boot menu archive not found!

Version mismatch in configuration files!

Boot OS/kernel selection failed!

Animated boot menu script not found!

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I already fixed my harmattan, but I don't know what I need to change in ubiboot.conf to change where it checks for OSs. They all seem to be set to the same partition by default.

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In each OS section of ubiboot.conf you have the key G_OSx_PARTITION which describes the partition that contains the kernlels. As it happens, each OS is also launched as that partition set to the root device.

So, if for example you have your ALT_OS on your partition 2, you would want to set G_OS<whatever>_PARTITION="2"

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Ok. I set them all to the one they're on and now Nemo is working, but Nitdroid and Firefox OS are still not. Do they have something else I need to change?

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preinits should be placed correctly

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Yes, it seems that 80% of the boot problems people have is due to missing the preinits.
I did put the harmattan preinit in the sailfish-preconfigured packet and I am seriously considering that maybe I should put those also to the mainline package and release it as a fix...

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I still have my Nitdroid and FFOS preinits in /sbin/. I would imagine that ubiboot should be able to find them, as they are in the same folder as the Nemo preinit, which is working.

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I do not understand what you mean by Nemo preinit??
Nemo (Like SailfishOS) do not use /sbin/preinit* on the Harmattan root partition, instead they use /sbin/init from their own partition... :)

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ok, I am slightly confused. I thought that all the preinits were in the harmattan partition, as that was where the preinit_harmattan and preinit_nitdroid were. So the start of my entry for nitdroid looks like:

On rootfs partition (/dev/mmcblk0p3 on my setup) in /sbin/ I have /sbin/preinit, /sbin/preinit_harmattan, /sbin/preinit_firefox and /sbin/preinit_nitdroid. And the partition with my nitdroid files is /dev/mmcblk0p5, which contains /nitdroid, /firefox_os, /developer and /user.

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confused with what? you using mmcblk0p5 for nitdroid, set G_OS1_PARTITION to 5 then.

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For Nitdroid there's a lot of possibilities to set it up, since it's started as a chroot environment, so basically where you put it and how decrees what you mount in your preinit.

But I still wonder about your Nemo preinit, what do you use that for?

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I was confused because the comments say that G_OS_PARTITION refers to the partition that the kernel is on, and I thought the kernel was on my rootfs partition (at any rate, I've got a nitdroid kernel in /boot on mmcblk0p3, and setting G_OS1_PARTITION to 5 gives me the dreaded "Please run a maintanance boot" screen (whereas setting it to 3 merely gives me a black screen)).

No idea; it came with Nemo, I didn't touch it.

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So is there something I should change in my preinit_nitdroid to make it look in the right place for things to mount?

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-- edit
Yes, exactly (you were faster ;))

@taixzo
What about reflashing back to stock partitioning ?
And use moslo p4 for nemo/sailfish. It seems like you dnkwtd ...

If you set the nitdroid / firefox to different partition than p3/home, then you will need to adapt the specific preinits themselves internally.

@coderus: yes, as kernel (nitdroid one) is probably on harmattan rootfs. [may also be different, but here it will be like that]
--edit
erm, NO. Got also confused with taixzos layout again. ubiboot.conf needs to point to kernel partition, preinit_nitdroid needs to mount nitdroid home partition. Sorry.

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You are correct, G_OS_PARTITION tells bot the location of the kernel and also that the partition is to be mounted as root for that kernel.
Setting it to 5 and having no kernel there will of course give you an error since the system will kook for kernel and find none.
Setting it to 3 will find your kernel and boot it, but if your preinit script is not finding your Nitdroid installation the kernel will panic and just hang there doing nothing.

Why did you talk about Nemo preint, then??

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Of course.
It's okay to change locations and assignments on your device just as you please but do not feel surprised if you only do a partial change to some parts of boot process and end up with nonfunctioning device :)

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I wanted to have an extended partition so as to be able to run six OSs on my N9. As I already have the most essential one (Harmattan) working again, I am probably going to stick with this layout if I can.

Ok, that makes sense.

Because along with the preinit_harmattan, preinit_nitdroid and preinit_firefox, there was just a plain preinit and as the ubiboot.conf just has "preinit" for Nemo, I assumed that that was the nemo preinit.

What changes would I need to make to the preinit script to make it boot from a different partition? I don't really understand how that script works.

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Well, if you review the preinit files against each other, you will see that both the Nitdroid preinit and Firefox preinit work the way that you create a mountpoint for a partition where you have the the directory that contains the filesystem, and then mount that to /mnt and chroot the /init of the OS you want to run.

I'd imagine you should be able to boot by setting that mount to point to the location of your OS.
The kernel and rootFS should be the same as Harmattan rootfs location. (altough if you want to, you might change this also, but the you'd need to have access to the /bin to get the needed tools; mount, chroot, whatever....)

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Is it possible to reflash only harmatan on udiboot ?????

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Yes, of course.

In fact the first version of ubiboot I had only contained way to chainload different kernels, not to load any different OS'es.

You can use it just like that as is, you can just configure the G_OS<n>_NUM keys to be "0" for the OS'es you do not want to be shown any kernel listing.

If you'd like to have the menu just with Harmattan icon, that is also possible, but it requires a recompile of the CPIO (which itself is just a few minutes job...)

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@taixzo
Here you go ...

Please have in mind I have working harmattan on p5, so you need to set ot to where ever your harmattan rootfs is. And I have my nit and firefox also on p5, so hopefully this will help and not confuse more.
Please omit all those echo changes ;)

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Help can't remember password here isn't it 'rootme'?:confused::

root@garp-Lenovo-B590:/home/garp# ssh -i my_n9_identity root@192.168.2.15
Warning: Identity file my_n9_identity not accessible: No such file or directory.
************************************************** ******
* Welcome to RM-696 ubiboot-02 maintanance console *
************************************************** ******

root@192.168.2.15's password:

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@Garp you should login as nemo, not root. password set in developer mode settings. to gain root you should use devel-su later.

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Just deleting earlier long story just telling:
To get root access in Ubuntu 12.04 (and maybe even 13.10?) in Ubiboot maintenance mode N9, just in Ubuntu Alt-F2 and key-in gksu nautilus then you have root access to all of it!;):p

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@coderus, AFAIK @garp was trying to ssh into ubiboot console, not to Nemo/Sailfish (where the password is "nemo" in some versions...)

There's no password set for root in ubiboot, instead to use ssh/sftp to access ubiboot maintanance console, you need to use keypairs. (this is a security feature really)

To use ssh/sftp to access ubiboot maintanance console, you first have to make private&public keypair with ssh-keygen, then insert your public key into the G_SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEYS key in your ubiboot.conf.
Then, when logging into the device you need to use the private key, just like documented in your ubiboot.conf:

"ssh -i my_n9_identity root@192.168.2.15"

@garp, I do not quite follow up your logic here :confused:
Sure you need to create the keypair first, before engaging nautilus login...?

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Problems started when updated Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.10 before no problem with Ubiboot, have changed "host key and identity keypair" in Ubiboot.conf and no problems!
Tried to change "host key and identity keypair" in 13.10 but no success back to 12.04 and now again 13.10 result right now:

root@garp-Lenovo-B590:/home/garp# ssh -i my_n9_identity root@192.168.2.15
Warning: Identity file my_n9_identity not accessible: No such file or directory.
The authenticity of host '192.168.2.15 (192.168.2.15)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 81:12:12:b2:cd:a2:e1:b0:b1:ee:64:ea:b5:64:46:9d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.2.15' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
************************************************** ******
* Welcome to RM-696 ubiboot-02 maintanance console *
************************************************** ******

root@192.168.2.15's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@192.168.2.15's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@192.168.2.15's password:
Connection closed by 192.168.2.15
root@garp-Lenovo-B590:/home/garp#

Edit: After changing Ubiboot.conf "host key and identity keypair" again in 13.10, result:
root@garp-Lenovo-B590:/home/garp# ssh -i my_n9_identity root@192.168.2.15
************************************************** ******
* Welcome to RM-696 ubiboot-02 maintanance console *
************************************************** ******

root@192.168.2.15's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@192.168.2.15's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@192.168.2.15's password:
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
root@garp-Lenovo-B590:/home/garp#
:confused::confused:

Further by Alt-F2, command gksu nautilus you get root access in folder/files to all partitions: rootfs, home, Sailfish, Nemo

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Could be this reason above ^^ :)

Where do you have the private key "my_n9_identity" ?
when linux says "No such file or directory" it usually means you have not specified where to look for the file in question...

Now I am going to take a really wild guess and say it is in your .ssh/ directory, as that is the customary place to put keys into :D:D

So, the reason it works with Nautilus is that it goes and looks for the keys in the default ssh directory, and finds it there.

On command line, you should maybe try something like:

"ssh -i ~/.ssh/my_n9_identity root@192.168.2.15"

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See hole story in attachment!