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Re: Dual boot and KDE on the N810

i just started from scratch. actually for some unknown reason, after a couple weeks of running KDE on the external card my 810 crashed. i dont know if it was related, but since i had to re-flash anyway, i put it on the internal. havent had a prob since.

I was hoping the class 6 would make it faster, but it didnt, surprisingly it was slower and i dont know why.

also, it makes more sense to put it on the internal card anyway.. what if you want to put something on the external card (IE: music/video etc).

if you put the OS on there, its like ripping out the c: drive on a computer to put something on.

Re: Dual boot and KDE on the N810

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Originally Posted by bunanson (Post 192103)

you can clone your N800 OS and then move the card to your N810.

Cheers,

Of the two SD, the one with my two OS partitions was kept so I may try mirroring it on a miniSD. The tar switches are handy for more than just the maemo too. The issue now is going to be figuring a way to clone over only the changes when some new update flashed over the boot menu. I think rsync is going to be the thing for that though. So far it's only been the three flasher updates that meant updating the base OS before starting over with a clean duplicate on the SD.

Re: Dual boot and KDE on the N810

I just got N810 after 2 years of using N770 and couldn't be happier. Yesterday got 8GB SD card and decided to set up dual boot using 2GB internal SD as a second bootable partition. I did find instructions on this thread but did a slight variation of these as I did not want to partition internal SD and instead made it one ext2 partition. I had to make a slight change in bootmenu.sh so it is loading from the right partition, and it now boots from 2Gb SD, but my 8GB external card is not mounted at all.
When I boot from flash I get:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/mmc2 type ext2
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/mmc1 type vfat
When I boot from SD I get:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/mmc2 type ext2
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on / type ext2
All attempts to mount external SD manually were unsuccessful. I realize that most likely I need to make some changes in bootmenu.sh and re-flash, but for the life of me cannot figure out what - shell scripting is not my forte...

Please help!

TIA

Re: Dual boot and KDE on the N810

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Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen (Post 131044)

It's my understanding that Maemo Application Manager will use part of your MMC2 (internal card on the N810) for a temporary cache when installing apps. Also, Yes - the 128MB swap comes from MMC2. After setting up a ~1.5GB ext2 partition and the ~470MB FAT partition and activating 128MB of swap, I'm left with ~340MB of free space. I believe there is a way to make Maemo Application Manager stop using MMC2 during installs.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably only leave 200MB of FAT (128MB of which would be used for swap & the rest just for good measure) - because I don't really use it for storage.

Edit: I just realized that I called the internal drive wrong, so I've corrected this post. The Internal card is MMC2; the removable/external card is MMC1. Don't want to cause any confusion.

I think enabling RedPill Mode and unchecking "Use MMC to download packages" may prevent the N810 from cache-ing to MMC2, but I haven't tried this yet so do so at your own risk (worst comes to worst, you could probably just re-enable BluePill).