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juiceme

2014-06-28 18:08

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Serial USB console would be pretty good in most cases. You just need to initialize the driver fairly early in the boot process so that most of the kernel logs could be captured.
(and the best thing is you need no adapters for that, just the traditional ubiquitous USB computer cable...)

I doubt you could catch the very earliest oops'es like with a true serial console, but usually the hairiest stuff happen in pretty late phase anyway,,,

nieldk

2014-06-28 18:42

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

@juiceme

I know you have a 'private' kernel for the serial stuff, did you share that somewhere? or will you ;)

juiceme

2014-06-28 19:06

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by nieldk (Post 1431317)

@juiceme

I know you have a 'private' kernel for the serial stuff, did you share that somewhere? or will you ;)

eh, do you mean the serial-console-forwarded-to-usb kind? I did once think of making that kind of modification but did not really have very good success on it. What needs to be done is step up the USB initialization to *** early phase as possible.

As for "normal" serial console access, I usually enable that in all my kernels (and it can be also enabled from command line by inserting "console=ttyS0,115200n8" there...

nieldk

2014-06-28 19:35

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

@juiceme cool :) thanks buddy

hrbani

2014-07-30 16:46

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Hi :)

With special thanks for this big work;

1) my friend has trouble with NitDroid booting. MeeGo boots completely.

Ubiboot .log and .conf are attached.

Here is the screenshot from critical locations:

http://dl.mobilestan.net/index.php/i...0729011046.png

http://dl.mobilestan.net/index.php/i...0729011046.png

The left is /boot/
Center is /home/user/MyDocs/boot
Right is NitDroid folder.

2) May I want you tell me how I must install ubiboot 0.3.6 step by step, please? (I have ubiboot 0.3.5 installed)

Thanks a lot

peterleinchen

2014-07-30 21:51

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Did you read the logs yourself?

There are two obvious things:
first one is
Jul 30 09:59:46 (none) user.notice root: Could not mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /mnt/3
This is the /home partition where Nitdroid resides. Ubiboot cannot -for whatever reason- mount that partition, so it loads kernel successful and then dies out as in the preinit.nitdroid it is told to exec some stuff from p3.
But when booted Harmattan you can see all data on /home?

And another no-go is you have all kernels in the nitdroid section. Only kernel 2 and 3 are able to boot nitdroid. Which one do you select?

--
Oh, and the installation of ubiboot v0.3.6 is exactly the same as v0.3.5

hrbani

2014-07-31 13:49

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by peterleinchen (Post 1434348)

Did you read the logs yourself?
Thanks from your answer; Yes, but I couldn't understand.

There are two obvious things:
first one is
Jul 30 09:59:46 (none) user.notice root: Could not mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /mnt/
This is the /home partition where Nitdroid resides. Ubiboot cannot -for whatever reason- mount that partition, so it loads kernel successful and then dies out as in the preinit.nitdroid it is told to exec some stuff from p3.
Thanks, I learn it know.

But when booted Harmattan you can see all data on /home?
I must ask from my friend, I think he can see them, because of exist folders in screenshot.

And another no-go is you have all kernels in the nitdroid section. Only kernel 2 and 3 are able to boot nitdroid. Which one do you select?
.

He tried all of them, and none of them booted nitdroid :(

peterleinchen

2014-07-31 14:42

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Okay, just read logs again.
And it is really like the kernel gets loaded but then dies out. So it is not ubiboot boot sequence causing this mess.

i do not understand the p3 (/home) thing. If this is true, then you are out of luck to ever get Nitdroid running. Or you pack it on another partition and modify the /sbin/preinit_nitdroid script .....

... Ah maybe it is an easy and now remembered often made mistake:
Please check the exec rights of the file /sbin/preinit_nitdroid under booted Harmattan via ls -l /sbin/preinit_nitdroid (should be: rwxr-xr-x).
If it misses the exec bits, do chmod +x /sbin/preinit_nitdroid (under devel-su).

If that does not help you have to wait for juiceme (as he is much better in reading his logs ;)).
Or you may connect your powered off N9 via USB to a PC (flavour Linux), then you possibly might find out why p3 is not mounted...

FAN"9"user

2014-08-22 16:58

Complete step by step guide to triple boot Nokia N9

Hey buddies...Can anyone provide a complete step by step guide for installing (Android and Sailfish) on my Nokia N9 64Gb??

coderus

2014-08-22 17:24

Re: Complete step by step guide to triple boot Nokia N9

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=89345

master9997

2014-08-24 19:57

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

seems like ubiboot download links are not working ?

peterleinchen

2014-08-24 20:14

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by master9997 (Post 1436742)

seems like ubiboot download links are not working ?

???

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...38&postcount=1
http://www.swagman.org:8008/juice/ubiboot/

juiceme

2014-08-25 05:55

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

There are 2 urls to the ubiboot page:
http://www.swagman.org/juice/ubiboot/
http://www.swagman.org:8008/juice/ubiboot/

The swagman server has been heavily DOSed in the past, especially from some eastern IPs which is why our administrator has banned some IP address ranges totally for the normal web traffic.

He kindly has opened port 8008 for all the world at my request. The content on both URLs is identical.

master9997

2014-08-25 09:08

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Hey !

i tried to understand how to install uniboot, but i'm too afraid to mess something up.

I have clean harmattan openmode and my goal is to use kernel plus for harmattan.

i dont need any other kernel for harmattan and i dont want to use nitroid. (atleast not for now)..

i dont understand how should i change uniboot.conf so that harmattan is only choice..

when should i use 'depmod' command?

do i need openmode_l2fix for kernel-plus ?

I know this sounds lazy but can someone make me correct conf file and tell me where and which files should i copy ?

i have all necessary files i just don't understand where should i put those. (i know only where to put preinits )

Is here someone who can help me?

juiceme

2014-08-25 17:53

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by master9997 (Post 1436759)

Having Harmattan as the only active choice is easy; You just configure one OS entry (default being G_OS2_* for Harmattan)
For all other OS'es set G_OS<x>_NUM=0 where x={1,3,4,5,6}
When you do this, all the first level icon menus are present, but there is no second level menu under them.

If, on the other hand, you'd like to modify the menu so that other choises are not even presented, so that you only see the one and only Harmattan boot icon in the first level menu, then you have to recompile the menus.
It is not as difficult as it sounds, all you nee is a standard linux desktop machine where you can run the compile script.

After you have unpacked the modules for your kernel-plus, before you boot into the kernel, you need to go to the module directory and run command "/sbin/depmod -a 2.6.32.61-plus" for example, provided that 2.6.32.61-plus is the version you are installing of course :D

openmode_l2fix is a good backup choise to have in your kernel list, because it uses the default set of modules. If you make a mistake and cannot boot kernel-plus for modules misconfiguration or something, then it is good to have one entry there you can boot to.
(but of course if you know what you are doing you can always fix the boot problems in ubiboot repair mode...)

FAN"9"user

2014-08-28 16:04

Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1326138)

Now the first version of ubiboot N9 environment is ready for release :D

See the (low quality) video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxnqUgm3WM

The downloads and documentation can be found from http://www.swagman.org:8008/juice/ubiboot/

WHAT IS UBIBOOT N9

- Configurable boot environment that can be used to launch different OS'ses / kernels for N9
- Integrated repair/maintanance mode

With ubiboot you need not ever flash a kernel again, you can use similar procedures to maintain your kernels an on regular desktops, just copy kernel&mudules to device and edit boot list.

With ubiboot it is easy to change OS'es on the fly, you can boot your device to Harmattan/Nemo/Nitdroid without any extra equipment, and select what kernel you want to use with the OS.

Thanks (in alphabetical order) go to at least the following people;
Hurrian, Jonni, Peterleinchen, Sledges, Stskeeps and propably others :)

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

Note about Open Mode

To use Ubiboot, your device needs to be running in Open Mode. What this means, is that some of the Aegis security framework functionality is suppressed even as you cannot ever turn Aegis off completely in a Harmattan device. For this reason it matters greatly how you enter Open Mode.

This following note is relevant not for only ubiboot but also to all the cases where a device is being run in Open Mode, regardless of the kernel and boot mode to do so.

To correctly flash the device for Open Mode, you need to ensure that the Aegis keys and credentials on the device are created with Open Mode keys, not with the default Closed Mode keys.

The Aegis key generation happens the first time a device boots after a clean flash, before user is presented with the UI of the device. Hence, it is important to make sure that the device boots up in Open Mode the first time after flashing. The way to accomplish this is what I call back-to-back flashing.

Back-to-back flashing is performed by first flashing the device like in "normal closed mode flashing", both emmc and rootfs. Then, immediately flashing the device again, now with an Open Mode kernel, without letting the device to boot up between the two flashing rounds.

If you perform this correctly, the device will start up in Open Mode so that aegis keys are created correctly. This will help you avoid all odd problems caused by running device with incorrect credentials (password problems, strange hangups and boots, general slowing and lagging of device...)

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

Changed the link to point to non-filtered site URL

The administrator of swagman.org has opened an unfiltered port for access.

Hey Brothers I Am A Noob and I recently Purchased Nokia N9 64gb.
I Want Help In Booting Sailfish And Android On My Device....can Anybody Tell me?
@juiceme...brother what do You Mean By CleanCleanCleanClean Flash During Back To back Flashing In Open Mode...do i Need to Flash The Firmware Bin Or Emmc Bin File?
And For Multibooting Android And Sailfish Do i need To Partition Memory Before flashing?

juiceme

2014-08-28 16:28

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437261)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437261)

And For Multibooting Android And Sailfish Do i need To Partition Memory Before flashing?

Android needs no partitioning, it can run from your Harmattan partition. To boot sailfish you need to repartition, but it can be done (and actually should be done) after flashing ubiboot kernel.

FAN"9"user

2014-08-28 16:45

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1437274)

Flashing both FW and EMMC cleans the device pretty thoroughly.
To do back-to-back flashing, you need to do clean flash and then immediately flash the open mode kernel, so that the device does not boot between the flashings.

Android needs no partitioning, it can run from your Harmattan partition. To boot sailfish you need to repartition, but it can be done (and actually should be done)) after flashing ubiboot kernel.

Thank You Brother For Your Reply...can You Please Guide MeMe Step By Step...i Have Downloaded All Necessary Files...my N9 is Completely Cleaned Still Do I need To perform Clean Flash before flashing openmode kernel??

Sorry For being So Noob and Asking Such Questions

juiceme

2014-08-28 16:56

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437284)

I am fairly sure this has been discussed before, and might be mentioned on the wiki page too...?
The reason for the back-to-back flashing is to make the device create aegis keys with open mode. That will help with some problems you might have with Harmattan later. It is possible you will have no issues but some people have had those, hence the recommendation for back-to-back flashing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437284)

Sorry For being So Noob and Asking Such Questions

No reason to be, noobness is something that is easily cured :)

FAN"9"user

2014-08-30 12:07

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1437288)

well thankyou brother...
i tried back to back flashing...for open mode...but i cannot keep lock on my N9..also the facebook account keeps asking password whenever i boot up

please help

juiceme

2014-08-31 16:51

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437551)

well thankyou brother...
i tried back to back flashing...for open mode...but i cannot keep lock on my N9..also the facebook account keeps asking password whenever i boot up

please help

There is one known drawback of Open Mode on N9, and that is that device lock does not work on Open Mode. (however there is a correction to that problem: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=92465)

As for facebook account asking for password, this means that you probably did not do the back-to-back flashing quick enough; If the device does boot between the flashings, then you get to this state.
There are 2 solutions to this problem:

either you need to do back-to-back flashing again
or else you can try to delete the aegis keys from your home directory (but this may not rid you of all the problems)

coderus

2014-08-31 16:57

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

For most of cases removing accounts and .accounts folder is enough. newly created accounts will have new keys and save passwords.

FAN"9"user

2014-09-01 08:07

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1437737)

either you need to do back-to-back flashing again
or else you can try to delete the aegis keys from your home directory (but this may not rid you of all the problems)

I successfully installed NITDROID and Sailfish on my N9.thank you very much for guidance.

NOW
Another problem i am facing is i cannot use GPRS data on NITDROID(process.com.android.phone has stopped working) popup comes on Alpha 5 build and i cannot connect to cellular network

Similar problem is faced such as INSERT SIM on SAILFISH OS

I cannot connect to cellular network in both OS but i can in Meego

HElp needed please

juiceme

2014-09-01 08:42

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437845)

Another problem i am facing is i cannot use GPRS data on NITDROID(process.com.android.phone has stopped working) popup comes on Alpha 5 build and i cannot connect to cellular network

Well Nitdroid is like that I think. It is still experimental; not very complete and lacks some important functionality.
There exist some patches/tweaks I think that help with some problems.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1437845)

Similar problem is faced such as INSERT SIM on SAILFISH OS

I cannot connect to cellular network in both OS but i can in Meego

Hmm, it's a while since I booted into Sailfish/N9 but as far as I remember there was no SIM problems with my device.
On Nitdroid there is the requirement that you have to have the PIN number of your SIM card disabled, because Nitdroid has not got the unlocking part implemented, but on Sailfish that should work fine.

FAN"9"user

2014-09-01 11:11

Re: Help Please

Quote:

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1437855)

Well Nitdroid is like that I think. It is still experimental; not very complete and lacks some important functionality.
There exist some patches/tweaks I think that help with some problems.

Hmm, it's a while since I booted into Sailfish/N9 but as far as I remember there was no SIM problems with my device.
On Nitdroid there is the requirement that you have to have the PIN number of your SIM card disabled, because Nitdroid has not got the unlocking part implemented, but on Sailfish that should work fine.

I have disabled PIN on my sim still the problem exists

Your GPRS data used to work all fine on N9?

coderus

2014-09-01 11:26

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

on both nitdriod and sailfish you need to go to settings and enter your APN data MANUALLY.

juiceme

2014-09-01 11:34

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderus (Post 1437906)

on both nitdriod and sailfish you need to go to settings and enter your APN data MANUALLY.

On Nitdroid, yes, but was it also so on Sailfish? Could be, cannot remember.

coderus

2014-09-01 11:47

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

it required for both systems.

FAN"9"user

2014-09-01 11:57

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderus (Post 1437906)

on both nitdriod and sailfish you need to go to settings and enter your APN data MANUALLY.

I did manually configured the APN.
I resolved "process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly" by clearing cache of phone app from settings(found soution from google)..

but still when i try to call it says SIM ERROR or NETWORK ERROR

coderus

2014-09-01 16:47

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

so, it means sim error or network error. nitdroid working fine ;)

FAN"9"user

2014-09-02 15:43

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderus (Post 1437936)

so, it means sim error or network error. nitdroid working fine ;)

No....because i cannot access gprs data :(

master9997

2014-09-02 18:36

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

need quick answer. can i use

sudo flasher -a firmware.bin -k zImage_2.6.32.54-ubiboot-02-small_060114 --flash-only=kernel -f -R

instead of

sudo flasher -a firmware.bin -k zImage_2.6.32.54-ubiboot-02_301013 --flash-only=kernel -f -R

peterleinchen

2014-09-02 19:11

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Afaik yes.
Iirc this kernel (stripped out some modules) was built by juiceme for some HW variants which had problems when flashing such a big kernel.
You may use the 'search in thread' or wait for juiceme's confirmation.

juiceme

2014-09-02 19:46

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderus (Post 1437936)

so, it means sim error or network error.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAN"9"user (Post 1438053)

No....because i cannot access gprs data :(

That's what @coderus means; there's something hazy with your SIM/subscription perhaps.
Please try with another SIMcard.

FAN"9"user

2014-09-04 14:40

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1438069)

That's what @coderus means; there's something hazy with your SIM/subscription perhaps.
Please try with another SIMcard.

YUP..other card work well....Hate my Network Operator

pvt	2014-09-20 10:09

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Hello everyone,

Do I need to go through this huge threat to make my N9 multiboot (and start loading many different OS flavours) according to the latest and greatest available multiboot utility or is there a place when I can have latest instruction and download links?

Thanks in advance.

peterleinchen

2014-09-22 11:15

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

No.
Yes. There you find everything (with detailed instructions given by juiceme).

Another spoon feeded.

u7knv9h

2015-02-17 18:07

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

hello, nice work, i've used it for some time and i'm quite happy with it (maybe i'll be able to boot a linux distro in fb with fbvkbd with it, just for fun lol)
that said, i'm having issues removing entries from ubiboot
i don't understand exactly which files should i edit, for now i've figured out

animated_menu_top.map
ubiboot.conf (setting the new $G_UBIBOOT_ARCHIVE)

what else i'm missing?

juiceme

2015-02-17 20:37

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Quote:

Originally Posted by u7knv9h (Post 1461059)

that said, i'm having issues removing entries from ubiboot
i don't understand exactly which files should i edit, for now i've figured out

animated_menu_top.map
ubiboot.conf (setting the new $G_UBIBOOT_ARCHIVE)

what else i'm missing?

If you mean by "removing entries", that you want to have only the icons for some options in screen, like for example only Harmattan and Nitdroid, and remove everything else, then it is easy.

1.) download the source toolkit; "svn co https://toosa.swagman.org/svn/animatronics" or in case you cannot resolve IP address of toosa (as seems to happen sometimes) then do "svn co https://88.115.66.252/svn/animatronics" instead.
2.) edit the file "create_animations.sh" so that you replace the icon file definitions on rows 33...40 of the icons you do not need by "empty_200x200.png" (it is as name says, an empty icon, not showing on screen)
3.) edit the file "menuscripts/animated_menu_top.map" so that you comment out the wanted touch map (lines 19...26) by putting a #-mark in the beginning of the lines.
4.) compile the new archive by running the script "./create_animations.sh"
5.) pack the archive to cpio by command "./pack_cpio.sh --create animatronics.tar"

That's all you need to do really, no need to modify ubiboot.conf unless you want to add or remove kernels.

If you want to have more than one CPIO available in your device, you can rename your freshly created "ubiboot-02.menus.cpio" to something else, and then put that name in the definition line "G_UBIBOOT_ARCHIVE=" of your ubiboot.conf but that is not necessary really.

(BTW there is also the README file in the animatronics subdirectory, which tells you pretty much this same thing :))

hrbani

2015-03-08 16:26

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

1 Attachment(s)

Hi :)
There is my friend Ubiboot.log and Ubiboot.conf and screenshot from /boot/ and /home/user/MyDocs/boot/.
He couldn't boot Nitdroid, he says the phone goes off after selecting any kernel for nitdroid.
I think kernels and Ubiboot config and ... are true (from blow selection of log)

Code:

Mar 2 11:22:57 (none) user.notice root: Selecting Nitdroid OS, running kernel /boot/Nitdroid/boot/zImage.pr13 Mar 2 11:22:58 (none) user.notice root: Loading kernel /boot/Nitdroid/boot/zImage.pr13 Mar 2 11:22:58 (none) user.notice root: kexec_load() successful Mar 2 11:22:58 (none) user.notice root: Restarting to selected OS Mar 2 11:22:58 (none) user.notice root: Saving ubiboot log files Mar 2 11:29:08 (none) user.notice root: Selecting Nitdroid OS, running kernel /boot/Nitdroid/boot/zImage_e-yes_nitdroid+l2fix Mar 2 11:29:10 (none) user.notice root: Loading kernel /boot/Nitdroid/boot/zImage_e-yes_nitdroid+l2fix Mar 2 11:29:10 (none) user.notice root: kexec_load() successful Mar 2 11:29:10 (none) user.notice root: Restarting to selected OS Mar 2 11:29:10 (none) user.notice root: Saving ubiboot log files Mar 2 12:12:38 (none) user.notice root: Selecting Nitdroid OS, running kernel /boot/Nitdroid/boot/zImage_adb_usb Mar 2 12:12:39 (none) user.notice root: Cannot load Nitdroid kernel /boot/Nitdroid/boot/zImage_adb_usb Mar 2 12:12:39 (none) user.notice root: Boot OS/kernel selection failed Mar 2 12:12:39 (none) user.notice root: Saving ubiboot log files

But the problem is that the /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /mnt/3 Could not be mounted:

Code:

Mar 2 10:31:41 (none) user.notice root: Mounted /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/1 as VFAT Mar 2 10:31:41 (none) user.notice root: Mounted /dev/mmcblk0p2 on /mnt/2 as EXT4 Mar 2 10:31:41 (none) user.notice root: Could not mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /mnt/3

Am I true?

What is the solution? A complete flash with full wipe the memory?

Thanks a lot

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