Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

When I try to boot android it stops at this in the blackscreen
getbootstate: Invalid selection:
choose bootup option:
2)MMC
9) Start a Shell


What do i type?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

Check your bootmenu settup... You can do it like this...

Open xterm:
sudo gainroot 'enter'
cd /etc/bootmenu.d 'enter'
leafpad android.etc.item 'enter'
(if you prefere to use another text editor just type that name instead of leafpad)...
Try it without the sudo gainroot first, don't think you need to be root to do this ;)
Mine looks like this:
ITEM_NAME="Android (external SD, partition 2)"
ITEM_ID="android3"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3 fat vfat"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,rw"

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

neither were found:(

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

oo maybe because it says my memory card is corrupted??

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

Try to do the autoinstaller again and see how that works out, it sounds like something went wrong in the doing of first installation?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

dOES AUTOINSTALLER DO THE BOOTMENU CONFIG FOR YOU?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

It should.
But some people's bootmenu item files have been getting corrupted somehow. Post number 382 has instructions on how to fix it if that happens.

This happened to me.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

It seems like the bootfile saved up anroid.item.ext instead .etc??? Should I just change the file name?? If so how do I do that in leafpad. I cant find bootmenu in file manage.. I tried just to save it as the different file name, and when I tried to boot there were 2 selection for android.??AAAA haah I know this is not that hard

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

Thanks for your help with this issue, Dousan....

My file was named 'android.ext.item' and my file looked like this:

ITEM_NAME="Android (MicroSD, partition 2)"
ITEM_ID="android3"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3 fat vfat"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,rw"[/QUOTE]

I changed first line to match yours, but after rebooting, I get error message:

get bootstate: mounting mmcblk0p2
on /mnt/new_root failed: No such device
command exited with non-zero status 255
real 0m 0.04s
user 0m 0.00s
sys 0m 0.00s

get bootstate: Invalid selection
choose bootup option:
2) mmc
9) start a shell


I do get the proper boot selection screen before this happens and select Android...

Any suggestions?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

I have two options to boot with android in bootmenu. For me it's the one that looks like this, that works for me ;)
(external SD, partition 2)
I'm not sure why you have those problems, but if you're not able to boot with non of your options in bootmenu and have to rename files i would reinstall with autoinstaller again and see if that would fix it for you :)

e: at the moment i can't boot nitdroid cause i flashed another zImage to get my radio working in maemo and that kernel somehow doesn't work on my device to boot nitdroid... ;)

@archimark i had that problem, i had a few before it finally worked for me. Before the autoinstaller i tried with vm linux mint and that didn't work so i partioned my sd card on my N900 and then used the vm linux mint to download and untar the froyo to my sd card and then settup the bootmenu and that worked. After the autoinstaller i've used that ;)
Try to look at this link, the partitioning didn't work for me with this method, but the rest did...
http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install
Somewhere in this thread kingoddball gives a guide on how to partition sd card on N900...
This is how i got it to work, trying different approaches, but i can't say speciffic whats wrong in your end. Sorry...