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-   -   Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!! (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=19639)

penguinbait 2008-10-10 20:45
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by burnte (Post 232365)
I'm hoping that with 53 pages, I'm not cluttering things up here. :)

So, before, things ran fine. But with the latest version of the bootmenu stuff after the recent SSU, at the boot menu I always have the removable card listed as N/A, like it's not there and I can't boot from it. "Unable to boot from immc" so it defaults to the internal flash. Ideas of what to troubleshoot?
Odd!

Well, have you tried installing it again? Sometimes it appears to work, but you need to run it again.

If you have tried installing it a few times and it still does not work, I am not sure.

However, if the card is listed as N/A, its not detecting the card. Make sure it is seated properly

burnte 2008-10-11 03:15
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
I've run it probably a dozen times. It doubt it's seated poorly because the unit can write to it just fine in the OS, but at boot time it doesn't detect it. Could it be the stall script is improperly configuring the device name so taht at boot it's looking for the wrong device? This is an N810, and I'm trying to boot from the external, not internal...

penguinbait 2008-10-11 04:31
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by burnte (Post 232618)
I've run it probably a dozen times. It doubt it's seated poorly because the unit can write to it just fine in the OS, but at boot time it doesn't detect it. Could it be the stall script is improperly configuring the device name so taht at boot it's looking for the wrong device? This is an N810, and I'm trying to boot from the external, not internal...
you are installing the install-tools-N810e.deb?

Your virtual memory is turned off right?

burnte 2008-10-12 03:10
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
No, I was using the bootmenu one, but I removed that, installed that one, and turned off VM. I forgot I had vm on. Twice, and now it kind works. The failure I have it is starts to boot from the card, then reboots. :)

So, now I just have to debug the partition on the SD card, that's improvement.

penguinbait 2008-10-12 15:46
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by burnte (Post 232860)
No, I was using the bootmenu one, but I removed that, installed that one, and turned off VM. I forgot I had vm on. Twice, and now it kind works. The failure I have it is starts to boot from the card, then reboots. :)

So, now I just have to debug the partition on the SD card, that's improvement.
Yes, bootmenu-installer ONLY installs bootmenu. install-tools clones to SD.

If it finishe and it wont boot, it sounds like something went wrong, I would try to reinstall again.

It normally takes two installs to work at all. The first one repartitions the SD to the new layout, then it needs to be reinstalled to redo it now that its booted with the new partition layout.

If you are re-installing a card that has already been partitioned by my deb, it should work the first time. Its only when the partition layouts change you need to install the second time.

I have thought about making two separate debs, but this works and I am lazy :D

Wzrd 2008-10-12 19:21
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
I just wanted to say thank you to Penguinbait. I was having trouble before with my regular OS after cloning. So I reformatted my flash, reinstalled both SSU updates, installed my programs and then I used your deb to clone to SD and it worked perfectly! (after having to run it the 2 times).

Thanks!

Eladon 2008-10-20 04:48
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
Ok, I have an N810. I formatted the internal card, reflashed the device so it was totally clean, installed this app (twice) and it said successfully installed.

I have two questions. First of all, how can I get rid of the "Hello" audio message on startup. Sorry if this is already been asked, I searched the 54 page thread but didn't get any hits.

Second question, the app is successfully installed, but how can I tell if it actually did any good? The reason I say this, is because I went to install the apps I wanted, and ran out of space on my root fs! What's up with that? Have I misunderstood the purpose of this application? Isn't the point of it to let you have more room to install programs? Looks like the root filesystem still only has 256 MB!

Eladon 2008-10-20 05:05
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
One more question. Does anyone know where I can download the bin for DIABLO_4.2008.36-5 ? I'm just going to start again from scratch, sucks to have to redownload it again through the update wizard.

> Ended up picking it out of my temporary Internet files once the update wizard was done downloading... :-/

Eladon 2008-10-20 07:22
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
OK, I realize now that I simply wasn't getting the bootmenu. After starting again from scratch, even though I did exactly the same thing, strangely this time I only had to install the install-tools once, and now I'm getting the bootmenu. Once you have the bootmenu, it's fairly straightforward what you're doing, but it might not hurt to put in the instructions a hint as to what you are looking for after you have installed, so others who aren't already familiar with bootmenu (like myself) don't spend a bunch of time (like I did) assuming the install was successful, when it wasn't.

So now everything seems good. The only problem is when I boot to the internal card, and do an "apt-get update" I get:

Code:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up install-tools (1.0.0-5) ...
tar: short read
dpkg: error processing install-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 install-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The issue appears cosmetic, otherwise it seems like the clone worked OK. Awaiting further advice...

penguinbait 2008-10-20 11:00
Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 
Once its working you can uninstall install-tools to get rid of the apt-get errors. You can un-install it from both flash and sd partitions


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