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Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Nope, I didn't have any such brackets .. After completing step 3, the output shows the old and new partition tables, i checked them and they look fine .. Now the first partition is just 1 MB long, which is of FAT32 FS, and then the second partition takes the rest of the space ..

EDIT: Here is the complete output from my N900 from the beginning (the first unmount command probably didn't work because I had already unmounted the microSD card in the previous xterm session):

Code:

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.



~ $ sudo gainroot

Root shell enabled





BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.



/home/user # umount /dev/mmcblk1p1 

umount: cannot umount /dev/mmcblk1p1: Invalid argument

/home/user # sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 << EOF

> ,1,C

> ,,L

> ,,

> ,,

> EOF

Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...

OK



Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 60352 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track

Old situation:

Warning: The partition table looks like it was made

  for C/H/S=*/64/63 (instead of 60352/4/16).

For this listing I'll assume that geometry.

Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0



   Device Boot Start   End    MiB    #blocks   Id  System

/dev/mmcblk1p1         0+  1884-  1885-   1929244+   6  FAT16

/dev/mmcblk1p2         0      -      0          0    0  Empty

/dev/mmcblk1p3         0      -      0          0    0  Empty

/dev/mmcblk1p4         0      -      0          0    0  Empty

New situation:

Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0



   Device Boot Start   End    MiB    #blocks   Id  System

/dev/mmcblk1p1         0+     0      1-      1023+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

/dev/mmcblk1p2         1   1885   1885    1930240   83  Linux

/dev/mmcblk1p3         0      -      0          0    0  Empty

/dev/mmcblk1p4         0      -      0          0    0  Empty

Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active)

This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk.

Successfully wrote the new partition table



Re-reading the partition table ...

BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy

The command to re-read the partition table failed

Reboot your system now, before using mkfs



If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)

to zero the first 512 bytes:  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1

(See fdisk(8).)

/home/user # umount /dev/mmcblk1p1

/home/user # mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk1p1

mkdosfs 3.0.1 (23 Nov 2008)

37

#####################################/home/user # mke2fs -j -m0 /dev/mmcblk1p2

mke2fs 1.41.3.maemo0 (12-Oct-2008)

Could not stat /dev/mmcblk1p2 --- No such file or directory



The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?

/home/user # mke2fs -j -m0 /dev/mmcblk1p2

mke2fs 1.41.3.maemo0 (12-Oct-2008)

Could not stat /dev/mmcblk1p2 --- No such file or directory



The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?

/home/user #

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Any idea with the above mystery people ?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Firstly a big thanks to everyone who has contributed to this so far!

I've followed the excellent instructions on the wiki and had NITDroid running in no time at all. Not sure however what I've done wrong but although I can boot into Android with no issues and save various settings settings (ie wifi password, market details etc.) I can't launch any applications (theY crash straight after launching) or download anything from the market - it just gets stuck on prepping to download.

Could this be a partitioning issue? I'm using a 2gb card at the mo with 1mb set to fat the rest to ext3...

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

if you read the above you see the error :

Code:

Re-reading the partition table ...

BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy

The command to re-read the partition table failed

Reboot your system now, before using mkfs

try rebooting and then doing

Code:

ls /dev/mmcblk1*

it should show both p1 and p2

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blobster2k (Post 753318)

just experiment with partition sizes. maybe try 512mb fat32 and rest ext3 then your absolutly certainly off 2gb limit

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_steve (Post 753329)

if you read the above you see the error :

Code:

Re-reading the partition table ...

BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy

The command to re-read the partition table failed

Reboot your system now, before using mkfs

try rebooting and then doing

Code:

ls /dev/mmcblk1*

it should show both p1 and p2

Okay, so after rebooting, do I repeat the entire partition procedure from step 1, or do I just continue from where I experienced the problem (from second command in step 5 and onwards) .. ?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

provided the ls command shows both mmcblk1p1 and mmcblk1p2 just continue with formatting then install

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

anyone who hasnt seen this yet : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POI8yiuWCo - preview of the next release

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

OK with DJ steve's massive help I have got this running. Doesn't want to allow me to add a wireless network though?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

hi all

I encountered an issue when I was booting Nitdroid:

Buffer I/O error at mmcblk0p2
Lost page write I/O error at mmcblk0p2

Nitdroid did not manage to boot and reset itself to multi boot menu. Anyone know what's the issue?