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Fedora 12 on Nokia N900
I have Fedora 12 up and running on my Nokia N900.
It's only in console mode at the moment, but it boots up. :) I will write up a mini HOWTO and put it here: http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Fedora |
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Please get Android working next or Ubuntu! Anyway, keep cranking out the good work.
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Cool - thanks for the walkthrough. :)
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Thanks for this!
"Easy Debian" will also work quite well for the chroot portion of setting up a Fedora rootfs... Have they fixed the bug in Yum that makes it fail on ARM processors? I tried previous Fedora versions, but they had ported so few apps to their repos that I gave up... |
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Of course, you can't recharge the battery and the keymap is pretty broken in the console (just letters, more or less), but this is also true of Mer. |
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i noticed on your guide for mer..that you are using ext3 partition scheme..isnt it advisable for solid media to use ext2 and journalising the data is not needed on mmc as read times are really fast in bursts..ext3 will slow down the performance?
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Hope you can still receive phone calls...
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Excellent work :)
btw i'll be starting a new ubuntu project for the N900 once i get my device, which should happen hopefully within the next week and a half ;) |
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Would you mind updating your wiki for the new FW and kernels?
I tried this this evening but came unstuck. |
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I'll make a kernel-framebuffer package and maintain it in the repos soon, should be useful for everyone who wants to boot another OS (which kicks into a console with no X), as well as debugging purposes on maemo (well, not full debugging, but if the device fails to boot you should know why) :)
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I managed to get everything installed ok. And I can chroot in, but I cannot get it to boot from the SD card.
My I have an entry called fedora.ext.item in the bootmenu.d folder that looks like this. Code:
ITEM_NAME="Fedora 12 (external SD, partition 4)" My memory card is a 4 gig, partitioned as such. p1 100Mb Vfat p2 512Mb swap p3 1000Mb ext3 p4 rest of space for fedora I see somewhere that you should run a refresh_bootmenu.d after adding items in bootmenu.d directory, but I it doesn't do anything as I dont have this file to run....so I'm thinking this may be outdated. All I have done so far is copy over the rootfs, modules and firmware...I just cant get past the booting. Any ideas? |
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http://mohammadag.xceleo.org/public/...s/framebuffer/ for kernels.
When dual booting the nodes are swapped, mmcblk1 is the internal eMMC, you should use mmcblk0p4. |
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Bow to the master, thanks man!
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I've been using your kernel, but couldnt get the dualboot going. Changing to mmcblk0p4 worked a treat.
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I cant seem to get x up and running. Do I need to have XFCE installed? Or can I just start up the basic X terminal?
Also, I am running this on a 1Gb memory card as my 4gb is giving I/O errors. So basically I have it installed on 1 partition with no swap partition. Here is my X log, sorry for the long post. Code:
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 |
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Ok, I have it all up and running :) X works beautifully, I can't believe how well it actually runs.
Thanks Mohammad, your kernel works perfectly! |
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Ok I've got Fedora 12 to work with multiboot and it's indeed alot faster than I expected.
I've installed the kernel packages from MohammedAG at: http://mohammadag.xceleo.org/public/...s/framebuffer/ And I'm using his: http://mohammadag.xceleo.org/public/...e-fb-omap1.bin as /boot/multiboot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-framebuffer1 :) However I've got a few problems. First of all the sound doesn't work, there is no documentation on that. Second problem is that the mac-address changes on each boot, deleting the 70-persistant-net-rules is not really an option since my dhcp server will still assign a different ip-address. I would like to make the mac address to stay the same. And the last problem is that I can't find the n900-support script for the battery. Quote:
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How do you do the CHroot part? I am having the same trouble with Fedora and Ubuntu. I can not get past the chroot (/bin/bash sections).
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Masta, I never did get around the MAC address changing at each boot, but I just installed Network Manager so that I ddnt have to run a script to get the Wlan up and running.
King, you need to mount the partition fist, the chroot into it. Like so: Code:
mount /dev/mmcblk1px /media/mmcx |
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for some reason multiboot seems unstable...
I cant get it to boot anymore for some reason :( I've installed everything in this order: Code:
kernel-framebuffer_2.6.28-20101501+0m5-framebuffer1_armel.deb And there two items in /etc/multiboot.d: Fedora-2.6.28.item Code:
ITEM_NAME="Fedora 12" Maemo-2.6.28-omap1.item Code:
ITEM_NAME="Maemo 2.6.28-omap1" I've tried to issue the flasher commands: Code:
flasher-3.5 --set-rd-flags=no-ext-wd When I try to boot Fedora 12 it gets stuck or reboot. |
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I did this. Reflash the phone with pr1.2 to start anew.
Use maemo flasher to flash the framebuffer kernel. don't install any modules, it works fine without. in other word, use the framebuffer kernel for maemo and fedora. install fedora. install multiboot. create fedora.item check that you can boot both. when you boot normal maemo it should boot the framebuffer kernel. install maemo power, but dont flash the kernel, just install the kernels and modules. create an item file to point to this kernel. make sure the power kernel image and framebuffer image is in /boot/multiboot and that the names match to those is the item files. check that you can boot all 3 install NITDroid |
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Anybody tried Fedora 13: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedo...-06-29.tar.bz2
In http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archit...rdFP_Bootstrap they write, that thumb2 is disabled by default. So any application should be useable in easy chroot? |
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