Thread: Ubuntu 12.04 on N900 with U-Boot
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MastaG is offline MastaG
2012-05-09 , 08:37
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Quick update.
I placed the meego rescue zImage and initrd into /boot and created a bootmenu.item for it in /etc/bootmenu.d/ (I can post this if anyones interested)
This allows me to repartition the whole eMMC over USB without having to install backupmenu (nasty).
So I shrunk the fat32 mydocs partition, moved everything else to the left and created a fouth logical parittion with two extended partitions, one for Ubuntu 12.04 ext4 (mmcblk0p5) and one for NITDroid ext4 (mmnblk0p6).

Then I got the Kubuntu 12.04 omap armhf image and mounted it and copied all files to my Ubuntu eMMC partition (mmcblk0p5).
Also placed unknown.obvious' uImage in the root and applied most fixed from the install.sh and installed the kernel and kubuntu-mobile-integrations debs using chroot.

From the maemo root I copied everything in /lib/firmware/* to my Ubuntu /lib/firmware

Here's my Ubuntu.item:
Code:
ITEM_NAME="Kubuntu 12.04"
ITEM_KERNEL="uImage"
ITEM_DEVICE="${INT_CARD}p5"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext4"
ITEM_CMDLINE="console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p5 rw panic=20 omapfb.vram=0:2M,1:2M,2:2M mtdoops.mtddev=2 rootwait"
ITEM_REUSEATAGS="1"
Ubuntu fstab:
Code:
/dev/mmcblk0p5  /               ext4    defaults                1 1
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid     0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3  swap            swap    defaults                0 0
tmpfs           /tmp            tmpfs   defaults                0 0
tmpfs           /run            tmpfs   defaults                0 0
tmpfs           /var/log        tmpfs   defaults                0 0
tmpfs           /var/tmp        tmpfs   defaults                0 0
tmpfs           /var/run        tmpfs   defaults                0 0
tmpfs           /var/lock       tmpfs   defaults                0 0
It works but I'm having some problems.

- Wireless doesn't work
I double checked the firmware files (copied from maemo) are in /lib/firmware but no connections show up

- The n900 keymap gets loaded but I cannot type numbers using the blue shift button

- It's a bit slow
No video hardware acceleration :P

I can post detailed instructions for installing kubuntu but I think it's best the installer.sh gets updated for this.


So far no crashes
 

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