Thread: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)
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2013-11-01 , 02:49
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Well, ubiboot could find & load the kernels OK, that's clear from the log. Next step is the kexec() after which it is the 2nd stage kernel that is in charge of things, not ubiboot any longer.

Usually when the kernel loads OK but fails to boot there are 2 possible easy faults (and some more difficult)
The easy ones are, either something wrong with modules, or something wrong with init.

Assuming you have booted the same kernels before with earlier version of ubiboot, then the modules must be correct.

Can you check from your ubibot.conf that the preinit for harmattan is correct? It should propably be:
G_OS2_INITSCRIPT="\/sbin\/preinit_harmattan"
And check that you have /sbin/preinit_harmattan there and that it is executable.
(BTW, did you change your preinit or are you using the same as before?)
Hi,

First, thank you so much for this marvelous piece of software. It is not only functional, it is pretty and makes not only N9, but open source software in general look better.

I installed it 2 days ago following the instructions in the wiki page, but it didn't work reliably. The simptoms were similar to the ones TMavica is reporting, but sometimes (< 10%) the system booted. So I found the post quoted above, and checked:

Code:
# ls -l sbin/preinit*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10661 Set  7  2011 sbin/preinit
-rw-r--r-- 1 1010 1010 10661 Out  4 01:25 sbin/preinit_harmattan
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1010 5001  5752 Fev 28  2013 sbin/preinit_nitdroid
I never edited, chmoded or chowned these files, so this is how they were inside preinits.tar. The problem is not that the files belong to an inexistent user, but that preinit_harmattan is not executable. After fixing this, now I can boot successfully all the time.

Please fix preinits.tar!

Now I would like to edit the "info" menu option, can someone point me to a post/document/readme that show me the way?

Thank you so much again!

Edit: also, md5sum of preinit_harmattan is wrong in the wiki.
Last edited by traysh; 2013-11-01 at 02:58.
 

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