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juiceme	2014-02-17 , 09:31
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Originally Posted by asterismo

I always had 3 partitions and i always thaught there were 3 partitions, one for each OS (Meego and sailfish) and the Meego's Nokia N9 partition.

When you have just Harmattan (like original, freshly flahed system), your partition layout is like this:
mmcblk0p1 - MyDocs (fat)
mmcblk0p2 - root (ext4)
mmcblk0p3 - home (ext4)

When you install Sailfish, you need to have partition layout like this:
mmcblk0p1 - MyDocs (fat)
mmcblk0p4 - ALT_OS (ext4)
mmcblk0p2 - root (ext4)
mmcblk0p3 - home (ext4)

(note that physically your mmcblk0p4 is "in the wrong place" as it is carved out from your mmcblk0p1 but logically it does not matter...)

Now, the whole business in the guide about the MOSLO boot and partitioning is to create the ALT_OS partition, mmcblk0p4.
If you do not have that, you have not followed through the guide correctly, and most possibly have now messed up your device completely.

Originally Posted by asterismo

I followed this how to and i think maybe the 4rth partition was not created.

Yes, then you need to start fresh, first by flashing your device to clean Harmattan.

Originally Posted by asterismo

Now i reflashed the Harmattan stock flash and lost the bootloader and cannot boot sailfish anymore. I was ale to use flasher to launch the moslo kernel and initrd but when it tries to load the 3 partitions and poup up as mass storage, it fails and prompt to the telnet green screen.

So what exactly happened, do you get any partitions to show on your linux computer?
What exactly does the green text say?

One very common cause of MOSLO partitioning failure is that you do not have enough free space on your mmcblk0p1.
For best results, backup all your data you have on MyDocs, and then empty it before partitioning.

Originally Posted by asterismo

I would like to have a sailfish with a working mp3 player and wifi tethering or if this is not working yet, go back to meego, if it's possible, repartitiones for saving space. I used this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ugb4vosobg
Tell me, is this a correct guide?

I don't know about that, I think video guides are not good way to do things.
The correct guide should be this: http://wiki.maemo.org/Ubiboot

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