Thread: Meego and Maemo dual boot on N900
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2010-06-16 , 22:19
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Originally Posted by CooL_HunK View Post
hey king dude, thnx but the procedure for android is very complicated to me, as I have only windows to work with... n a few other discouraging knowledge factors... so I just wanted to have a simple step by step guide, that can help any noob in programming and linux related stuff. so may be u can help me out...

n one more thing can u tell me that do I really needto have a SD card, n after installing meego on the SD card will the maemo boot along with meego...?????? plzzzzz help me out
It's actually pretty easy. You will NEED a Linux system.
If you're computer is alright (specs) then download a VM tool (WMware, Qemu or others) and just download a copy of linux.

Also - Forget about meego. Unnecessary.

What's needed:

Linux (Can't do much without it)
N900 + USB
SD Card (1GB would be a good minimum)
Flasher-3.5 (software - free via nokia)
PR 1.2 firmware (or if you didn't upgrade 1.1.1).


(It actually even seems possible to do it ON the N900... But I have not tested and don't want to format my SD card.)

I'm headed to work now, but if I have time, then I'll write up a nice tutorial. I was in the same boat was you on saturday just gone. I had NO clue.



Originally Posted by MohammadAG View Post
It's really not that hard to do, and Jebba's already done it, several months ago, http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Fedora

I got Ubuntu 9.10 working (huge thanks to b-man for pointing me in the right direction ), the touch screen still doesn't work though.

Hi!
I'm still having trouble with it. I'm not sure how. It CAN NOT be as hard as it is for me.
On my N900 the scripts just WOULD NOT RUN, so I've done it all via my linux system. I broke the script down into pieces and done it that way.
I also had b-man's help. I have all fedora files (plus needed libs from n900) and I head over to n900 too boot and it just sits and then later it pops up with a "2 for mmc" "9 for something" boot modes. I'm sure they're not fedora messages. It just won't boot.
I'm not using the right kernel that Jabba supplied and i think that's what is killing me. I'm using a kernel with a frame buffer (Android dual boot kernel).
Last edited by kingoddball; 2010-06-16 at 22:29.