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#474
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st View Post
Let me put in just a couple of notes here:
1. While I appreciate people thinking about using Multiboot and working to make it compatible, Multiboot is somewhat depreciated, and shouldn't be used - It overwrites the kernel partition each time you switch your boot OS!
Remember that the kernel partition is on a raw flash device with -no- block-leveling; if one block goes bad, your whole N900 could die.
uBoot is the replacement, and it simply chainloads a new kernel off whatever partition you want, resulting in -no- extra writes to the kernel partition. It's a far better system and anyone thinking about dual-boot should be using it.
(Note that BootMenu should be compatible with uBoot, though building a BackupMenu module for uBoot(and a boot-menu) would be nice).

2. Manual BackupMenu install would require:
A. Extract "data.tar.gz" from the .deb file(as root). "tar pzvf ./data.tar.gz -C /" IIRC
B. Extract the contents of "data.tar.gz" to '/'. All paths should work out fine.
C. Run these two lines as root:
Code:
cp /opt/maemo/usr/bin/gnu/tar /usr/share/backupmenu/
chmod +x /usr/share/backupmenu/*
Everything should run after that.

thank you sir..however, not many people using uboot because of the not-so-user-friendly..getting kernel to load via uboot isn't as simple as multiboot where you create the boot item..

i guess it's because most of the users are booting maemo-nitdroid..as far as i read, there are still no uboot solutions for booting nitdroid..? correct me on this if i'm wrong..

that is why people opt for multiboot..uboot isn't integrated yet for booting multiple OSes right?AFAIK, meego has the compatibility using uboot..but not nitdroid,ubuntu or any other OSes..

sorry if i'm wrong..please enlighten me sir