Originally Posted by juiceme

When you ssh to the device in ubiboot as root, your home dir is /root/ of the ubiboot FS.
Before attempting this, you need to do the following things:

Unexport your USB partitions: (if this gives you error, then you have the partitions mounted on your PC and you have to umount them first, cannot really have a partition mounted to 2 different devices at the same time, can you? )

echo "" > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/gadget/lun0/file

Mount the drive you have your TAR file on, for example if it is on your My Docs then you need to do:

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/1

Then mount the target you want to extract your preinits to:

mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/2

Then, extract the archive:

tar -xvf /mnt/1/preinits.tar -C /mnt/2/

Last thing, sync and umount partitions:

sync ; umount /mnt/1 ; umount /mnt/2

Originally Posted by michaelmhk

I think this is time for asking how to partitioning the emmc other than nemo′s Alt_OS
Sorry I am lazy

Originally Posted by peterleinchen

Yes, that is really a mess!
Or nicely stacked, as juiceme would say.

You somehow managed to shift roots and home from p2/3 to p3/4.
Your approach above editing ubiboot.conf may work (for sure this is the reason why kernels are not found), as it searches on harmattan rootfs (i.e. /dev/mmcblk0p2) boot folder. But due to your partition layout they reside on /dev/mmcblk0p4.

I suggest you do a reflash --no-preserve and start all over.
But before you should try editing ubiboot.conf as stated above.
And you will end up with a system having the home partition not mounted (would need editing at least /etc/fstab). Juiceme may tell more here.

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did you ever try to flash standard open mode kernel and see how the N9 behaves?

Originally Posted by peterleinchen

@garp
juice explained (again) correct and better than me

@taixzo
what about output of
ls -l /boot (when in harmattan, so /dev/mmcblk0p2/boot()?
Could it be you copied the kernel only to MyDocs/boot and not to /boot? (Of course the listed kernels in MyDocs/boot are only the ubi kernel which needs to be flashed to device)
output of
ls -l /boot
and ubiboot.conf

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reread and possibly you have old configuration on mtd4/5?
if so, you need to decide to use either of mtd4/5 or MyDocs. Order is mtd4, mtd5, MyDocs
your log files will reside on /var/log/ubiboot*

Originally Posted by juiceme

The kernels (zImage*) you should put on the /boot/ folder on your Harmattan root.
The log files, ubiboot.log & ubiboot.dmesg will be created after you run ubiboot at least once, in your p1 /boot/ directory which is /home/user/MyDocs/boot in Harmattan.
If you do not have the log files, then check your ubiboot.conf, as there are keys G_LOGFILE_PARTITION="1" and G_LOGFILE_DIRECTORY="/boot" which determine where the log files go.

Ah, one thing to remember! If you are using an older ubiboot version, then the log files go to /var/log/ of your Harmattan installation, and the location is not configurable!