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freemangordon	2012-05-05 , 11:26
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Originally Posted by pali

Now tested Nemo image, not working too :-( it show someting like systemd-fsck is in rescue mode and phone freeze...

I tested it few days ago, it is working(despite being slow as hell), there must be something wrong on your system.

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pali	2012-05-05 , 11:26
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Originally Posted by freemangordon

Pali, better use int_ua's installer, it works for sure

and what is this installer doing? sorry but why to create something which create system image? this sounds like windows installation process

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pali	2012-05-05 , 11:28
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Originally Posted by freemangordon

I tested it few days ago, it is working(despite being slow as hell), there must be something wrong on your system.

I unpacked files from this image
http://repository.maemo.org/meego/Ne...cblk0p.raw.bz2
to one SD card partition and created bootmenu item file
It is not enought?

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freemangordon	2012-05-05 , 11:32
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Originally Posted by pali

and what is this installer doing? sorry but why to create something which create system image? this sounds like windows installation process

It is installing some additional packages , Nemo kernel and stuff like that. I don't think Ubuntu(stock image) has been tested on n900 anytime soon, that is why it does not boot at all if image is just dd'ed to sd card.

Originally Posted by pali

I unpacked files from this image
http://repository.maemo.org/meego/Ne...cblk0p.raw.bz2
to one SD card partition and created bootmenu item file
It is not enought?

just boot it with run sdboot

EDIT:
copying files to a partition won't work, you have to use image and dd it to sdcard

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pali	2012-05-05 , 11:37
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Originally Posted by freemangordon

It is installing some additional packages , Nemo kernel and stuff like that. I don't think Ubuntu(stock image) has been tested on n900 anytime soon, that is why it does not boot at all if image is just dd'ed to sd card.

ah, ok. but I think that somebody could publish working image. it is really not good idea to have installer for arm devices...

Originally Posted by freemangordon

just boot it with run sdboot

EDIT:
copying files to a partition won't work, you have to use image and dd it to sdcard

what dd my sd card? no!
Needs nemo image fixed partition? Then it is bad too! I want to have reparitioned my SD card as I want. And I want to have more OS.
So I cannot test nemo image...

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ivyking	2012-05-06 , 19:39
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I was able to boot ubuntu 12.04 using unknown's kernel and the new u-boot, no errors upon start up, hopefully it stays that way.

attached is item file I used..

some notes:

ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p1"
ITEM_FSTYPE="vfat"

refer to where the uImage is stored rather than where the root device is.

ITEM_KERNEL="uImage"

refer to the uImage name on the first partition of the sdcard, no need to copy the uImage to /boot for regenerating the boot menu.

ITEM_USEATAG=1 is used instead of ITEM_REUSEATAG=1, the system won't boot using the later.(this happens even when booting maemo with kp if ITEM_REUSEATAG=1 is used in KP item file)

remove the .txt extension from the file, copy it to /etc/bootmenu.d/

then run u-boot-update-bootmenu

Attached Files

30-ubuntu-2.6.37.item.txt (259 Bytes, 141 views)

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PanzerSajt	2012-05-07 , 06:37
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Some improvements on armv7:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...04_armed&num=1

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MastaG	2012-05-07 , 07:59
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Originally Posted by ivyking

I was able to boot ubuntu 12.04 using unknown's kernel and the new u-boot, no errors upon start up, hopefully it stays that way.

attached is item file I used..

some notes:

ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p1"
ITEM_FSTYPE="vfat"

refer to where the uImage is stored rather than where the root device is.

ITEM_KERNEL="uImage"

refer to the uImage name on the first partition of the sdcard, no need to copy the uImage to /boot for regenerating the boot menu.

ITEM_USEATAG=1 is used instead of ITEM_REUSEATAG=1, the system won't boot using the later.(this happens even when booting maemo with kp if ITEM_REUSEATAG=1 is used in KP item file)

remove the .txt extension from the file, copy it to /etc/bootmenu.d/

then run u-boot-update-bootmenu

Thanks for reporting.
I'm about to give it a try here. (repartitioning the emmc atm)

So all thats left is for unknown obvious to recompile the kernel for armhf and we're set?

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	preflex	2012-05-08 , 00:29
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Originally Posted by ivyking

I was able to boot ubuntu 12.04 using unknown's kernel and the new u-boot, no errors upon start up, hopefully it stays that way.

attached is item file I used..

some notes:

ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p1"
ITEM_FSTYPE="vfat"

refer to where the uImage is stored rather than where the root device is.

ITEM_KERNEL="uImage"

refer to the uImage name on the first partition of the sdcard, no need to copy the uImage to /boot for regenerating the boot menu.

ITEM_USEATAG=1 is used instead of ITEM_REUSEATAG=1, the system won't boot using the later.(this happens even when booting maemo with kp if ITEM_REUSEATAG=1 is used in KP item file)

remove the .txt extension from the file, copy it to /etc/bootmenu.d/

then run u-boot-update-bootmenu

This worked great for me with kubuntu 11.10. Then I tried to install the powervr drivers but dkms failed and broke stuff.

it seems there are some files missing in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/ I believe dkms was complaining about memory.h.

According to what I read here: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums...ic.php?p=14532 it should be fixable by copying in the files from the unknown.obvious's source package in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.37-n900/arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/ to /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900/mach/

I'll let you guys know how that worked. It would be pretty groovy to get kwin with GLES working. Unfortunately, according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAP/Graphics , Ti doesn't compile the sgx drivers for armhf, so 12.04 may be a no-go in that department.

EDIT: Nope. still getting /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:18:25: fatal error: mach/memory.h: No such file or directory

also tried copying files to /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900/mach and /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900/arch/arm/mach

i think i need this stuff:
usr/src/linux-source-2.6.37-n900/arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/ the board-rx51.h looks promising.

Last edited by preflex; 2012-05-08 at 02:13. Reason: clarification

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	preflex	2012-05-08 , 04:46
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Ok, I added /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.37-n900/arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/ to headers in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900/plat/

Dkms still isn't making it, but getting closer.

Unfortunately, here i'm a bit stuck.

Code:

# cat build.log 
DKMS make.log for powervr-omap3-4.00.00.01 for kernel 2.6.37-n900 (armel)
Tue May  8 04:32:29 UTC 2012
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.37-n900/build M=`pwd` 
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900'
  LD      /var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.o
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:133:5: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:133:5: warning: (near initialization for ‘bc_cat_fops.unlocked_ioctl’) [enabled by default]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice1’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice2’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice3’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice4’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice5’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice6’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice7’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice8’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c: In function ‘OpenBCDevice9’:
/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.c:150:36: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
scripts/basic/fixdep: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti/bc_cat.o] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build/services4/3rdparty/bufferclass_ti] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/powervr-omap3/4.00.00.01/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.37-n900'
make: *** [all] Error 2