I'd like to send that in Fraktur to the programmers of the bluetooth stack. Atrocious code that gets worse by every release.

While preparing a newly flashed n900 for the june-rootfs, I wish one could spare all the upgrading and updating just in order to get the U-Boot in place. A fiasco image just like the maemo ones, only with alarm inside would make a nice shortcut, wouldn't it?

I used this image on a newly ext4-formated uSD directly on the N900, and used the provided u-boot item file, but could not make it boot. The N900 resets at kernel loading. Anyone else tested this rootfs yet?

You don't need to use u-boot combined with alarm kernel flashed into NAND. All you need is latest u-boot *only* flashed there, *once* - then, you don't need any flashing/combining PITA, no matter how many new releases of kernel's you're using comes out. You need to flash *only* if new u-boot get's released.

After all, kernel sits in RAM anyway, so it's 0 difference in performance or anything, when you make u-boot to load kernel from image on /dev/mmcblk0p1 (Maemo naming used, but you know the idea) - as opposed to having kernel combined into u-boot image.

This approach makes using U-boot for such things as alarm a pleasure.

/Estel

I just tried it out and it works fine for me (at least boot/login). For me it seems that this is the kernel related problem. What is the last message that you can see? Do you use 3.5.7.5?

edit: I just tried wifi-menu and pacman -Syu, both are fine. Seems like the pain of upgrading the system is gone, thanks Skry - people are going to be grateful for that

Thanks for the info. I just mkfs'd the partition, extracted the rootfs, installed the provided item file and updated u-boot. No packages installed or anything, as I was willing to validade the procedure. I will investigate further.

update: fixed by upgrading u-boot to the version in extras-devel

It also works with older u-boot, as long as you use one from Pali's site, *not* from -devel. It's compiler related problem (one used to compile u-boot - the autobuilder's one is too old). New version of u-boot in -devel goes around it, by uploading binary (already compiled using newer compiler) file of u-boot image, skipping autobuilder's compilation.

I though it was mentioned in first page, first post?

/Estel

It is, indeed. I had this working; I must have upgraded u-boot by mistake.

hi Skry,
sorry for asking in this thread... i know that it's the wrong place then, feel free to ignore me and just don't answer me at all You already did so much !!!
I'm an Arch newbie and It's been a couple days since i've managed to boot it on my N900. Everything went ok except for the wifi. It's sooo slow even though with good signal and bandwidth. Doesn't matter whether i'm on the the browser (elinks) or syncing pacman database. Seems like it starts well but within a few secs it progressivelly becomes slower and slower until stops. Same thing using 2013.02 and 2013.06 rootfs. Dmesg doesn't show nothing wrong with the link. It's an open network and both my Arch netbook and MicroB are working very well on that. I don't have access to any other AP Have you seen something like this ?
Thank you very much for your efforts.
edit: found it! but hey who cares about battery when you haave a full native arch on your pocket ?!?! Thanks !

Hi, any suggestions on how to make keyboard work in chrooted from Maemo Qt apps?