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	b-man	2009-02-17 , 03:54
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Originally Posted by Erni35

Hello list,

first of all, thanks for this work. I run in the same problem like alexey. I try to install ubuntu on the external card on a N810. Sometimes the installing breaks with a reboot sometimes with errors. But every time the boot process stops after displaying the message "pivot root and starting /sbin/init." And nothing happens.

I know the problem with the external and internal card for the fstab, but what should be in the fstab starting the boot process.
I have nothing on the internal card, external a fat on p1, ext3 on p2 and swap on p3.

Could you help me?

Thanks,
Erni35

You should have the following in /etc/fstab (assuming your external mmc is mmcblk1):

Code:

rootfs  /       rootfs  defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime   0	1
proc    /proc   proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/mtdblock4  /mnt/rootfs     jffs2 defaults  0       0
/dev/mmcblk1p3  swap  swap	defaults	0	0
/dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc1	vfat defaults	0	0

And also make shure you have the following in your bootmenu item;

Code:

ITEM_NAME="Ubuntu on mmcblk1p2"
ITEM_ID="Ubuntu on mmcblk1p2"
ITEM_DEVICE="mmcblk1p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,ro"
ITEM_LINUXRC="linuxrc"

I hope this helps

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Last edited by b-man; 2009-02-17 at 04:04.

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	b-man	2009-02-17 , 04:03
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Originally Posted by neatojones

Is there a place to report the bootmenu problem? As mentioned above (and possibly related to similar deblet problems), the partition must be changed to load this from mmcblk1pX to mmcblk0pX.

Other than that, 0.8 is a beautiful release. Keep it up.

I'd suggest reporting the bootmenu and partition problem to the mer section of bugzilla

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neatojones	2009-02-17 , 04:41
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Originally Posted by b-man

I'd suggest reporting the bootmenu and partition problem to the mer section of bugzilla

Will do, but it seemed like more of a bootmenu problem than a Mer problem, so I wasn't sure which was more appropriate here.

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	Stskeeps	2009-02-17 , 07:19
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Use ${EXT_CARD} and ${INT_CARD}, mmcblk references in bootmenu always causes problems :P

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Erni35	2009-02-17 , 07:45
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Hello b-man,

if I use your code for the ubuntu.item I just saw:

"Starting linuxrc from Ubuntu on mmcblk1p2 (mmcblk1p2 ext3)"

Using Code:

ITEM_NAME="Ubuntu on mmcblk0p2"
ITEM_ID="Ubuntu on mmcblk0p2"
ITEM_DEVICE="mmcblk0p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,ro"
ITEM_LINUXRC="linuxrc"

I saw the information coming from the linuxrc.

Erni35

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neatojones	2009-02-17 , 19:16
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I'm trying to run a few GPE applications to test them out as they seem like they might be nice additions (like GPE-mininet instead of the much larger nm-applet and NetworkManager) to Mer and Maemo (I know some have already been ported even). But my problem is that GPE doesn't seem to want to accept my root password. I know I'm typing it right, but it's not working. Does anyone have any ideas?

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	b-man	2009-02-17 , 22:05
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Originally Posted by Erni35

Hello b-man,

if I use your code for the ubuntu.item I just saw:

"Starting linuxrc from Ubuntu on mmcblk1p2 (mmcblk1p2 ext3)"

Using Code:

ITEM_NAME="Ubuntu on mmcblk0p2"
ITEM_ID="Ubuntu on mmcblk0p2"
ITEM_DEVICE="mmcblk0p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,ro"
ITEM_LINUXRC="linuxrc"

I saw the information coming from the linuxrc.

Erni35

hmm, did you run '/usr/sbin/refresh_bootmenu.d' after editing the item file?

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g0mib0y	2009-02-18 , 08:59
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ok this whole idea is really cool but is it possible to make an installer that does all the steps for you? I tried like 3 times but never got all the way.

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Erni35	2009-02-18 , 11:23
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after editing the ubuntu.item I always run '/usr/sbin/refresh_bootmenu.d' with the known result. How do you came to 4GB internal mmc? Is it changeable in the N800?

Greetings from saxony

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meizirkki	2009-02-18 , 16:50
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Originally Posted by g0mib0y

ok this whole idea is really cool but is it possible to make an installer that does all the steps for you? I tried like 3 times but never got all the way.

Maybe you can use Merinstaller? Just add b-mans tar.gz when it asks for download URL. Then use chroot to set passwords and users.

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