BootMenu 1.13 for Nokia N900
Update 20.12.2014:
New version 1.13 is in Maemo Extras-Devel. Update 12.06.2012: Version 1.12 is in Maemo Extras. Update 02.06.2012: Fanoush BootMenu 1.12 for Nokia N900 is in Maemo Extras-Devel & Extras-Testing. Info: This package installs everything necessary to show Boot Menu if keyboard is open at boot time. It also support recorvery USB mode. So can be used to backup data if Maemo or eMMC is corrupted. Menu entries may be configured by dropping files to /etc/bootmenu.d/ directory. This is intended to use to boot alternative operating systems. Packages like Recovery Console Mode or BackupMenu or my modified M32GB scripts needs this BootMenu for booting. Installation: Version 1.12 can be installed from Extras repository or from Maemo download page: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/bootmenu/ Features: * BootMenu item configuation files * USB mass storage * USB network with SSH, dhcp server, mDNS (via avahi-deamon) Example of item file: Code:
ITEM_NAME="Maemo 5 (Internal eMMC, partition 2)" Code:
bootmenu (1.13) unstable; urgency=low http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72737 |
Re: [Announce] BootMenu for N900 in extras-testing
thanks you my friends
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Re: [Announce] BootMenu for N900 in extras-testing
Is there any explanation or wiki page about differences between multiboot/uboot/bootmenu?
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Re: [Announce] BootMenu for N900 in extras-testing
Thanks a lot . q: is there a possibility to run nitdroid , maemo and meego together?
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Re: [Announce] BootMenu for N900 in extras-testing
Bootmenu does not support kexec. So yes if all your systems use same kernel.
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Re: [Announce] BootMenu for N900 in extras-testing
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U-Boot is completely different - UBoot is a universal bootloader, very widespread in use - wheras Bootmenu and Multiboot are Maemo-only as far as I know. U-Boot has more technical flexibility but it's less newb-friendly (well, more like Multiboot/bootmenu were documented better for the newbs first) than multiboot and bootmenu. Also currently Multiboot and Bootmenu have to reflash the kernel every time you change OSs, which is flash chip wearing in the long term. UBoot can actually load kernels from ANYWHERE without flashing. (Realistically, your flash chip will survive hundreds of thousands of kernel reflashes, so it's not a major concern.) But yeah, there's that. Then there's kexek, which is one kernel loading another. It's available in the repository too but there's a lot of work between one-kernel-loads-second-kernel and end-user multi-booting. Pali was working on kexek earlier from withing his recovery console item for bootmenu (speaking of, Pali, could it be that kexek wouldn't work from within your recovery shell because bootmenu runs stuff chrooted [based on what I read]? Or did I already ask this and get your answer in that thread? I may have just forgotten due to excess stupidity). And yes you can triple boot Maemo, MeeGo, and Android. No I'm not saying how because it has been asked before and I've typed out long-worded explanations of how before. Basically, learn how both uboot and multiboot work, which will tell you that the two are c semi-compatible, and then use your understanding to combine the two correctly. |
Re: [Announce] BootMenu for N900 in extras-testing
My Recovery Console is like another operating system which can bootmenu load (it is only shell script). It needs kernel with framebuffer support (kernel-power). I think it is now finished and I will push it to extras-devel.
Thread here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72726 Kexec is prorgram which can load and execute new linux kernel if another is running. But I was not able to get it working :-( In PR 1.3 stock kernel (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3745) is written that has for it support, but stock and kernel-power give me only black screen after executing kexec... Some info is here: http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/mee...ay/002277.html ... But kexec has own thred: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70083 We can move here. |
Re: [Announce] BootMenu 1.10.1 for N900 is in Extras
And now BootMenu 1.10.1 is in Extras :-)
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Re: [Announce] BootMenu 1.10.1 for N900 is in Extras
Hello, after reading several post i cant understand is it possible to run nitdroid with bootmenu or not.Because pali says
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Re: [Announce] BootMenu 1.10.1 for N900 is in Extras
Install U-Boot for kernel dual booting.
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