Notices


Reply
Thread Tools
Posts: 463 | Thanked: 103 times | Joined on Jul 2010 @ Mumbai, India
#31
Originally Posted by mido.fayad View Post
yes , it's possible

i have 5 partitions and 5 giga for applicatios and i have NITDroid 0.0.9 on mmcblk0p4

and custom gingerbread on mmcblk0p5

and also NITDROID 0.0.8 on mmcblk1p2 but i will delete it


if u want the guide tell me and i will write the full guide to u

That awesome bro. Can you pm me the detailed guide on how you did it?
 
Posts: 9 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Oct 2010 @ south america
#32
Originally Posted by mido.fayad View Post
yes , it's possible

i have 5 partitions and 5 giga for applicatios and i have NITDroid 0.0.9 on mmcblk0p4

and custom gingerbread on mmcblk0p5

and also NITDROID 0.0.8 on mmcblk1p2 but i will delete it


if u want the guide tell me and i will write the full guide to u

thank you very much .... please post the guide for multiboot with these options thank you very much .... please post the guide for multi boot with these options 1 - for stock maemo kernel
2 - for kernel power 46
3 - for backupmenu
4 - NITDroid 0.0.9
5 - Gingerbread by mido.fayad

thanks
 
Posts: 309 | Thanked: 115 times | Joined on May 2010 @ Malaysia
#33
Originally Posted by Fabry View Post
Yes it is possible and the guide you have linked is OK (it is the same method proposed on other forums some time before).
The only limit which that guide not tells you is that on N900 you can create only max 3 logical partitions.

You can create 4 (or more) logical partitions as shown on that guide, but unfortunately the fourth logical partition is not seen by mmc driver and you must use a dm driver for all partitions with theirs number beyond 7

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67472
erm..my phone does seem to see the 7th and 8th partition..or perhaps you meant something else?

here's the screenshot of my partitions list..

 

The Following User Says Thank You to one1002 For This Useful Post:
Posts: 327 | Thanked: 383 times | Joined on Aug 2010 @ alex , egypt
#34
Originally Posted by one1002 View Post
erm..my phone does seem to see the 7th and 8th partition..or perhaps you meant something else?

here's the screenshot of my partitions list..


i want to ask u one question ?

why u make mmcblk0p4 as extended partition ? >>>

u can make it primary partition and it will work without any problem
 

The Following User Says Thank You to mido.fayad For This Useful Post:
Posts: 327 | Thanked: 383 times | Joined on Aug 2010 @ alex , egypt
#35
Originally Posted by apvito View Post
thank you very much .... please post the guide for multiboot with these options thank you very much .... please post the guide for multi boot with these options 1 - for stock maemo kernel
2 - for kernel power 46
3 - for backupmenu
4 - NITDroid 0.0.9
5 - Gingerbread by mido.fayad

thanks

ok i will write guide to u tomorrow

but i need ur partition table to give u the correct values
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to mido.fayad For This Useful Post:
Posts: 463 | Thanked: 103 times | Joined on Jul 2010 @ Mumbai, India
#36
Originally Posted by one1002 View Post
erm..my phone does seem to see the 7th and 8th partition..or perhaps you meant something else?

here's the screenshot of my partitions list..

Hey buddy what command are you using to show this list of all the partitions on the phone?
 
Posts: 327 | Thanked: 383 times | Joined on Aug 2010 @ alex , egypt
#37
Originally Posted by funkmunk View Post
Hey buddy what command are you using to show this list of all the partitions on the phone?
the command is

fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

but u need to have fdisk first ( u can find it in attachments )

copy it to /home/user/MyDocs

then write the following

root

cd /bin

tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/fdisk.tar

chmod 777 /bin/fdisk


then now u have fdisk and u can the first order to show ur table
Attached Files
File Type: tar fdisk.tar (88.5 KB, 135 views)
 

The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to mido.fayad For This Useful Post:
Posts: 362 | Thanked: 426 times | Joined on Nov 2010 @ Italy, Lombardia
#38
Originally Posted by one1002 View Post
erm..my phone does seem to see the 7th and 8th partition..or perhaps you meant something else?

here's the screenshot of my partitions list..

Partitioner software like sfdisk, fdisk or parted can see all partitions but when you will try to use them you will have a surprise.

Try a simple cat /proc/partitions command from xterm and you will see that system not see all partitions beyond mmcblk0p7

Last edited by Fabry; 2011-01-05 at 20:52.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to Fabry For This Useful Post:
Posts: 327 | Thanked: 383 times | Joined on Aug 2010 @ alex , egypt
#39
Originally Posted by Fabry View Post
Partitioner software like sfdisk, fdisk or parted can see all partitions but when you will try to use them you will have a surprise.

Try a simple cat /proc/partitions command from xterm and you will see that system not see all partitions beyond mmcblk0p7


yes , sfdisk is very bad

and with cat /proc/partitions >> u see only the size of the partition not everything about it but fdisk whih give u full details
 
Posts: 362 | Thanked: 426 times | Joined on Nov 2010 @ Italy, Lombardia
#40
Originally Posted by mido.fayad View Post
yes , sfdisk is very bad

and with cat /proc/partitions >> u see only the size of the partition not everything about it but fdisk whih give u full details
You can see by fdisk that i.e. you have 2GB for mmcblk0p8 and 1GB for mmcblk0p8.
But this information is not so usefull if then you will not able to mount these partitions because there not exist mmcblk0p8 and mmcblk0p9 on /dev

A mount -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p8 somewhereOnFileSystem will fail.
However you can use a dm0, dm1, ...etc devices if you have loaded a dm-mod kernel driver but I don't know if multiboot can boot from these devices

Last edited by Fabry; 2011-01-05 at 21:08.
 
Reply

Thread Tools

 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 14:25.