Palis uboot is installed none of my menu entries work. I used his tarball examples, nothing boots. Typing boot will boot ubuntu or sdboot. I cant access maemo. Nitdroid is also installed on emmc. Please help with this, at least menu entry for maemo. Thank you all

I think you should ask on #maemo channel:
webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#maemo
I'm also there at the moment.

Hey guys, I've been trying to crack this nut for a while but whatever I do I don't seem to be able to get Ubuntu running on my N900. Is someone else out there kind enough to help me?

This is what I do and the errors I get.

I'm using the install.sh script and my memory card is connected through card reader. The script runs until after my memory card gets partitioned/formatted, after which I get this error:

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

tune2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
/dev/sdf3: 11/212992 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 31234/851508 blocks

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
install.sh: line 341: /mnt/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 343: /mnt/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 345: /mnt/etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 346: /mnt/etc/hosts: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 347: /mnt/etc/environment: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/etc/init/tty6.conf: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 353: /mnt/etc/rc.local: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 360: /mnt/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
install.sh: line 362: /mnt/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules: No such file or directory
mount: mount point /mnt/proc does not exist
mount: mount point /mnt/dev does not exist
mount: mount point /mnt/dev/pts does not exist
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/usr/bin/': No such file or directory

Any idea what is going on?

Cheers!

Same here gildor, but yet no one suggested any solution

Remove ubuntu-core*.tar.gz and try once again

Hi Guys,

I ordered from Ebay a 2nd hand N900 because I wanted to dual boot it with Ubuntu 12.04 on SDCard.

These are the steps that I did to try to do this sorcery.

1.) Partition my SDCard (32 Gig) Class 4 (P1 = FAT32, P2 = Swap, P3 = EXT3)


2.) Run the below command:

sudo apt-get install bzr
bzr branch lp:ubuntu-n900
cd ubuntu-n900

3.) Downloaded and extracted Custom Firmware from http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=253

4.) Mounted my SDCard P3 (EXT3) on my Computer: (/dev/sdb3)

5.) Run sudo bash install.sh

6.) Only modified the defaults by selecting (LXDE and XORG)

7.) Waited for more than an hour for the Script to finish.

8.) Installed Pali's UBOOT on my N900 while waiting for Step 7

9.) After the script finished on 7, asked for username and password: I put my name : s3an and password: abcde

10.) Unmount my SDCard from Computer

11.) Inserted on my N900

12.) Reboot and the Uboot Menu appeared, selected External SD Card and Hit Enter

13.) And Ubuntu didnt Boot. I got the last log below :



I really wanted this to happen, hope someone can provide me working steps or could give me hint to solve the issue that i encountered. Thanks

Using the SDCard from my previous post, I re-inserted it to my computer and run sudo bash install.sh once again.

This time i selected, ubuntu-desktop and xorg and the rest are default.

I manage to reach a Screen where i can see the Mouse Pointer, alternately blinking screen (Mouse pointer, Ubuntu Background Color , and the Booting logs)

At this point, I'll stop and wait for someone who could figure out what was wrong with the steps that i followed.

Check post http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=296 for some info on what has worked for me.

I am trying to fix my N900, so at the moment I can not test anything, but I can try to help in other ways.

Finally managed to make it work:

after install.sh finished, I run the below commands:

1.) apt-get install console-tools *** this is to fix loadkeys not found ***
2.) apt-get install net-tools *** to fix ifconfig not found ****

3.) apt-get install lxdm

reboot, and it worked.

As you may have noticed I stopped working with Ubuntu and switched to Arch for N900. The main reasons are:
0. Chroot from Maemo works on Arch.
1. Active work of others with Arch.
2. Lack of interest from Ubuntu/Linaro people.
I'm going to try 13.04 but not sure about the future versions.
I encourage everyone to try Arch too, here is the thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81892