trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

hello, iread everything i can and followed the tutorials to partition the internal card on the N810 and install KDE, unfortunately I was not able to get to the point of installing KDE, i followed the {http://www.thisweekinnuclear.com/KDEonN800.html}
guide with the help of PinCushionQueen, but even after trying to configure the bootmenu.conf file I still cannot run this command
./initfs_flash. In the website I am having trouble with part 8, 9, and 10 when i restart my tablet the bootmenu appears and i choose mmc2 but it fails , however when i take the external card out, like we all know it works.

How can I fix this bug, what am I doing wrong?

please help i want to see KDE!!!

thanks

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

p.s i did read bunches but i could not conclude anything that worked ( newbieness)

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

From what you described, you have NOT been able to clone OS.

Follow this thread, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...+clone&page=30, thread #1 and #292, a step by step instruction. Once succeeded, we then work to get you install KDE, even KDEv2. How about that?

Here, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...t=15491&page=7, thread #66, step by step installation of KDEv2.

How are we doing?


bun

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

at least as downloaded today 16feb2008 fanoush's initfs_flasher does not work on my n810 running 2008-50-2 so it is not possible to clone os to card so even reading the directions on http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...+clone&page=30, thread #1 and #292 wont help

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

More details?


bun

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

i downloaded initfs_flasher and expanded it cd to initfs_flasher > then when you try to run initfs_flash > nada >>>./ initfs_flash: not found

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

Thanks,

bun

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

Provide even more details :-)
Copy and paste what you did exactly and what was the output.

Also try to redownload initfs flasher .tgz archive.

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

That's exactly the same error that Bonaojn was having.

FWIW, I did have her use the Millhouse scripts (nupgrade.sh) and the clone all seemed to go well (as evidenced by able to boot if external SD card is removed). This flasher error came after copying over a bootmenu.conf file to fix the N810 MMC naming bug and then needing to rerun the initfs_flasher.

So @ Bonaojn - so sorry that you're still having troubles but hopefully it was just something wrong with the flasher download.

I would suggest trying the following again from Pronuke's instructions (although I've made a addition shown in red):

Download the flasher application from here and save to "Documents"

http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.tgz
Install the flasher application to create a boot menu

# cd /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/
# tar zxvf initfs_flasher.tgz (check location of Tar first)
# cp path/to/your/bootmenu.conf /home/user/initfs_flasher/
# cd initfs_flasher/
# ./initfs_flash

Where the path to the bootmenu.conf would be something like "/media/mmc1/bootmenu.conf " if you just put it in the root directory of your external SD card. The internal SD card is /media/mmc2/

Hope this gets ya going :D

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

I ran into a similar problem when I tried to flash my N810; when I examined the downloaded initfz_flasher archive I noticed that the file size was off.
I then tried to download the file with wget and when I had done that it worked.

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

guys, thanks so much

i am going to try your steps today

hopefully better luck,
will let you guys now

bbl

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

it will not allow me to execute the command in red, i have it placed in my external card:
cp /media/mmc1/bootmenu.conf /home/user/initfs_flasher/

and it says
cp:cannot stat 'cp /media/mmc1/bootmenu.conf': No Such File or Directory

what to do?

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

How did you make the bootmenu.conf file? Maybe I should just email you a copy. You need to make sure that the app you used to create the file didn't add anything to the file name like .txt or .doc

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

if you want, but it is specifically called bootmenu.conf
however i did make it by opening Notes pasting your code and saving it as bootmenu.conf

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

in this youtube video

if you watch at http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNaDp...eature=related

at 3:18 he moves it using that code so couldnt I modify that .conf file and then use that same code to do what he did

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

If you are using the Tablet Note, you bootmenu.conf becomes bootmenu.conf.html. Note adds an extension .html. to everything.

Use file manager rename the file without .html extension, you will be fine.

Try leafpad, go gronmayer.com/it and search for leadpad and install.



bun

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

i know, its like I am talking to myself lol
(=p) but im just updating

now I am really confused on what is happening here
i was able to move the bootmenu.conf file ( and i know i was able to do so because it completely changed like it now says "internal Flash" , etc etc)
however when i choose internal card booting it still fails
i did run ./initfs_flash

so then i realized i hadnt finished the process
so now I am running this (went back to the second part of #4 @ http://www.thisweekinnuclear.com/KDEonN800.html)
# cd /tar-temp/bin/
# cp tar targnu
# ./targnu cf - -C /floppy . | ./targnu xvf - -C /opt

and hopefully it will work
note: i took the html off =] and i got it to work
i tried doing it with leafpad on my first attempt
i only opened leafpad 1 or 2 times
and now i cannot open it, not even from xterm

so yes fingers crossed!

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

no luck
watched the files transfer
but booting from mmc2 failed

too many tries for one night i am now again stuck

thanks for the help, though

Re: trouble Cloning OS2008 and booting properly on n810; help me
 

i got it to work my initfs_flasher seemed to be messed up or somenthing, but thanks to PINCUSHIONQUEEN It works YAY now KDE install

wuhoo