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heelio | # 61 | 2008-11-01, 02:46 | Report

So why does it list a line saying external MMC card ext2 when I want it to list internal MMC, ext2 and ext3? And what can I do to fix that? I get offered internal flash, internal MMC partition 2 ext2, external MMC partition 2 ext2 (N/A),or power off. I used that internal.txt file I listed above.

heelio | # 62 | 2008-11-01, 02:49 | Report

I just noticed in my err.log file it says it can't open the 800-clone.sh file. I don't see a file by that name in the install-tools directory. Is it supposed to be there?

penguinbait | # 63 | 2008-11-01, 02:54 | Report

Originally Posted by heelio View Post

So why does it list a line saying external MMC card ext2 when I want it to list internal MMC, ext2 and ext3? And what can I do to fix that? I get offered internal flash, internal MMC partition 2 ext2, external MMC partition 2 ext2 (N/A),or power off. I used that internal.txt file I listed above.

How many times did you run it? You would have had to run it at least twice. Is the other partition there?

If its ext3 it should say ext2 and list both. Sometimes it appears to work and it does not. Sometimes you need to install it more than twice.

You could try installing bootmenu-installer, it will detect any partitions ext2/3 and write out a new bootmenu
http://penguinbait.com/bootmenu-installer.deb

Make sure virtual memory is off in the control panel also

Not sure what to say, but I guess if you dont see ext3 and you used that config, something went wrong somewhere

tweetketan | # 64 | 2008-11-02, 11:58 | Report

did everything accordingly... but when giving ./clone.sh as root is shows permission denied....OS2008 4.2008.30-2... can some1 plz help

penguinbait | # 65 | 2008-11-02, 16:04 | Report

Originally Posted by tweetketan View Post

did everything accordingly... but when giving ./clone.sh as root is shows permission denied....OS2008 4.2008.30-2... can some1 plz help

OK, open xterm
switch to root user
cd /root/install-tools/
./clone.sh

if it says permission denied

run

ls -l clone.sh

bobkoure | # 66 | 2008-11-07, 03:18 | Report

I've just run this on an N800 w 2008. AFAICT it worked just fine (I needed to run it twice) - Thanks!
I've got an 8G internal card, and set it up with a 4G FAT partition... only now I'm not sure how to get to that partition. I can see that it's a FAT16 on /dev/mmcblk0p1, but now what?
The file manager sees it as "Internal memory card" but cannot format it. Do I need to run makefs? Something else?
I'm hoping to have that 4G drive available via USB. Anything additional I need to to to make that happen?
Thanks, again...

penguinbait | # 67 | 2008-11-07, 03:33 | Report

Originally Posted by bobkoure View Post

I've just run this on an N800 w 2008. AFAICT it worked just fine (I needed to run it twice) - Thanks!
I've got an 8G internal card, and set it up with a 4G FAT partition... only now I'm not sure how to get to that partition. I can see that it's a FAT16 on /dev/mmcblk0p1, but now what?
The file manager sees it as "Internal memory card" but cannot format it. Do I need to run makefs? Something else?
I'm hoping to have that 4G drive available via USB. Anything additional I need to to to make that happen?
Thanks, again...

it should be mounted on /media/mmc1 or /media/mmc2

what does df -h say

df -h

??
If you have a windows system and plug it in usb what happens? It should already be formatted, but you could try to format under windows via usb.

bobkoure | # 68 | 2008-11-07, 14:37 | Report

Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post

what does df -h say

Code:

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2            4.0M      2.2M      1.8M  54% /mnt/initfs
none                    512.0k    100.0k    412.0k  20% /mnt/initfs/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p2            3.1G    273.6M      2.7G   9% /
none                    512.0k    100.0k    412.0k  20% /tmp
none                      1.0M     68.0k    956.0k   7% /dev
tmpfs                     1.0M         0      1.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk1p1           15.4G    447.7M     15.0G   3% /media/mmc1
/dev/mmcblk0p1            4.0G     12.0k      4.0G   0% /media/mmc2

Originally Posted by

If you have a windows system and plug it in usb what happens?

I get a message box (on the N800) "Unable to connect via USB. Memory card in use: Internal memory card" - and the FAT part of the card is not visible in windows. I also checked the disk management subsystem, where it might have appeared if it wasn't formatted, but it wasn't there, either.

I can access /media/mmc2 (the mounted FAT partition) via file manager and the command line. But the file manager sees it as "Internal memory card" not as MMC2.

I can both umount and mount - and that works as I'd expect.
The file manager "i" reports that "Internal memory card" has 3.9G, and I've tried creating files and folders there, and that works fine, so it seems the partition is both mounted and formatted.

So maybe my issue is just USB access (and possibly naming is part of that) How do you name a volume in linux, anyway? Seems like volumes and names just aren't part of the linux filesystem paradigm, but, hey, I'm new here.
Thanks!
Bob

penguinbait | # 69 | 2008-11-07, 15:15 | Report

Originally Posted by bobkoure View Post

Code:

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2            4.0M      2.2M      1.8M  54% /mnt/initfs
none                    512.0k    100.0k    412.0k  20% /mnt/initfs/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p2            3.1G    273.6M      2.7G   9% /
none                    512.0k    100.0k    412.0k  20% /tmp
none                      1.0M     68.0k    956.0k   7% /dev
tmpfs                     1.0M         0      1.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk1p1           15.4G    447.7M     15.0G   3% /media/mmc1
/dev/mmcblk0p1            4.0G     12.0k      4.0G   0% /media/mmc2

I get a message box (on the N800) "Unable to connect via USB. Memory card in use: Internal memory card" - and the FAT part of the card is not visible in windows. I also checked the disk management subsystem, where it might have appeared if it wasn't formatted, but it wasn't there, either.
(THIS IS NORMAL)

I can access /media/mmc2 (the mounted FAT partition) via file manager and the command line. But the file manager sees it as "Internal memory card" not as MMC2.
(THIS IS NORMAL)

I can both umount and mount - and that works as I'd expect.
The file manager "i" reports that "Internal memory card" has 3.9G, and I've tried creating files and folders there, and that works fine, so it seems the partition is both mounted and formatted.

So maybe my issue is just USB access (and possibly naming is part of that) How do you name a volume in linux, anyway? Seems like volumes and names just aren't part of the linux filesystem paradigm, but, hey, I'm new here.
Thanks!
(NO NAMING PROBLEMS)
Bob

Well everything looks good and sounds like its working like its supposed to. The card is in use because you are booting from it, so you cannot just yank it out from underneath via usb. There are some ways to get around this, one is booting from flash to transfer files, or booting from SD with the cable attached will allow you to access it. I want to say there is a way to update something to allow you to use this feature, but I do no recall what off the top of my head. I just dont use the USB cable for that purpose, so I am not sure.

Fanoush? Is there a way to allow the mounts???

you can also check out this thread
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=5761

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fanoush | # 70 | 2008-11-07, 20:58 | Report

Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post

I just dont use the USB cable for that purpose, so I am not sure.

Fanoush? Is there a way to allow the mounts???

Yes, this is known issue, good summary with solution here
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=17689

or see more links at http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#initfs near "With OS 2007 and 8 (but not 6) there is an issue related to booting from mmc and USB storage functionality ..."

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