Help with dual booting Mer - Page 6 - maemo.org

kingzeus | # 51 | 2010-03-06, 23:08 | Report

Still the same didnt work shuts down

meep | # 52 | 2010-03-07, 01:08 | Report

I get the same problem... The phone turns off if I select the second item from the bootmenu...

Any ideas?

Thanks very much indeed

meep | # 53 | 2010-03-08, 13:03 | Report

For anyone interested, I resolved this problem by removing the boot flag on the partition and moving it to the beginning of the SD card.

Cheers

scottprotege | # 54 | 2010-03-08, 18:33 | Report

Exactly

"try putting the sd card back in the computer and use gparted to put a boot flag on the drive"

Not the parition guys, whole drive needs to be bootable. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Meep, were you able to get it working using the instructions i posted? Im confused as to why people are having problems

meep | # 55 | 2010-03-09, 12:35 | Report

I had to remove any boot flags from the partition / drive, otherwise your instructions were great.

Cheers

OptX | # 56 | 2010-03-09, 13:48 | Report

A solution for people that use a custom kernel (Like titan's, Jebba's, or selfmade) :
I had the problem that mer did not boot after using the kernel-flasher. After i talked to titan, i know now why.
There are some modules that are missing in mer. So just make a copy from the folder /lib/modules/2.6.28maemo-omap1 on the N900 and put it in the mer sdhc /lib/modules.
Worked fine for me.

Last edited by OptX; 2010-03-09 at 13:52. Reason: typo

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meep | # 57 | 2010-03-09, 21:12 | Report

Can anyone help me to get bluetooth working?

I have installed blueman (needed to uninstall hildon-home as there was a conflict with notification-daemon for lxde) and it doesn't pick up the bluetooth adapter; all of the controls for it are greyed out.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

AndrewG | # 58 | 2010-03-10, 20:49 | Report

How do we know if we are adding a boot flag to the partition or to the whole drive?

meep | # 59 | 2010-03-10, 21:26 | Report

If you want to check the bootflag, open up the partition in gparted (usually sdc1 if you only have the n900 connected) and check under "flags". If it is blank, you do not have to do anything.

If it says "boot" under this, right click, use "manage flags" and remove the boot flag

MohammadAG | # 60 | 2010-03-15, 16:29 | Report

Originally Posted by OptX View Post

A solution for people that use a custom kernel (Like titan's, Jebba's, or selfmade) :
I had the problem that mer did not boot after using the kernel-flasher. After i talked to titan, i know now why.
There are some modules that are missing in mer. So just make a copy from the folder /lib/modules/2.6.28maemo-omap1 on the N900 and put it in the mer sdhc /lib/modules.
Worked fine for me.

Works for me, thanks a heap mate
I'm ditching the Maemo UI though, might install LXDE since it's slow to the point that it's not really that usable.