When I try to boot android it stops at this in the blackscreen
getbootstate: Invalid selection:
choose bootup option:
2)MMC
9) Start a Shell
What do i type?
Check your bootmenu settup... You can do it like this...
Open xterm:
sudo gainroot 'enter'
cd /etc/bootmenu.d 'enter'
leafpad android.etc.item 'enter'
(if you prefere to use another text editor just type that name instead of leafpad)...
Try it without the sudo gainroot first, don't think you need to be root to do this
Mine looks like this:
ITEM_NAME="Android (external SD, partition 2)"
ITEM_ID="android3"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3 fat vfat"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,rw"
It should.
But some people's bootmenu item files have been getting corrupted somehow. Post number 382 has instructions on how to fix it if that happens.
It seems like the bootfile saved up anroid.item.ext instead .etc??? Should I just change the file name?? If so how do I do that in leafpad. I cant find bootmenu in file manage.. I tried just to save it as the different file name, and when I tried to boot there were 2 selection for android.??AAAA haah I know this is not that hard
Check your bootmenu settup... You can do it like this...
Open xterm:
sudo gainroot 'enter'
cd /etc/bootmenu.d 'enter'
leafpad android.etc.item 'enter'
(if you prefere to use another text editor just type that name instead of leafpad)...
Try it without the sudo gainroot first, don't think you need to be root to do this
Mine looks like this:
ITEM_NAME="Android (external SD, partition 2)"
ITEM_ID="android3"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p2"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3 fat vfat"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime,rw"
Thanks for your help with this issue, Dousan....
My file was named 'android.ext.item' and my file looked like this:
I changed first line to match yours, but after rebooting, I get error message:
get bootstate: mounting mmcblk0p2
on /mnt/new_root failed: No such device
command exited with non-zero status 255
real 0m 0.04s
user 0m 0.00s
sys 0m 0.00s
get bootstate: Invalid selection
choose bootup option:
2) mmc
9) start a shell
I do get the proper boot selection screen before this happens and select Android...
I have two options to boot with android in bootmenu. For me it's the one that looks like this, that works for me
(external SD, partition 2)
I'm not sure why you have those problems, but if you're not able to boot with non of your options in bootmenu and have to rename files i would reinstall with autoinstaller again and see if that would fix it for you
e: at the moment i can't boot nitdroid cause i flashed another zImage to get my radio working in maemo and that kernel somehow doesn't work on my device to boot nitdroid...
@archimark i had that problem, i had a few before it finally worked for me. Before the autoinstaller i tried with vm linux mint and that didn't work so i partioned my sd card on my N900 and then used the vm linux mint to download and untar the froyo to my sd card and then settup the bootmenu and that worked. After the autoinstaller i've used that
Try to look at this link, the partitioning didn't work for me with this method, but the rest did... http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install
Somewhere in this thread kingoddball gives a guide on how to partition sd card on N900...
This is how i got it to work, trying different approaches, but i can't say speciffic whats wrong in your end. Sorry...
