I'm presently trying to get arch linux wroking on my transformer tf101. I'm taking advice from the thread at "archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4670", but there's something diffrent in my approach: I'm trying to boot arch from the SD card on the keyboard (not the micro SD card).
You can read the posts on the linked thread in order to know all I've been through.
I use linux3.1.10.img file containing zImage (linux kernel), initrd.img and bootimg.cfg (which helps me specify where's the OS to boot, here it's root=/dev/sda1 for the sdcard on the keyboard). After having made my modifications to the files, I update the linux3.1.10.img file and blobpack on LNX partition ready for flashing through CWM.
The flashable file actually flashes from CWM and something appears on the screen when it reboots, but it stops with errors. The problem seems to be that the SD card is not readable at the moment initrd does it's job (it's related to the fact that I use the SD card on the keyboard). Here's what it looks like:
Code:
Initramfs unpacking failed: LZMA data is corrupt
upli_phy_power_on: timeout waiting for phy to stabilize
upli_phy_power_on: upli write failed
tegra-ehci tegra-egci.1: Failed to power on the phy
g_ether gadget: rndis: can't bind, err 0
mxt_config_settings
power_supply dock_battery: driver failed to report `status' proterty
power_supply dock_battery: driver failed to report `status' proterty
sdhci-tegra sdhci-tegra.2
sdhci-tegra sdhci-tegra.2
sdhci-tegra sdhci-tegra.0
sdhci-tegra sdhci-tegra.0
Tegra protected aperture disabled because nvmap is using system memory
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[... bunch of errors I don't want to type ...]
CPU1: stopping
unwind: Unknown symbol address c0008364
unwind: Index not found c0008364
Light sensor: a13000a_interrupt_handler
So I need to modify the initrd.img in order to have the sdcard reachable (I guess), but I don't know what modification to do. May be someone could help?
THREADS I'VE USED FOR GETTING HERE:
- archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4670
- forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1537566
I'VE ATTACHED THE IMAGE I USE FOR FLASHING (NOT BLOBPACKed YET)
"Initramfs unpacking failed: LZMA data is corrupt" would be a good place to start. If the initramfs fails to run then the kernel is missing a bunch of stuff for the boot process, so things will fail, like mounting the root filesystem.
Did you check this out? Someone seems to suggest a change in initramfs.conf...
I've red the post and checked my initramfs.conf file and it was already set to COMPRESS=gzip.
Anyway, I don't think it's related because the guy on the thread I linked above succeeds with the same image file. The only differences are :
- He uses the micro SD card rather than the SD card in the keyboard
- The configuration file bootimg.cfg is set with root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 (micro sd card) rather than root=/dev/sda1 (SD card on the keyboard)
So, as Gary (the owner of the thread on archlinux-arm Forums) said, I should make a change related to the search of devices made by init script(?), in order to have detected the right device before going into initramfs job.
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The problem seems to be elsewhere because I've just tried with micro SD card and I had the same error messages! My guess would be that the blob file may not be flashed completely and that's why I would get the LZMA archive corrutpion error. Or it may be something else, I don't know.. I'm pretty lost....
I'm using:
- ASUS Transformer TF101 SBKv2
- Latest stock ASUS firmware installed
- CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 roach-tf101-r2
Hello, I haven’t read all the linked threads you posted but I remember I tried to install Arch on my TF101G as well once, but using a chroot method. I haven’t got too far though and for a lack of support I gave up =S
Thing is, I’d love to see Arch on my tablet as well, since it is my main (only) system on my pcs. Can you try installing TWRP as recovery, I’ve been using it for about a month now and it seems a lot more trustful and maybe it will be able to help you a little bit more. Also, aren’t the devices on /dev/block/sda1? I remember it being like this on mine, but maybe my current rom put it that way.
I’m subscribing here and will be reading the other threads to try it out myself. Just, what do you mean by sbkv2?
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leomeloxp said:
Can you try installing TWRP as recovery
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I've just finished installed ubuntu on my tf101. I needed something to let me work while I ship my laptop to ASUS for repair. I won't be messing with my sd card that got ubuntu installed on it. But, if I get a micro sd card to play with, I'll give it a try (I can't promess I'd be doing this soon)
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aren’t the devices on /dev/block/sda1?
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From CWM and Android point of view, devices are, in fact, located as you said. But, from linux distros point of view they are rather disposed like I said (/dev/sda1). So when you want to tell a linux distro to look for files, you use this "/dev/sda1" rather than this "/dev/block/sda1". That's what I understood after playing with this.
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Just, what do you mean by sbkv2?
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All I know is that there are two types of transformer tf101: SBKv1 and SBKv2. I think ASUS has made some changes in order to prevent people messing with roms (which is what we're doing) but I think people have worked their way around this issue and it's not of concern anymore..
So, any news on this one?
I read the posts on the ALARM forum, it seems a little bit tricky to do it, I might some good couple of days at home to be able to focus on this one. But apparently they got Kernel 3 on it already, with Wifi and X server (even Openbox I think).
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Hi,
I know there's already a thread about Ubuntu, but I ran across this, and it looks a little different:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10306407#post10306407
It looks like, instead of replacing the Nook Color ROM, they're booting Ubuntu from the (external, I think) sdcard.
Would it be possible to do something like this with the Gtab? If it is, maybe we could have an Android/Ubuntu dual boot?
Jim
http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-nexus-oneandroid/
The above is the based info on this. It looks like, basically, they run Ubuntu under chroot (in a jail).
This seems like it'd be cool, on a Gtab!
Jim
jimcpl said:
http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-nexus-oneandroid/
The above is the based info on this. It looks like, basically, they run Ubuntu under chroot (in a jail).
This seems like it'd be cool, on a Gtab!
Jim
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Would it be fast like that? I used to run Android on an sd card on my old HTC Titan phone. It was slower than Molasses in winter.. Would be neat if it could be done, and was still fast.
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Would it be fast like that? I used to run Android on an sd card on my old HTC Titan phone. It was slower than Molasses in winter.. Would be neat if it could be done, and was still fast.
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Hi,
I don't know the answer to your question, but we run stuff under chroot all the time (mainly things like Apache httpd) for security reasons, and running under chroot doesn't add overhead. It's not like it's running a VM/hypervisor. Rather, chroot just isolates the app (in this case, Ubuntu) from "seeing" the rest of the system, so I think that if it could be done, the Ubuntu "instance" would run at native speed. Again, this would be more like a dual-boot configuration, rather than a VM type situation.
If you read through the 2nd link, it's kind of neat the way they did this, i.e., they got just a command line Ubuntu going first, then they used apt-get to bring in the X stuff on top of that, kind of like bootstrapping, at a little higher level. Also, similar to how the earlier versions of Windows worked, i.e., basically you'd boot to DOS (yikes !) then start Windows from there.
Jim
i want this soooooo bad.....
When I have some time, I wouldn't mind trying to get something like this working on Gtab, but at this point, I'd (we'd) need some guidance.
For example, would we need our own img file for the Gtab, or could we use the one that was linked on those sites? Those are, I guess, for Nexus One and for EVO, so the native code would be for Snapdragon. Would those work on the Gtab, which is Tegra 2?
I originally hesitated posting this in the Development forum, but maybe it should be. I don't know ...
Jim
There is an ubuntu image that runs on the external micro-sd card. You have to change the boot loader to run it. Right now you have to have an external mouse and keyboard.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894960
It does not modify the internal storage so you can restore a boot image from Clockwork and boot back into android.
NMCBR600 said:
There is an ubuntu image that runs on the external micro-sd card. You have to change the boot loader to run it. Right now you have to have an external mouse and keyboard.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894960
It does not modify the internal storage so you can restore a boot image from Clockwork and boot back into android.
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Hi,
I read through some of that thread for awhile now (not too closely), but I had the impression that the Ubuntu in that thread replaced the normal Gtab ROM?
So, is the only thing that gets replaced on /sdcard the boot image? If that's the case, then it wouldn't allow a dual boot, without using CW and restoring the appropriate boot image?
Sorry, not arguing, but just trying to understand...
Jim
It uses a custom boot image to load ubuntu from the micro sd card. It will not boot android. You have to reflash the boot image to boot back into android. There is a post in that thread (#57) where a dual boot capable boot image is being asked for.
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It uses a custom boot image to load ubuntu from the micro sd card. It will not boot android. You have to reflash the boot image to boot back into android. There is a post in that thread (#57) where a dual boot capable boot image is being asked for.
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I think I remember that "request" in that thread ...
I guess that the nice thing about the approach at the beginning of this thread, if it could be possible, would be both runnable "images" (the Gtab/Android and the Ubuntu) would exist (but not run) simultaneously, the former on the internal SDCARD, and the latter on the external microSD card...
Jim
ext2 support?
Hi,
I've been reviewing the shell scripts that are used for this (downloaded from the link from the original NC thread), and it looks like almost everything would be ok, except:
- It looks like the ubuntu.img file is an image with an ext2 fs on it (they do a loop mount on it). I tried "busybox modprobe ext2" on my Gtab (stock TNT 3452), and it looks like it doesn't have the .so or whatever to support ext2. Does anyone know if it's possible to get ext2 support on the Gtab?
- I was hoping to at least try the mount, to see what's there, but since I can't, I'm still assuming that the ubuntu.img was compiled for the NC, so I'm still wondering if I could get it mounted, if the code in there would work? According to:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/28/nook-color-processor-revealed-arm-cortex-a8-based-ti-omap3621/
it's an "ARM Cortex A8", whereas the Gtab uses a Tegra 2, which I guess is an ARMV7?
Thanks,
Jim
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Hi,
I've been reviewing the shell scripts that are used for this (downloaded from the link from the original NC thread), and it looks like almost everything would be ok, except:
- It looks like the ubuntu.img file is an image with an ext2 fs on it (they do a loop mount on it). I tried "busybox modprobe ext2" on my Gtab (stock TNT 3452), and it looks like it doesn't have the .so or whatever to support ext2. Does anyone know if it's possible to get ext2 support on the Gtab?
- I was hoping to at least try the mount, to see what's there, but since I can't, I'm still assuming that the ubuntu.img was compiled for the NC, so I'm still wondering if I could get it mounted, if the code in there would work? According to:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/28/nook-color-processor-revealed-arm-cortex-a8-based-ti-omap3621/
it's an "ARM Cortex A8", whereas the Gtab uses a Tegra 2, which I guess is an ARMV7?
Thanks,
Jim
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if i remember correctly it's an arm 9 that shows up as a 7....
Hi guys and gals.
I'm quite an experienced android users. I owned Galaxy I9000 and now I own Galaxy I9100. I flash ROMs, I root my mobile with various Kernels and stratup scripts. I OC/UV my CPU as well and familiar with CWM mode. Basically, a power-user
I got my eee pad as a present this week and I would like if someone can bring me up to speed about basic kerenl for rooting and advanced feature kernel that is popular among the users here.
How to get into download mode and recovery mode.
I did some searching and came up with many results, however, I would like a pointer or two so I could save me up some reading time.
Much appreciated
Depends on your device serial. If yours statrting with b70(some)/b80/b90, then you can do nothing at this time.
And a little reading in the development sub-forum, will answer most of your questions.
Anything above b70 cant be rooted. I hear some of teh b70 can but not sure..
ROMS.. the 3 top ones I can think of are Prime, Revolution and Revolver. Clemsyn and Blade kernel are popular.
Mine is B70.... so is there anything I can do at all?
Run SBKDetect from the evelopement thread - if it says SBKv1, then you can, if says SBKv2, then you can't
Anyway, you can try BRK's toolkit and if you get a write error, then you can't root it now.
Ok ill try that. Right now im with v3.2.1 is there a date for ICS version?
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Asus said "very early" - speculations are that sometime in December.
Do you have an explanation as to why is this device a bit laggy? I only have the email+weather widget and it's quite out of the box homescreen icons but it feels that the scrolling is a bit laggy...
No, I don't have lags at all, so I can not explain your issue.
It says that the SBK detect is for linux (?) how can I run it?
Can you describe the lag? I've no lag with my TF at all. Here's a demo video I made.
No lag at all.
gil80 said:
It says that the SBK detect is for linux (?) how can I run it?
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There's also a version for Mac.
But I'm on a PC....
And as for laggin I mean that when scrolling it is not as smooth as I would expect or like Ipad2. and I feel that if I will add one more widget... it will simply wont move.. there's this delay from the gesture of scrolling to the actual scroll
If in browser, a fully up to date (or at least Prime ROM) system it isn't so bad any more but for best, use Opera Mobile.
If in home, I've seen mention of it being a HC problem that was later updated away or sth, someone please chime in.
If in every app, something is frakked.
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There's also a version for Mac.
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I need a PC version. Is there any?
No, I don't believe there's a Windows version of the SBK detect script available.
Does anyone know if running the following command using nvflash would fail if he has an SBKv2 tablet?
Code:
nvflash --bct transformer.bct --setbct --configfile flash.cfg --bl bootloader.bin --odmdata 0x300d8011 --sbk 0x1682CCD8 0x8A1A43EA 0xA532EEB6 0xECFE1D98 --sync
I have a B7O tablet that is SBKv1, so it has always worked for me, and I have no way of knowing if it would fail for an SBKv2 tablet.
gil80: One thing you could try to do is download an Ubuntu LiveCD (or any other version of Linux that has a LiveCD available). If you boot your computer from the Ubuntu LiveCD (or it can be installed to a thumbdrive if your computer can boot from USB), you could go to the xda site and download the SBKDetect script and run it. Keep in mind that anything you download using the LiveCD disappears when you shut the computer down (if you use a thumbdrive, it's possible to create a persistent data partition on the thumbdrive so that stuff you download is saved instead of discarded.
This would allow you to use Linux just long enough to run the SBKDetect script to find out if you can root your TF. If you have no Linux experience, then this might be too much for you, but if you have ever used a terminal emulator in Android, you have enough experience to use the SBKDetect script in a temporary Ubuntu Linux environment.
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It says that the SBK detect is for linux (?) how can I run it?
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you can run install linux in a vmware machine, i use ubuntu
The Asus transformer file system is RFS or EXT4?
gil80 said:
The Asus transformer file system is RFS or EXT4?
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Depends on where in the filesystem you are/what partition you are talking about. The "/sdcard" partition is vFAT or FAT32, I believe... this makes it so that a Windows computer can use the partition as an external USB hard drive or USB flash drive. The same is generally true for external media, such as MicroSD and SD cards, but you have the option of formatting those as NTFS yourself if you prefer (or any other filesystem that the ROM you are using recognizes).
When you get down into the root partition/root of the filesystem ("/"), you are looking at EXT4 (possibly EXT3... again, depends on the ROM). Other partitions on the internal flash memory may use yaffs/yaffs2 (I have seen this when searching the Googlies, but I have no experience with any partitions that use it... I have only ever messed with the LNX partition, which is 6 on the TF101-A1), and yet others are encrypted.
A ROM developer would be able to tell you exactly what partitions use exactly which filesystems, but I am pretty sure that EXT3 or 4 and vFAT or FAT32 are used.
Hi xda-dev forum,
Hopefully, this thread is appropriate for this forum, if not please advise as to a better place to post this question.
I've got a tab2 10.1, i'm rooted and running CM9 with Clockworkmod Recovery. I've experimented with running a full linux distro in a chrooted environment, and it seems to work alright. What I'd like to do now is install debian to an external sd card and optionally boot from the external drive rather than the internal one.
So far, I haven't found any threads discussing this, but please point me to resources if you know of any. Alternatively, we can create a resource here if people are interested in discussing this further in this forum.
Many thanks in advance.
That would be great! You can boot from SD on the nook color. I ran all kinds of different things on it.
If you find a way will you share the disk image?
So far, I havent found an easy way. Ive got a debian binary file system, can chroot into it, have connected to an x11 desktop with metacity and/or icewm over vnc with no problem.
Seems like I should be able to pass a rootfs=/path/to/extsdcard/ to the bootloader command that calls the kernel. I think the android kernel I have on internal sd should be fine to control processor and interface with hardware, I just want to point to external sd as rootfs when the kernal starts. Then, when the kernel finishes, it would call the /sys/init on external sd and Id be running debian natively (armel binaries) on the tab.
Alas, seems the clockworkmod recovery boot doesnt have configurable menu options (like grub, menu.lst), so I guess I can compile my own bootloader (possibly customize clockworkmod or android_bootloader) or try to use fastboot.
fastboot offers pointing the kernel to an arbitrary rootfs, but I havent gotten the p5113 into fastboot mode. Least not yet.
That's all I know for now. I'd love any advice from the experts.
If nobody here can help, for example confirming the info in my last post, making a suggestion, etc, then I wonder if there's another forum that someone can recommend.
Any help?
I'm pretty sure none of the Tab 2's have fastboot mode.
Ok, so, I want to dual boot ubuntu and android but:
I do not want to change my current partition layout (and lose all my data)
I don't want to touch the current android install AT ALL
I would like to run ubuntu from my SD Card
I would like to run ubuntu from an Image (img file) on my sd card
I would like to press vol down and power at boot to boot to ubuntu
I am rooted, I have (what the sbkcheck says) SBKv1
One more thing.
Why don't we have an SL101 forum?
I believe there is a pseudo-dual boot for our device where you could run Ubuntu from SD card. But if I remember correctly, each time you want to switch operating systems, you have to flash a different kernel. I'm not entirely sure though, I'll keep looking for the post.
Even though you have SBK1, SBK differs per device. Meaning Nvflash still isn't available to us yet.
Also, SL101 doesn't have a forum because frankly there aren't enough users. Plus the device is so similar to the TF101 and some ROMs run fine on both.
Solar.Plexus said:
I believe there is a pseudo-dual boot for our device where you could run Ubuntu from SD card. But if I remember correctly, each time you want to switch operating systems, you have to flash a different kernel. I'm not entirely sure though, I'll keep looking for the post.
Even though you have SBK1, SBK differs per device. Meaning Nvflash still isn't available to us yet.
Also, SL101 doesn't have a forum because frankly there aren't enough users. Plus the device is so similar to the TF101 and some ROMs run fine on both.
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I remember seeing a way to flash the recovery partition with something that allowed you to press vol down and power to boot to ubuntu, using the SDcard as / .. basically i'd like that type of setup only with an .img file on the sdcard instead of using the raw sdcard.
I unlocked my boot loader and have not yet found where I can boot from a SD card or usb thumb drive...
I want this as a step towards partitioning and dual boot option...
I have the 64gig infinity, I want to install 10.4 Ubuntu, or more modern mint, or...
Any words of help, how to get this infinity to stop and notice my usb thumb as a boot option?
THANKS
koko
kokoPedli said:
I unlocked my boot loader and have not yet found where I can boot from a SD card or usb thumb drive...
I want this as a step towards partitioning and dual boot option...
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Unlocking the bootloader only allows you to install and boot unsigned recoveries and kernels. Little is known how to reconfigure the bootloader - I have never seen a thread here how to do it. However I know some of the theory behind it:
Tegra devices use a proprietary partition table. On some devices, like our TF700, this partition table is even encrypted with a device-specific key, same as the bootloader itself. This is the partition table with the 3-letter partition names like BCT, PT, SOS, LNX, etc. It is used for the bootloader's blob flashing feature, and for NVFlash.
The Linux kernel on the TF700 (also on the TF101) uses a standard GPT, which is located at the end of the eMMC. This partition table does not contain some of the hidden partitions, in particular the boot partitions that contain recovery and kernel are invisible.
I think your safest bet is to use the same kernel for both Android and your Linux distribution, like rabits did, or try to use kexec.
> The Linux kernel on the TF700 (also on the TF101) uses a standard GPT, which is located at the end of the eMMC. This partition table does not contain some of the hidden partitions, in particular the boot partitions that contain recovery and kernel are invisible.
> I think your safest bet is to use the same kernel for both Android and your Linux distribution, like rabits did, or try to use kexec.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for responding! I appreciate it =)
And I wish I knew enough to try what you suggest, but I do not...
I got this infinity for 2 reasons, one was the hardware looked great to turn it into a linux box, the other was to use the speech to text function...
I was told by the sales guy that function worked fine out of wifi range... I guess he must have had a cell version od android, as I get nothing out of wifi range. Now I wish I had never gotten this, or at least never unlocked it with the asus unlocker so I could return it!
oh well, live and learn, I guess someone will still give me SOMETHING for it.
Unless someone else here tells me how to run non-android version of linux on this box ? Please ?!?
Read the Ubuntu thread from rabits.