NAND Testing - 05-25 Update: New LK, Recovery.img, Kernel Updates through Recovery

[Lmiller1708]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

I haven't tried the mtdparts yet, but I did just push the change for the ppp. It's this: ln -s /data/ppp /system/etc
That will create a directory link that says any calls to /system/etc/ppp will go to /data/ppp. I believe this will work when /etc is mounted from /system/etc because it will still see the /etc/ppp directory as /data/ppp.

As for permissions, I really don't know much about them, and I feel that a lot of our issues may be stemming from them. Wish I knew more to help there, but I haven't gotten in to that yet.

We just figured out that the symlink /data/ppp /etc/ppp was not working because of this line in the init: mount -o remount,ro /system
Remove it and it will work like a charm.

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by Lmiller1708

We just figured out that the symlink /data/ppp /etc/ppp was not working because of this line in the init: mount -o remount,ro /system
Remove it and it will work like a charm.

Ok so i smell a few good changes tonight. I'll commit the change for initrd to to remove the ro out.

Can you have the frx5 patched up so i can upload it? also in that same frx5 folder ill include the nhb and update so we peole just got to 1 directory for everything.

Finally i want to commit mtd parts.. so lets try to test more tonight.

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

Ok so i smell a few good changes tonight. I'll commit the change for initrd to to remove the ro out.

Can you have the frx5 patched up so i can upload it? also in that same frx5 folder ill include the nhb and update so we peole just got to 1 directory for everything.

Finally i want to commit mtd parts.. so lets try to test more tonight.

Yeah, not sure why it is remounted as ro, but I added the symlink during the install-seq.sh while the system was rw. We can do it either way, but we may want to remove the one I added to install-seq.sh if we are doing it through sysinit.rc

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

Yeah, not sure why it is remounted as ro, but I added the symlink during the install-seq.sh while the system was rw. We can do it either way, but we may want to remove the one I added to install-seq.sh if we are doing it through sysinit.rc

I think we will remove the ro completely. I guess they did it so android does not have to do it.

yeah you can remove that line from install then.

So you finally booting up fine? were you able to ssh into it ?

Still need to test mtd parts. Looks like Lmillers is also bad so need to test yours fully.

[tiger2wander]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

I think we will remove the ro completely. I guess they did it so android does not have to do it.

yeah you can remove that line from install then.

So you finally booting up fine? were you able to ssh into it ?

Still need to test mtd parts. Looks like Lmillers is also bad so need to test yours fully.

I think we can keep that ro mount in init script.

Solution to make link of ppp is:

mount -o remount,rw /system
ln -s /data/ppp /etc/ppp
mount -o remount,ro /system

because of ro mount will avoid /system partition corrupt from system crash or kernel panic! so our android sys will have more stability.

[steveholtam]

Originally Posted by tiger2wander

Solution to make link of ppp is:

mount -o remount,rw /system
ln -s /data/ppp /etc/ppp
mount -o remount,ro /system

New log after running this code. No data still. But here is the logcat -b radio.

Edit: Wifi is broke now as well.

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by tiger2wander

I think we can keep that ro mount in init script.

Solution to make link of ppp is:

mount -o remount,rw /system
ln -s /data/ppp /etc/ppp
mount -o remount,ro /system

because of ro mount will avoid /system partition corrupt from system crash or kernel panic! so our android sys will have more stability.

Actually we cheat and premount everything but we leave it as ro. Once android boots it remounts it as ro anyway, so leaving it as rw is fine. Actually to be true to the android way we should never mount the partitions and let android handle it all, but xdandroid needs a lot of tweaks since is haretized. Cyanogen will boot straight with almost no mods, but thats because the build itself is all set from the start for nand.

So i'm patching the init script now to remove the ro. So i'll post when everything is ready for download.

Nate: whats your mtdparts again? lmillers doesnt work so i might as well commit yours so i can continue on the recovery ..

[ivwonka]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

How do I setup NAND boot?
First, you need to download the Update Utility (CustomRUU) and the latest package. Extract the NBH to the same folder as the Update Utility and flash like you would a custom ROM. Put the included modules on the SD card (modules must be from the same package as the NBH) along with the modified rootfs.img (see first post) and system.ext2 from http://xdandroid.com/wiki/Main_Page (you can use system.ext2 from BLAZN, but XDAndroid will be better for testing)

I would like to try this out, but it doesn't seem to boot for me. I must be missing something in the directions from the first 2 posts. This is my process:

1. download nbh, androidupdate, androidinstall, install-seq.sh, and customruu files from first post.
2. put the nbh and customruu files in a folder on my desktop.
3. put the other 3 files in a folder on my sd card called andboot
4. flash task29 to wipe the phone (rhod400)
5. put phone in bootload, connect to pc and run customruu (this appears to work, but it flashes fast like task29, not as long as when I flash a wm ROM).
6. After flash is finished, the linnux bootscreen with the penguin starts just like when using haret from sd card, but nothing ever happens after that.

After re-reading the first 2 posts I decided that my andboot folder also needed a system.ext2 and maybe a module and zIMAGE from a kernel. So I have tried putting those 3 files in my andboot and customruu folder but that was unsuccessful also. The only thing I don't totally understand is from the above quote to "extract NBH" and put included modules in sd card.

Could someone please point out my folly? Thank you, this is very exciting work you are all doing.

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by ivwonka

I would like to try this out, but it doesn't seem to boot for me. I must be missing something in the directions from the first 2 posts. This is my process:

Could someone please point out my folly? Thank you, this is very exciting work you are all doing.

I'd wait till this settles down a little more. Not so noob-friendly at this stage.

With that said, all you need is the RHODIMG.nbh at the root of your SD, and the three files in andboot - androidupdate.tar/tgz, androidinstall.tar/tgz and install-seq.sh. Flash the NBH from SD, and away it goes.

[vistazifta]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

I'd wait till this settles down a little more. Not so noob-friendly at this stage.

With that said, all you need is the RHODIMG.nbh at the root of your SD, and the three files in andboot - androidupdate.tar/tgz, androidinstall.tar/tgz and install-seq.sh. Flash the NBH from SD, and away it goes.

nah he can use the custom ruu if he really wants it always works for me but hes probably not renaming his androidudate.tgz to exclude the numbers that date+build number the file name