How To Compile Your Own Kernels, Modules, Tinboot (NAND boot), and More for Beginners

[jerryyyyy]

Originally Posted by MassStash

wow vovka, too much vodka for you..... NAND means Not Actually Needing Damn haret.... lol google nand, then google haret bro....

Thanks, but I think we have probably both done that and NAND seems a touch scary to me with potential bricking of the phone more likely than with Haret. Is this a misperception?

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by jerryyyyy

Thanks, but I think we have probably both done that and NAND seems a touch scary to me with potential bricking of the phone more likely than with Haret. Is this a misperception?

Pretty difficult to brick the phone, and trust me, I have tried...

We are writing a bootloader (tinboot in this case) to the NAND which is executed, unpacks the kernel, and then runs the init/install scripts. I ended up having to write a document of this post because every time I start to update it, I either get pulled away, or we change something crucial :P

I'm still going to gear this toward NAND because we have a lot more control over cmdline and such with Haret, so you don't need some of the detail for that. I'll have a better explanation of the boot sequence in the Tinboot section too.

[jerryyyyy]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

Pretty difficult to brick the phone, and trust me, I have tried...

We are writing a bootloader (tinboot in this case) to the NAND which is executed, unpacks the kernel, and then runs the init/install scripts. I ended up having to write a document of this post because every time I start to update it, I either get pulled away, or we change something crucial :P

I'm still going to gear this toward NAND because we have a lot more control over cmdline and such with Haret, so you don't need some of the detail for that. I'll have a better explanation of the boot sequence in the Tinboot section too.

Thanks for the help. I seem to have compiled all the modules required for Haret, but they seem located in this directory:

jerryyyyy@jerryyyyy-VirtualBox:~/android/modules/lib/modules/2.6.27.46-01276-g6a6a1c1$

According to the instructions: "Unfortunately, the modules still need to be packaged, so you will need to search for all .ko files, copy them into an empty directory and compress them into a tar.gz. The name will be modules-2.6.27.46-01192-version.tar.gz. "

I guess I need to compress this directiory (hope it is this simple).

I understand you all are busy, as am I, but, interesting to hack away at this....

[rpierce99]

Originally Posted by jerryyyyy

Thanks for the help. I seem to have compiled all the modules required for Haret, but they seem located in this directory:

jerryyyyy@jerryyyyy-VirtualBox:~/android/modules/lib/modules/2.6.27.46-01276-g6a6a1c1$

According to the instructions: "Unfortunately, the modules still need to be packaged, so you will need to search for all .ko files, copy them into an empty directory and compress them into a tar.gz. The name will be modules-2.6.27.46-01192-version.tar.gz. "

I guess I need to compress this directiory (hope it is this simple).

I understand you all are busy, as am I, but, interesting to hack away at this....

afaik you don't want to just gzip the directory, what I did is write a short shell script that copies all of the .ko files (searching recursively) to a different folder and then gzips that, using the modues-versionstuff.tar.gz format. I don't remember where I found the example script (could have been the first post or a link from the first post) but I only had to make some small modifications to get it to work.

[jerryyyyy]

Originally Posted by rpierce99

afaik you don't want to just gzip the directory, what I did is write a short shell script that copies all of the .ko files (searching recursively) to a different folder and then gzips that, using the modues-versionstuff.tar.gz format. I don't remember where I found the example script (could have been the first post or a link from the first post) but I only had to make some small modifications to get it to work.

Worked fine. Thanks...