pa on nexus 7 and now?

Daniel Kreuter daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 20:36:29 UTC 2013


Ok I finally got pa running. The images on that ftp stop booting when they
come to X so not usable atm.
Am 28.02.2013 20:35 schrieb "Daniel Kreuter" <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com>:

> Ok I now tried to get PA installed by replacing Android, but I get stuck.
>
> I followed the instructions on the mer wiki as well as on
> http://www.muktware.com/5239/how-install-kde-plasma-active-nexus-7 but
> when I try to boot into PA, the moslo kernel complains, that he cannot
> find the alternate kernel image.
>
> What did I do wrong?
> I can see that he looks for an image named root.tar.bz2 or root.tar.gz
> but doesn't find one.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Daniel Kreuter
> <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The only drawback of multirom, if you are new to this topic, are the
> error
> > messages, when somethjing with the rom isnm't ok.
> >
> > I tried it yesterday again with your image, but without success.
> > On the mer wiki is an image for multirom, you can extract it and use it
> as
> > base, the only thing needed to be adjusted is the root.tar.gz file inside
> > the rom folder.
> >
> > I just dom't know how to get the files for this root.tar.gz built right,
> > yours don't work :-(
> >
> > Am 28.02.2013 00:28 schrieb "Maurice de la Ferté" <kadava at gmx.de>:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> On 27.02.2013 15:40, Daniel Kreuter wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Maurice de la Ferté <kadava at gmx.de>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 26.02.2013 18:54, Hillel Lubman wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I use those and update over the network after switching the
> >>>>> repositories.
> >>>>> There are also some images found here ftp://5.9.162.110/ (I'm not
> sure
> >>>>> how
> >>>>> "official" they are and why they are in the different location).
> >>>>>
> >>>> just for heads-up. Those images are the outcome of the kickstart
> >>>> integration
> >>>> work I descriped
> >>>> in 'kickstarts and adaptations' mail thread. However, they are not
> >>>> "official" and only get build
> >>>> automatically to verify if the generated kickstart files are correct.
> >>>> This
> >>>> publishing site may
> >>>> vanish soon and hopefully this part will take over by an official.
> >>>>
> >>> Nice work. Can this be done for multirom images as well? I think that
> >>> would be quite nice to have, because you can install Plasma Active
> >>> next to each other (f.e. one for devel, one for testing/integration
> >>> and one for master).
> >>
> >> Thanks and I totally agree about this nice to have. So if you drop
> >> me a line about a working cooking recipe I will do my best to put
> >> the multirom beside :)
> >>>
> >>> I tried to just use the Moslo kernel and the image you provided and
> >>> built the multirom image based on these, but either I did something
> >>> wrong or it just doesn't work that easy, but I will have a look at
> >>> this later and see if I can get this working so we could use these
> >>> information to automate this process a little bit more, what do you
> >>> think?
> >>>
> >> I'm not very familar with this kind of multirom and I also have no
> >> Nexus7 on my own atm, but I think it could maybe done in a very
> >> similar way as shown in the URL below:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://build.pub.meego.com/package/files?package=boot-image-tegra&project=Project%3AKDE%3AMer_Extras%3AAdaptation%3ATegra2
> >>
> >> But it has to be very clear it is not my fault if someone will brick
> >> his device with the stuff what might be shipped.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Maurice
>
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