Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7

[Matthias Raives]

Neither tutorial has worked; both give me the same (aparent) problem.


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com>wrote:

> It seems the primary difference is that the tutorial you linked has me
> erase the boot and userdata partitions before flashing MOSLO onto my
> device.  I could imagine the former helping, but I don't see why I would
> need to erase the userdata partition (it should be erased upon unlocking
> the bootloader anyways).
>
> In any case, I was assuming the problem was due to the fact that I was
> using a newer model of the Nexus 7.  Can you confirm/deny this assumption?
>
> I will try following your tutorial in the near future, and will respond
> with the results
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Éibhear <eibhear.geo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Matthias Raives wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I recently posted this question to the Plasma Active forums (
>> >
>> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=211&t=117311&sid=97ffd4496f9b20f2e0cc88d6214ab8ed
>> ),
>> > ans was told to ask here.  I've been trying to flash my Nexus 7 with
>> > Plasma
>> > Active using this
>> > tutorial<
>> https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Community_Workspace/Tegra3/Nexus7/PA_installation
>> >.
>> > I get to the step where I flash MOSLO onto my device:
>> >
>> >  ​
>> > sudo fastboot -c "ro console=tty1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4" flash:raw
>> boot
>> > zImage-moslo initrd-moslo
>> >
>> > My computer reports a success, but when I press the power button to boot
>> > my
>> > Nexus 7 into MOSLO, it hangs on a screen showing the Google logo and a
>> > lock
>> > symbol. I don't know what the screen should look like when I've
>> > successfully booted into MOSLO, but even if this were the correct
>> screen,
>> > MOSLO isn't exporting the userdata partition to a USB storage device.
>> >
>> > More information:
>> > ​  ​
>> > I am using
>> > ​ the MOLSO 0.0.15.3 tarball from
>> > http://files.kde.org/plasma/active/3.0/images/nexus7/
>> > ​,​ and m
>> > y Nexus 7 is the 32GB 2013 model.
>> >
>> >  ​(On a related note, would I be better off trying to install
>> > Ubuntu/Kubuntu on my device and then install PA from there?)​
>> >
>> >
>> >  ​Thank
>> > s,
>> >
>> > Matthias Raives
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>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's a long number of months since I did this, but following the steps at
>> http://www.muktware.com/5239/how-install-kde-plasma-active-nexus-7 worked
>> for me.
>>
>> On a quick glance, the two sets of instructions seem similar, but perhaps
>> there's something subtle in the difference.
>>
>> Éibhear
>>
>>
>> --
>> Éibhear Ó hAnluain
>> Gibiris.org
>> Dublin
>> Ireland
>>
>>
>
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