Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7

[Daniel Kreuter]

Hi, you can also look at [1], maybe this helps?

Cheers

[1] http://ruedigergad.com/2012/12/21/plasma-active-for-nexus-7-running-the-touch-optimized-plasma-active-linux-distribution-on-nexus-7/

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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