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sosboot

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SOSBoot Image

SOSBoot is the AC100 Swiss Army knife. It's a minimalistic self containing linux system designed to solely fit inside the Recovery partition of the AC100.

Installation

Where to install ?

Although SOSBoot can be installed in place of the main kernel, it's the most useful when installed on the recovery partition. So that the AC100 boots by default your favorite OS, and SOSBoot stays available as a recovery system in case something goes badly wrong.

Please note that booting a different system through the recovery menu is only supported on the bootloader provided by Android 2.1. If you have upgraded your AC100 to Android 2.2 prior to install linux, it's highly advisable to downgrade your AC100 to Android 2.1 (you do have backups, don"t you ?)

Download

Official SOSBoot images are available from there: http://share.grandou.net/ac100/sosboot/

Using nvflash

From a working AC100 system

TODO

[21:22:49] <ggrandou> so go back to ubuntu 
[21:23:13] <ggrandou> download sosboot image from httP://share.grandou.net/ac100/sosboot/
[21:23:38] <ggrandou> check that your sos partition is /dev/mmcblk0p1
[21:23:51] <ggrandou> abootimg -i /dev/mmcblk0p1
[21:24:13] <ggrandou> and install it: dd if=sosboot.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
[21:26:22] <scoopr> and do you have excatly those five lines you just said somewhere in your wiki? =)
[21:35:13] <ggrandou> :)

Usage

Tips and Tricks

Sources

SOSBoot sources are hosted on gitorious: http://gitorious.org/ac100/sosboot

Retrieve git repository:

$ git clone git://gitorious.org/ac100/sosboot.git

Built it:

$ cd sosboot
$ ./build_all

Please note that build has been only tested on a cross-compile environment

Technical details

sosboot.1317850313.txt.gz · Last modified: 2011/10/05 23:31 by ggrandou