[Q] Is dual-booting possible on the Note 2 - N7100?

fishingfon · Dec 18, 2012

Ps, does anyone know of a script to extract the ramfs (or initramfs) that works on the n2,
I have tried a few, but in the output directory when the script has finished, the is always just 2 folders called /dev and /root, and they are both empty.
Does anyone know of a working script to extract the ramfs?.

Thanks
Corey

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EpicLPer · Jan 7, 2013

Would be awesome! Are there already new informations about this?

BTW: Is ist also possible (like on the Asus TF201 tablet) to maybe boot Ubuntu too? Or would it be too much effort to program drivers etc?

fishingfon · Jan 7, 2013

Hi,
I have Ubuntu dual booted on my nexus 7 tablet, and that's even too small to use it on, you can't hit any buttons correctly or anything, when the Ubuntu touch is out for n2 it should be great tho

I finished compiling the dual boot kernel for n2,
First ROM boots fine, with no bugs or anything, but the second ROM doesn't boot, and it freezes at the choose ROM screen on boot when I try and select it.

I really need someone with a rooted s3 to do some things for me, but I can't seem to find anyone

Cheers
Corey

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spinose · Jan 14, 2013

can we have some news about dual boot??

it will be so nice to have dual boot on note2

yiannisthegreek · Jan 14, 2013

fishingfon said:
Hi,
I have Ubuntu dual booted on my nexus 7 tablet, and that's even too small to use it on, you can't hit any buttons correctly or anything, when the Ubuntu touch is out for n2 it should be great tho

I finished compiling the dual boot kernel for n2,
First ROM boots fine, with no bugs or anything, but the second ROM doesn't boot, and it freezes at the choose ROM screen on boot when I try and select it.

I really need someone with a rooted s3 to do some things for me, but I can't seem to find anyone

Cheers
Corey

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I have a rooted SIII that I am running Siyah Dualboot Kernel on and I would be willing to assist you if I can. Im not the most technical guy in the world but if you explain what you need done then I should be able to help you. Feel free to PM me if ya want or we can continue the dialogue here in the thread if you wish...

Alienator9191 · Jan 20, 2013

Anyone has some news about this i would really like it

1 for priv 1 for work xD

jasonchen · Feb 1, 2013

Hi fishingfon, any good news about booting the 2nd rom on GN2 ?

iampoch · Feb 1, 2013

Question: what's the advantage of having dual boot? Or, to be more precise, why would I use two ROMs?

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fishingfon · Feb 1, 2013

Alienator9191 said:
Anyone has some news about this i would really like it 1 for priv 1 for work xD

jasonchen said:
Hi fishingfon, any good news about booting the 2nd rom on GN2 ?

Hi,
I am still getting the problem of the second rom freezing.

I have found a few things i need to change in the code, and will try and do that soon. And see if it works then

I have been very busy studying for a microsoft exam the last couple of weeks, and getting ready to move back to england next month, so i havent been able to do much of the kernel.

I will try and get some done next week.

iampoch said:
Question: what's the advantage of having dual boot? Or, to be more precise, why would I use two ROMs?

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You say "Why" I say "Why not?"

It means u can have two roms installed, and you don't have to keep restoring cwm backups to change ROMs.
So I could have omega and stock installed at the sane time (or eventually cm and stock

)

Cheers
Corey

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malandante · Feb 1, 2013

iampoch said:
Question: what's the advantage of having dual boot? Or, to be more precise, why would I use two ROMs?

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To test bleeding edge features, like cyanogenmod 10.1. Even for pure geek pleasure

sHaHiN786 · Feb 10, 2013

Any news on the Kernel OP? I'll most definitely re-root my phone again once this is released, as I want a stock Jellybean experience as well as have the option to return to my standard S-Pen user experience, sucks that Samsung's S-Pen is heavily reliant of the Touchwiz framework.

Alienator9191 · Feb 10, 2013

sHaHiN786 said:
Any news on the Kernel OP? I'll most definitely re-root my phone again once this is released, as I want a stock Jellybean experience as well as have the option to return to my standard S-Pen user experience, sucks that Samsung's S-Pen is heavily reliant of the Touchwiz framework.

+1

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bliblabl · Feb 11, 2013

AW: [Q] Is dual-booting possible on the Note 2 - N7100?

sHaHiN786 said:
Any news on the Kernel OP? I'll most definitely re-root my phone again once this is released, as I want a stock Jellybean experience as well as have the option to return to my standard S-Pen user experience, sucks that Samsung's S-Pen is heavily reliant of the Touchwiz framework.

I'm with you, the whole thing! Dual boot would be nice.

Is there any success in developing dual boot for our note 2?

Can we help somehow?

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fishingfon · Feb 13, 2013

sHaHiN786 said:
Any news on the Kernel OP? I'll most definitely re-root my phone again once this is released, as I want a stock Jellybean experience as well as have the option to return to my standard S-Pen user experience, sucks that Samsung's S-Pen is heavily reliant of the Touchwiz framework.

Hi,
I havent been able to do any of the kernel for a couple of weeks, as i have been busy getting ready to move back to england, and studying for university, and i have just bought a new laptop, so i have been busy setting it up, and copying all my stuff to it, so i still need to install linux on it before i can do anymore of the kernel.

I will hopefully be able to do some more soon.

To start with the kernel will only support stock sammy roms, as i need to add a lot of custom code to the kernel amd ramfs, so that on boot, the kernel will detect the rom type, and then boot from the kernel files from that rom thats detected ( cm or stock).
I might be able to merge the dual boot ramfs with a universal rom kernel already built for the note 2, but i need to get the dual boot working first.

The dual boot is still freezing on booting the second rom, but i have a few ideas of what could be causing it.

Cheers
Corey

bliblabl said:
I'm with you, the whole thing! Dual boot would be nice.

Is there any success in developing dual boot for our note 2?

Can we help somehow?

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Hi,
The second ROM is still freezing on boot up.
The ext SD problem has been fixed, but the dual boot still isn't working right.
I have a idea of how to fix it, but I need to try it to see if it works.

The isn't really much u can do, as all I am doing is changing lines of INI code, and some C binary aswell.
But thanks for the offer.

Cheers
Corey

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Gumboot · Feb 13, 2013

Any chance to get this on a 7105?

fishingfon · Feb 13, 2013

Gumboot said:
Any chance to get this on a 7105?

Hi,
If I get the dual boot working, it would be very easy to get working on n7105, and most other variants.

Cheers
Corey

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kecek · Feb 13, 2013

Thos is true. Are this possible on note 2

jessecoleman · Feb 13, 2013

If you can successfully dual boot touchwiz and cm or similar would there be an issue because of differences in directory structure between 4.1 and 4.2?

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edwinpang · Feb 14, 2013

A dual boot kernel is in progress AFAIK

Check the developers section

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fishingfon · Feb 14, 2013

jessecoleman said:
If you can successfully dual boot touchwiz and cm or similar would there be an issue because of differences in directory structure between 4.1 and 4.2?

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Hi,
No that wouldnt cause any problems.

Cheers
Corey

edwinpang said:
A dual boot kernel is in progress AFAIK

Check the developers section

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Hi,
Do u know what the name of that thread is?.
Thanks

Cheers
Corey

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