[MOD][FEB 10] MultiROM v33

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10th December 2012, 11:25 PM |#301

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ericdjobs, thank you so much! I was literally just trying to upgrade to 13.04 myself with MultiROM, and failing in the process! I will use your images then!

By the way, if anybody's stuck booting in Ubuntu because of these incompatibilities and can't reboot back into the MultiROM menu, use fastboot to flash an Android kernel, then immediately reboot into recovery and "inject current boot sector". Then reboot and you should be able to select your internal ROM.

I spoke a little too soon actually.

Looks like the daily releases have a lot of different stuff going on in the install scripts, I'm looking at it right now and seeing what I can do, but for now, after the first boot it's simply going to fail looking for the rootfs tarball.

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10th December 2012, 11:40 PM |#302

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Very correct. I tried a few things as well, but several things are missing. The first is the oobe style first boot after install. That was the first indication of a problem for me. And of course, fail after reboot. Either way, I suspect Tassadars silence is most likely him preparing a v3 for 13.04 compatibility. I ran 13.04 fresh and it really is highly improved over 12.10, right down the line. Im sure we will be dual booting it in no time.

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11th December 2012, 12:01 AM |#303

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Yeah I see what's going on, it's such a clever piece of work that I'm just sitting here in amazement at some of the scripts inside his ramdisks...

It's pretty freaking amazing, I don't think I'll be able to, there's way too much difference between the two builds.

I'm pretty much in awe though :P Definitely throwing a donation his way, goodness that's a lot of work..

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11th December 2012, 12:36 AM |#304

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I see that you are trying to install 13.04 - MultiROM v2 does not support it, mainly beacuse it carries it's own modified boot.img for ubuntu.

v3 is under construction, though - see the attachment (yeah, the display is rather ugly, but that's because of the camera flash). It is 13.04 booted from that flash drive. I can't get on-screen keyboard working though, but I think it is ubuntu bug which will be resolved soon.

I've dropped the silly flash-boot-sector-every-time-I-wanna-to-boot-different-kernel thingy, it is using kexec-hardboot to boot different kernel, which is both safer and cleaner. Requires patched kernel, though. But, changes to ubuntu itself are rather minimal, I _think_ I might even get it to official ubuntu packages, and if that is a possibility, I will definitelly go for it.

That is also the reason why v3 will not support 12.10 anymore. You will have to reinstall, sorry.

PS: MultiROM is on XDA's main page, yaay & thank you: http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...ith-multiboot/
The name in title is wrong and the screenshot they've chose does not only show no important part of MultiROM, but also has the booloader typo in it, but what the hell

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11th December 2012, 12:54 AM |#305

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Glad it finally made the portal. Hitting the "newsworthy" button didnt do much good, so Im glad diamondback got it pushed to the right writer. Congrats Tassadar!

Is that a basic 2.0 usb stick your using? I was glad to see the oobe on your screen in the attatchment. Shows how close you are. Reinstalling ubuntu is no big deal, considering the improvements they made from 12.10 to 13.04, it is well worth it. After all, we're all a bunch of flash junkies here anyways, right?

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11th December 2012, 01:04 AM |#306

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What are the changes between 12.10 and 13.04 specifically for the n7? I only ask because I just finished setting up ubuntu with all my favorite apps.

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11th December 2012, 01:11 AM |#307

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Uh, not really, It's this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-ADATA-N0...-/180930893351

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What are the changes between 12.10 and 13.04 specifically for the n7? I only ask because I just finished setting up ubuntu with all my favorite apps.

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12.10 will probably get no further updates. It was basicully just "Hey, let's see what we can do" playground. Right now, the changes are not that big (at least not the visible ones), but it will get better.

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11th December 2012, 01:37 AM |#308

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What are the changes between 12.10 and 13.04 specifically for the n7? I only ask because I just finished setting up ubuntu with all my favorite apps.

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From what I have experienced so far, there are some big differences. Touch is much more refined. Wifi will scan (site survey), instead of having to manually enter your network info. Bluetooth is fragged, unless you use the valgrind workaround. Login screen is now better accessible, along with better ua control. 13.04 also has zram enabled by default. Software center seems much more speedy. Overall experience and useability is way up, imho. One thing i have not been able to test is if they implemented otg+host mode charging into the kernel. I know it was on their to do list, but i dont have a y cable to test yet. I might just make one tonight.

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Uh, not really, It's this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-ADATA-N0...-/180930893351

12.10 will probably get no further updates. It was basicully just "Hey, let's see what we can do" playground. Right now, the changes are not that big (at least not the visible ones), but it will get better.

Well, I guess ill be buying one in the next few days. What have you experienced so far in speed with ubuntu on the sdcard vs on the usb stick? Notice any real differences, one way or the other? Of course not using any device memory is a huge plus, but the speed has me curious.

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11th December 2012, 01:42 AM |#309

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Uh, I don't have 13.04 installed in internal memory yet, will do that tomorrow, it's almost 2AM and I have to eat something, not mentioning the school in the morning.
While the flash drive's sequential read/write is quite fast, it sux at small random reads&writes, from what I can tell it is a bit slower than internal memory, but nothing dramatic.

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11th December 2012, 05:35 AM |#310

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1st off my apologies for not reading through 31 pages of this thread, but I did have a few questions.

I don't own a nexus 7 but this thread just cough my attention for I was attempting to do the same idea with a different approach.

question 1:
when you say

Code:

bootloader -> kernel -> multirom -> initrd -> android

does this mean it has to use the same kernel for all android rom or Linux? I thought Linux kernel was different from a android kernel. please correct me if i'm wrong. I've only just started doing a dual boot system on my transformer so i'm not too sure.

question 2:
my approach was to boot into recovery select the rom/Linux you want to use and have the recovery dd the kernel to the boot partition. would this idea work?(again. I was planning on doing this to a transformer tf101)

question 3:
pong? the game pong? lols nice touch!

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