Good to hear you didn't brick it. Any chance you're going to be working on Debian for the TF300T? It has great ARM repos and is probably one of the best-supported distro's (pretty much anything for Ubuntu applies, but without the bulk that comes with it).
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I think I'll proceed with caution now, so don't expect anything in the near future. First of all I have to understand why CWM couldn't restore the backup, it works flawlessly on my HTC Desire. I fear Asus over-complicated things to make the tablet tamper-proof and even an official unlock tool can't remove all the complications.
When I'm more confident I won't brick it, I'll start looking at which kernel to try next. I think making a kernel which will fit both hardware and linux is the major problem. If that can be solved then using another distribution should be possible.
When I'm more confident I won't brick it, I'll start looking at which kernel to try next. I think making a kernel which will fit both hardware and linux is the major problem. If that can be solved then using another distribution should be possible.
Hello!
Quick question about the different distribution made for arm processors.
Do they include the same package managers as their X86 counterparts?
Can we use linux the same way we would with a standard computer ? Are the mechanisms all the same (systemd, SElinux...)
(I'm aware package may not be available for arm processors, but appart from that?)
If that's the case I would be ready to dump android and embrace a full linux TF300!
thanks
Quick question about the different distribution made for arm processors.
Do they include the same package managers as their X86 counterparts?
Can we use linux the same way we would with a standard computer ? Are the mechanisms all the same (systemd, SElinux...)
(I'm aware package may not be available for arm processors, but appart from that?)
If that's the case I would be ready to dump android and embrace a full linux TF300!
thanks
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957561
just found out their is a official Ubuntu for the nexus 7 now my question is are their any devs that want to work on doing a port, Or think it can be done for the tf300t ?
Tf300t cm10
just found out their is a official Ubuntu for the nexus 7 now my question is are their any devs that want to work on doing a port, Or think it can be done for the tf300t ?
Tf300t cm10
Arch Linux
Not sure if you found anything interesting or not, but CB22 has been working on arch linux on TF300T and TG and it boots up and has a working web browser basically. It's a great start, but it needs to be more stable. Here is a link to his dev thread:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918849&page=11
I hope we can all throw in ideas and get something good working for us.
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize arch was mentioned right above my post...
Not sure if you found anything interesting or not, but CB22 has been working on arch linux on TF300T and TG and it boots up and has a working web browser basically. It's a great start, but it needs to be more stable. Here is a link to his dev thread:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918849&page=11
I hope we can all throw in ideas and get something good working for us.
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize arch was mentioned right above my post...
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There is not only working web browser in ArchLinux by CB22, but also a pretty well working multimedia player. And there is a dual-boot kernel for Android and Arch. But my Android often restarts or just hangs with this kernel, so I prefer to use a hybridkernel announced in the same thread.
Also want to have linux (best will be archlinux) running of my rooted tf300t (unblocked, cleanMod 3.4.4), of course with dual boot.
I've studied cb22 post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918849), but still have some doubts will it work with my device. Also links are not up-to-date.
Could someone please explain what steps should I perform in order to install archlinux as second OS and have dual boot with my CleanMod? I am quite noob in terms of rooting/flashing android devices so any hints will be extremely helpful...
I've studied cb22 post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918849), but still have some doubts will it work with my device. Also links are not up-to-date.
Could someone please explain what steps should I perform in order to install archlinux as second OS and have dual boot with my CleanMod? I am quite noob in terms of rooting/flashing android devices so any hints will be extremely helpful...
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I only know a part of the story here, but here's my findings so far. I never got "fastboot boot" to work on my TF300, always giving me that 0x120000 error. I am under the impression (I MAY BE WRONG) that "fastboot boot" requires a more devloper friendly device (think HTC G1, GNex, anything Google branded).
That being said, I am curious why you wrote "real_root=/dev/sdb1" as your kernel parameters
Personally I was able to look at how a recovery image was used and flashed onto a TF300. Without going into the details, I looked at how xplodwild's recovery was being made, and hacked around that recovery to use my own (basically trivial modifications from his).
To flash my image files, I am using "fastboot flash recovery" with my own recovery, which is basicaly a mkbootimg based image file like you said (you were on the right track), but wrapped around in a BLOB file format (using blobpack / blobunpack, see this xda thread).
So to answer your question, the only way I found so far to boot my custom kernels and init rootdisks is to flash it onto the device outright.
BTW: if you were to look at a pre-baked img file, (or, if you had no idea whats the file contents like), you could load the file into a hex editor (I use 'hexer' on ubuntu/debian, thats a command-line one). If you see "SIGNED-BY-BLOB", thats a blob file (a nvidia tegra and/or asus file format). If you see something else (usually starting with "ANDROID.."), thats usually something you can either mount or unpack using linux natively (most probably with "mount -o loop file /mnt/mountpoint")
EDIT: Slightly off topic, but still for AEblefisk: if you compile your own kernel, i suggest turning on activating the framebuffer tux logo option. More importantly, you could as well try and activate the framebuffer console too, however apparently "fbcon is broken on 2.6.39.4", so says Rayman. But at least, you'd get a hint that your own kernel is loaded and running if you see 4 tuxes on screen (one per core)1Extracted from http://androidroot.mobi/2012/06/17/ubuntu-on-the-transformer-prime-preview/ regarding Ubuntu on Prime 201...
I know, I know this is TF300 forum, but it seems the TF300 is more similar to the TF201 than the primitive TF1011Linux and GNU
It's true, Linux is the OS kernel, but with the word Linux you can also mean the GNU/Linux environment with the kernel and all the applications running on top ("The gimp" or "Libre Office" for example).
Should be nice to have a GNU/Linux system running on a tablet device; I read that Canonical (Ubuntu) is working on a project for multi-core devices but I don't know about the development stage.
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I never touched boot so far to tinker around Linux booting, for the simple reason we never use the recovery partition except to flash/nandroid backup (which I rarely do), plus it gave me with Android booting if I dont press the volume button on startup. As far as development went, I think this was a win/win situation, although lilstevie (the guy who did make Ubuntu boot natively on his TF101/200) told me to "never touch recovery, flash boot instead", he was most probably talking about deploying our custom OSes to the world to use.
Now i'm kinda lost as to why the regular Android boot is being shown up. Having 0 experience with the boot partition (which i thought was similar to recovery), i can't really help you. Maybe you should get on freenode into the #asus-transformer and ask around (Don't let the numbers of nicknames scare you, this is a low activity channel, but the most knowledgables people are hanging in there. Just be sure to do your homework (aka Google etc) before asking, you should be fine )
As a sidenote, you should probably use some (most?) of the kernel parameters used in /proc/cmdline from a live Android OS. Most specifically the "tegraboot=sdmmc gpt gpt_sector=..." part. This makes sure your kernel reads the partition table at the right (unusual) location instead of reading where ever it was on a regular system (the first 512 bytes of the drive? don't quote me on this). I suppose this doesn't prevent the kernel from booting, but it will make the SSD partitions visible from your OS.
The real_root is for the gentoo initrd to find the real root filesystem on microSD. I have no idea if it will turn out to be mmcblk1p1, sdb1 or something completely different. I'll probably have to correct that once my initrd boots.
Yes I'm definitely trying to make the framebuffer logos work. Seeing that lineup of 4 tuxes is a goal in itself
I'm using 3.3.8 in gentoo so I hope fbcon is fixed.
Would that be a 'vanilla' 3.3.8? I'm asking because, in case you don't know, I think you can't have much success using the regular kernel from kernel.org, and hope it will detect all the devices (specifically touch, sensors, wifi, gps(?), etc). It will maybe boot (your guess is as good as mine), but it will surely lack a few things here and there. That's why there are a ton of devices specific github kernel code base here and there: it's basically a 'stock' kernel source code, with the constructor's additions to make their various devices work, with community enhancements on top of all that. I may be wrong on the following (if there are any veterans reading this, feel free to call me a noob and point me to the right direction), but if you try to compile ASUS' kernel source code for the TF300, funnily enough everything compiles silently UNTIL it gets to the Tegra parts where it gets noisy with over 9000 warnings all along (but it compiles). That led me to believe that 1) NVidia or ASUS are lousy coders and 2) They added (most likely) OR modified a bunch of code to the stock kernel tree to make it 100% functioning on their devices.
All that wall of text only to say that I assume that the broken fbcon issue is most probably due to either ASUS/NVidia additions to the kernel code, or a bug from the 'stock' kernel code, and i'm assuming it was fixed in later versions (which lacks device's constructor modifications then again).
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Offtopic: it seems ASUS has released the kernel source code for TF300 for their JB update! Compile all the things!! (And hope fbcon as been fixed so I can see something out of the screen)
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