hello to all. I am following with great attention the developments of the discussion. I'm a non-expert user of linux and I know that seaniko7 said that for now ported to ubuntu is recommended for expert users. I though I would try, as I think many, and I tried to merge the
instructions of seaniko7 with the
advice of CrazyDdog to get a more detailed procedure possible. I hope seaniko7 or CrazyDog can control this procedure and give the ok. for me to point 4 is still unclear. thank you very much, I look forward ...
1 - Download uImage-initramfs from:
https://github.com/intromatyk/public_kernel/tree/iMX508
1.1??? - Copy the file uimage-initramfs in internal memory of boox (is my personal interpretation)
2 - Flash uImage-initramfs using dd command
with betty boox terminal emulator : dd if=/media/flash/update/uImage-initramfs of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 seek=12288
3 - Download current rootfs from:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n50udy9rki...060713.tar.bz2
4 - Format SD and create two ext3 partitions
I formatted the first partition on sd card as fat32 - the second as ext3. I did it with fdisk instead of grub.
fdisk /dev/sdx --where x is the sd card
m prints the help commant (really helpful)
n creates new partition
then you have to set the size, I set it with +xxxx where x is the number of sectors
then you have to format it... and repeat that to create a second partition
is this operation in boox with betty boox or in windows??
5 - Unpack rootfs on second partition preserving permissions and symbolic links
tar -pxjvf (with betty boox, is my personal interpretation)
6 - Boot OS using update procedure (i.e. reboot holding Back button)