[Gta04-owner] Dual boot.

Griera griera at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 08:58:43 CET 2013


Hi:

On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:56:25 +0400
Alexander Rumyantsev <ran at mail.wplus.net> wrote:
> > > Derived from your numbers (and I have no doubt in them), mass production is 
> > > really the key. Not sure if it was discussed before: Can a dual boot GTA04 be 
> > > built Android/Replicant + QtMoko ? 
> > > 
> > > That means everybody has access to all the Android apps and people buying 
> > > GTA04 at least do not need to worry to buy a second phone with Android to run 
> > > a certain app. People just running Android on GTA04 help GTA04 to make use of 
> > > economy of scale....plus they have a reasonable chance to get a device which 
> > > sees updates for a long time.
> > > 
> > > Rainer
> > > 
> > 
> > Dual boot would be trivial, and getting Android or Replicant running should
> > certainly be possible.  But nobody is actually doing it.
> 
> Please, try http://turbobit.net/l4d245mlfg57.html

I tried to download the file several times, and always get:

   CAUTION!  From your IP range the limit of connections is reached 
   try downloading again after  XX min 

I wait, but again had the same error.

Regards.

> To prepare working SD: ./replicant_gta04_install.sh system /dev/sdb into restored
> directory. ( change /dev/sdb to your device ). Boot from SD1 using new uBoot.
> It is no problem to prepare dual-boot from this. I would like to get any SD-layout 
> idea from interested person.
> 
> Alexandre


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