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I'm a new user of the Open Phoenux, and I'm struggling to get things
working, and I've got a few questions - the first one is should I be
writing this here, or in the Community Nachrichtensammlung, or on a
forum?<br>
<br>
I received my GTA04 last week and wanted to install QtMoko.
Initially the device turned on and booted LXDE quite happily, but
since trying to install QtMoko I haven't been able to charge the
battery or turn the device on. I read in a previous thread that if
it doesn't boot, then it doesn't charge, which is what I assume is
happening.<br>
Bear in mind that I'm not particularly experienced with this kind of
thing, so don't assume I've done the basics right, there are all
sorts of areas where I could have gone wrong so I'll just go through
what I tried:<br>
<br>
I formatted a 16GB microSD card (255 heads, 63 sectors, 1936
cylinders) with 4 partitions:<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System<br>
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 112453 55203 c W95
FAT32 (LBA)<br>
/dev/sdb2 112454 2216968 1052257+ 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sdb3 2217984 10409983 4096000 b W95 FAT32<br>
/dev/sdb4 10409984 31115263 10352640 82 Linux swap /
Solaris<br>
<br>
I downloaded <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA04/qtmoko-fat-v48.tar.gz/download"
title="Click to download qtmoko-fat-v48.tar.gz" class="name">qtmoko-fat-v48.tar.gz</a>
from sourceforge, and copied the MLO to partition 1, then the rest
of the folder.<br>
/media/5011-404B/gta04-init<br>
/media/5011-404B/boot.scr<br>
/media/5011-404B/bootargs.scr<br>
/media/5011-404B/menu.rgb16z<br>
/media/5011-404B/MLO<br>
/media/5011-404B/splash.rgb16z<br>
/media/5011-404B/u-boot.bin<br>
/media/5011-404B/uImage<br>
/media/5011-404B/user.scr<br>
/media/5011-404B/x-load.flash<br>
<br>
I extracted <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA04/qtmoko-debian-gta04-v48.tar.gz/download"
title="Click to download qtmoko-debian-gta04-v48.tar.gz"
class="name">qtmoko-debian-gta04-v48.tar.gz</a> to the 2nd (Linux)
partition:<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/bin<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/boot<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/dev<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/distros<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/etc<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/home<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/lib<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/lost+found<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/media<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/mnt<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/opt<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/proc<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/root<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/sbin<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/selinux<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/srv<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/sys<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/tmp<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/usr<br>
/media/94a3c4b5-d522-4d48-abda-4f591bc068b2/var<br>
<br>
I then inserted the SD card and tried to boot the GTA04. (not
plugged into USB)<br>
The gta04 init bootloader screen appeared, and I tried to select the
SD card, but nothing happened. no response, no sound, no visible
change.<br>
I waited for one minute or so, then tried selecting NAND, just to
see if it would do anything - still no change. <br>
I removed the battery, removed the SD card, replaced the battery and
tried to just boot to lxde again. <br>
It didn't boot, there was no light from the power button, no other
signs of life.<br>
<br>
-It was around this point that I read something saying the battery
should be fully charged when installing an OS - I don't know how
much charge was on the battery when I started, but it took me a long
time organising the SD card so it may have been low by the time I
tried to boot it. <br>
<br>
Previously when plugged in via USB I at least had a notification
that a wired network was active, but now there is no sign of a USB
device being plugged in (at least I don't think there is). I'm
running ubuntu 12.04 on a Macbook Pro:<br>
lsusb:<br>
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub<br>
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub<br>
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:8507 Apple, Inc. Built-in iSight<br>
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0
Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)<br>
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05ac:8242 Apple, Inc. IR Receiver [built-in]<br>
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05ac:0236 Apple, Inc. Internal
Keyboard/Trackpad (ANSI)<br>
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 05ac:8213 Apple, Inc. <br>
<br>
So am I right in saying that I have a flat battery that won't
charge? <br>
Or have I missed something important along the way?<br>
Any suggestions for the next step I should try, or is there any
further information I should supply?<br>
kind regards,<br>
Sam<br>
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