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markc

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From: Gold Coast, Australia

Registered: 2007-05-15

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MeeGo IVI

This is hardly Arch related except I installed it from an x86_64 Arch partition and currently running it on my Intel gfx laptop using the Arch i686 2.6.34 kernel from testing so a few rough notes might be useful in case anyone else wants to try something similar. The point is it seems to work fine with the Arch i686 kernel whereas the original 2.6.33.5-23.1-ivi kernel has no initrd and no builtin ext4 fs.

Assuming VirtualBox is installed and you have a spare partition on the same machine and access to a i686 kernel,

wget http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.0.1/ivi/images/meego-ivi-ia32-noemgd/meego-ivi-ia32-noemgd-1.0.1-20100729.1.iso

and boot it up in VirtualBox then rsync the live system directly to the mounted ext4 (or ext3) partition (or directory) on the same machine (or another one) as root (/etc/ssh/sshd_config -> PermitRootLogin yes)...

rsync -zavx / 192.168.1.2:/mnt/sda9 # a freshly ext4 formatted partition in my case

now on your main system rsync or copy an i686 /boot/vmlinuz26, /boot/kernel26-fallback.img, /lib/modules/2.6.34-ARCH/* and /usr/src/linux-2.6.34-ARCH/* (if you need to build any kernel modules, I needed the rtl8192se_pci from Intel for my Toshiba laptop wireless) and make a copy of your regular Arch boot stanza from grub (menu.lst) or grub2 (grub.cfg) and change it to boot the Meego IVI partition. This is my grub (1) entry from a Jolicloud installation in yet another partition on the same laptop...

title       Meego IVI Arch kernel (on /dev/sda9)
root        (hd0,8)
kernel      /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda9 ro quiet i915.modeset=1
initrd      /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

This is posted from Chromium installed with yum on this Meego IVI installation.