I’m posting this to give you an idea what we are currently working on.
And also so nobody thinks we’re a bunch of lazy people that don’t do anything.
The boot menu as you can see it is still a work in progress, e.g. the init script is currently more a proof of concept and will need some loving also currently I still have problems to mount the ubifs to boot into Android.
update: OK was just that I didn’t expect that Archos deleted the “system” but left “data” ubifs intact. PEBKAC detected …
update2: see finally running – Ångström & Android
Oh and before anybody asks, no we don’t have UAE running — yet! (So don’t ask for it, it’s actually rather at the bottom of the ToDo list…)
a work in progress shot of the boot manager for gen7 devices
[...] With that I also had success with dual-boot of Ångström and Android using the same kernel – as you’ve read. I’m grateful that Archos is really eager to help with something that [...]