openAOS

Updated Gingerbread image for gen8

July 8th, 2011

BuBU has built an image based on the latest openAOS and CM code:

improved bluetooth (BT HID confirmed working)
workaround for web browser crash
default homepage is openaos.org
Archos community bookmarks
other

The latest image is openaos-gingerbread-gen8-20110708_183154.img.gz (md5sum).
Confirmed working with boot menu version featured here.

If you are new please be warned that this is still experimental and bugs are expected, for installation instructions continue reading here.

Gen7 code compiles but is not ready for public images. If you want to build it yourself for gen7 or gen8 here are some instructions.

Tags: a101, a43, a70, android, ArchDruid, boot-menu, gen8, image, multiboot, multiroot, sde
Posted in gen7, gen8 | 11 Comments »

New week, new boot menu version

July 5th, 2011

BuBU made significant improvements to the gen8 boot menu, so we’ve decided to make a blog post.

Note that this is still work in progress so you should actually follow (and link to) the boot menu guide on the developer wiki.

http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8

Most notable recent improvements:

new advanced menu which appear in OS selection (which lead to a new menu with debugging (serial stuff), recovery, reboot, disable rooted device, disable comcache)
other important feature is check validity for /file.img if does not exists it shows a list of available *.img under storage and it magically fix the menu.lst with the selected entry
fixed the touchscreen issue (under debian/other OSes)
difference between standard and debug is that the menu for serial appears early in initramfs
for both debug/standard you can switch serial… if you selected NONE initially.. u can go back in advanced menu > DEBUGGING to change to Ether or if u selected Ether you can got to same place to change to Both (or None or whatever)
Booting off partitions including µSD card partitions
IPv6 support in kernel

We plan to bring as many features as possible to the gen7 boot menu too in the near future so stay tuned.

Please report all problems on IRC and or to our issue tracker!

Here are the files for the impatient who know what they are doing:

http://www.openaos.org/wp-upload/gen8/2011-07-05/

Tags: a101, a28, a32, a43, a70, boot-loader, boot-menu, gen7, gen8, gpl, Linux kernel, multiboot, multiroot, sde
Posted in gen7, gen8 | 6 Comments »

gingerbread, another update

June 28th, 2011

< _BuBU> dm8tbr: time for new anouncement?
< _BuBU> openaos-gingerbread-20110628_122823.img.gz
< _BuBU> ATTENTION !! new zImage/initramfs.cpio.gz are required (else accelerometer will not work the right way on A101
< _BuBU> so:
< _BuBU> – accelerometer should work
< _BuBU> – both sdcard and storage should be mounted
< _BuBU> – bigger home/menu/back buttons..
< _BuBU> – update from upstream cyanogenmod (so regression or improvements expected)
< _BuBU> for the accelerometer you may have to active 180 degrees into cyanogenmod display settings