MeeGo Installation

[somnathbanik]

Hi,
I have followed this link for installing MeeGo on my netbook http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-your-netbook
http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-netbook/windows-instructions
My netbook have windows 7 installed, i don't want to remove the Windows 7 from my netbook, i want to make a duel boot with meego. If i follow the above instruction for installing MeeGo I believe it will remove my existing windows 7 and then install Meego on my netbook.


Please suggest me.

[tommyclee]

My ASUS EeePC900HA netbook PC has three OSes installed in it. Its hard drive (/dev/sda) has Windows XPSP2 and Ubuntu v10.04 installed. Its 8GB SDHC card (/dev/sdb) has Eeebuntu v3.0 installed. This PC has no problems of running these OSes.

Yesterday I downloaded meego-netbook-ia32-1.0.0.20100524.img from http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook. This image is recognized as MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks (Google Chrome Browser).

After the downloading, I used the following command and extracted it into my 1GB USB thumb drive (/dev/sdc):

dd bs=4096 if=meego-netbook-ia32-1.0.0.20100524.img of/dev/sdc

Then my mount command showed the results as below:

tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$ mount
/dev/sdc1 on /media/netbook-chro-x86_64-201005242316 type iso9660 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000, iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500)

Though this command result shows "_64" in it, my USB thumb driver was able to boot and run MeeGo with no problem. This "_64" confuses me little bit. But I was lucky to run MeeGo on my netbook PC (why?).

My next step was a try to install this version of MeeGo into my SDHC card to see whether "_64" interfered with the installation and booting processes. The installation process ended up with the "Congratulation..." message. But the booting process hanged my PC for at least five minutes. The alt-F3, alt-F5 key strokes showed nothing on the screen.

Following is my log of this installation. There are two warnings and four errors listed in this log:

-----installation from /dev/sdc to /dev/sdb-----
/dev/sdc (SanDisk Cruzer Micro)
/dev/sdb (Single Flash Reader) Originally running eeebuntu3.0 normally
- Remove all partitions ... create default layout
- Switched from sda to sdb for the device of booting this installation
- Review ... partitioning layout
- Hightlight /dev/sdb
>Next
sdb /dev/sdb
sdb1 250 /boot ext3
sdb2 7071 / btrfs
sdb3 250 swap
>Next
Write changes to disk
>Next
Creating filesystem on /dev/sdb1
Creating filesystem on /dev/sdb2
Creating filesystem on /dev/sdb3
Bootloader OS lists
MeeGo /dev/sdb1 checked
>Next
Alt-F3 Looks normal
Alt-F5 Two warnings
WARNING Btrfs v0.19 EXPERIMENTAL
WARNING see http://btrfs/wiki,kernel.org before using
Alt-F6
Performing post-installation filesystem changes
Installing bootloader
Alt-F3 one error
ERROR lokkit run failed: /usr/sbin/lokkit can not be run
Alt-F5 three errors
Bad magic number in super-block while tring to open /dev/sdb2
.....
Couldn't find valid filessystem superblock
.....
Authconfig: authentication module /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so is missing. Authentication process might not work correctly.
Alt-F6 Congratulation ...
-----Boot installed MeeGo-----
>close
Remove /dev/sdc (SanDisk Cruzer Micro)
>ESC
Boot from Single Flash Reader (the drive MeeGo is installed)
Screen shows nothing. The booting process hangs.

In the Ubuntu v10.04 system, my diagnostic commands result was:

tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$ mount
.....
/dev/sdb1 on /media/206e3cbf-8c1d-4a23-9d63-569774fa24fe type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/27848240-56fb-4a1c-8c09-47017364e807 type btrfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
.....
/dev/sdb1 247919 16615 218504 8% /media/206e3cbf-8c1d-4a23-9d63-569774fa24fe
/dev/sdb2 7241216 1788928 5452288 25% /media/27848240-56fb-4a1c-8c09-47017364e807
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$ ls -l /media/206e3cbf-8c1d-4a23-9d63-569774fa24fe/
total 5186
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80463 2010-05-21 14:01 config-2.6.33.3-11.1-netbook
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2010-10-10 08:12 extlinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2010-05-24 23:17 grub
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2010-10-10 12:04 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1578795 2010-05-21 14:01 System.map-2.6.33.3-11.1-netbook
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3611840 2010-05-21 14:01 vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-11.1-netbook
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$ ls -l /media/206e3cbf-8c1d-4a23-9d63-569774fa24fe/grub
total 306
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 309400 2010-04-23 00:28 splash.xpm.gz
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$ ls -l /media/27848240-56fb-4a1c-8c09-47017364e807/boot
total 0
tommyclee@tommyclee-EeePC900HA:~$

You probably can tell the cause of this installation failure.

[solt]

Hi,
I have followed this link for installing MeeGo on my netbook http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-your-netbook
http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-netbook/windows-instructions
My netbook have windows 7 installed, i don't want to remove the Windows 7 from my netbook, i want to make a duel boot with meego. If i follow the above instruction for installing MeeGo I believe it will remove my existing windows 7 and then install Meego on my netbook.
Please suggest me.

You may try this: http://marcin.soltysiak.com/dual_boot_meego_winxp/

From my perspective it shouldn't do any harm. MeeGo should install its bootloader in MBR and boot chain should work the same

Main point is to have your disk partitioned so both Windows and MeeGo can have own space. Note, the number "1" in line

append boot 1

refers to Windows partition number and "/dev/sda3" in
append ro root=/dev/sda3 quiet vga=current

is MeeGo root partition.

[somnathbanik]

my problem has been resolved
please follow this link
http://edc.intel.com/Software/Installation-Guides/Meego/
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=270
http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-your-netbook
http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-netbook/windows-instructions