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Warning: By following these instruction you might cause damage to your N900 device. Make sure that you create a backup of your device before continuing. We do not take any responsibility of the damage that might be caused to your device.

Contents

Prerequisites

  1. Fremantle installed on N900
  2. Kernel with kexec support
  3. Bootmenu (Optional)
  4. 2G+ micro SD card

Kernel with kexec support

In order to boot MeeGo from your Fremantle installation you need to install kernel that supports kexec, that can be found from HERE.

Bootmenu

If you wish to have bootmenu to select either Fremantle or MeeGo during boot you need to install bootmenu to your device. The bootmenu can be installed from HERE.

Install MeeGo

Next we install MeeGo to external micro SD card (size >= 2G). NOTE: The content of the card will be deleted, so copy all essential data to safe location before continuing.

Linux

The image can be written with ...

Booting to MeeGo

You can boot to MeeGo with bootmenu (if installed) or with kexec command.

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