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Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: bam on July 22, 2006, 03:26:55 am

Jus like the post says is it possible to compile and configure an altboot for stock rom, something to choose which runlevel, like goto emergency linux boot mode etc... qt/noqt, and perhaps point it at say a pdaxrom install? or even a debian "pws" install?

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: koen on July 22, 2006, 03:31:47 am

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Jus like the post says is it possible to compile and configure an altboot for stock rom, something to choose which runlevel, like goto emergency linux boot mode etc... qt/noqt, and perhaps point it at say a pdaxrom install? or even a debian "pws" install?
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Altboot is shell code, no need to compile

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: bam on July 22, 2006, 05:04:11 am

ohhhh......hmmm

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: bam on July 22, 2006, 05:15:54 am

so how do I extract data from a oz ipk?

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: CoreDump on July 22, 2006, 06:31:29 am

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so how do I extract data from a oz ipk?
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Just like you'd extract any modern .ipk:

ar -x $IPK (IIRC)
tar -xzf data.tar.gz

There are older ipk files which do not use ar for the top-layer compression, but tar+gzip.
However, OZ only uses the newer ar archives. I dunno what the other distros use.

altboot is very flexible and could be made to work on any distro that installs the busybox tools with a bit of efford.

If you intend to do so, patches are of course very welcome.

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: koen on July 22, 2006, 08:05:39 am

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so how do I extract data from a oz ipk?
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Just like you'd extract any modern .ipk:

ar -x $IPK (IIRC)
tar -xzf data.tar.gz

There are older ipk files which do not use ar for the top-layer compression, but tar+gzip.
However, OZ only uses the newer ar archives. I dunno what the other distros use.
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ipkg has been using the .deb compatible for some years now

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: bam on July 22, 2006, 01:46:04 pm

cool  thanks

Title: Altboot For Stock Rom
Post by: bam on July 22, 2006, 03:57:15 pm

and yes this is my intention....but we shall see how successful I am. Hoping to be able to boot pdaxrom(the 3000 version) and console(at least), Coredump, any chance in describing the boot process and how altboot interacts with that?