Altboot For Stock Rom

[bam]

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?

[koen]

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

[bam]

ohhhh......hmmm

[bam]

so how do I extract data from a oz ipk?

[CoreDump]

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.

[koen]

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

[bam]

cool  thanks

[bam]

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?