SD Card booting without flashing your device

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Like this?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99...EN5d1hzamtjclk

Thanks a lot Ian ! I will try this one.

I have to say, in the end things are not so perfect with my MK809III / QC802.
I'm in trouble with the wifi. Sometime it disappears. I will play a little more and i'll come back to report some conclusions.

Cheers.

[sudros]

Thanks a lot Ian ! I will try this one.

I have to say, in the end things are not so perfect with my MK809III / QC802.
I'm in trouble with the wifi. Sometime it disappears. I will play a little more and i'll come back to report some conclusions.

Cheers.

My wifi never worked and I am still working on it. Mine is the RTL8723BS chip on it and it is a bugger finding a driver or anything to get it to work.

Also have something here for those who want to change there resolutions to a size that might not be supported. Found it the other day but can not for the life of me remember where. Not mine but helped me out big time.. It will let you change the resolution to whatever your monitor size it. So hope this helps;


sudo -i
cd /etc/X11
touch xorg.conf
nano xorg.conf


then in the simple nano editor, write (or just paste) this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection

then save the file using Ctrl+O, then quit Ctrl+x;
Voila - logout and login again and resolution is fixed forever;

In the above "Modes", you can put in whatever monitor resolution you want. Mine is currently 1280x1024. Hope that helped. Thanks.

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Also have something here for those who want to change there resolutions to a size that might not be supported. Found it the other day but can not for the life of me remember where. Not mine but helped me out big time.. It will let you change the resolution to whatever your monitor size it. So hope this helps;

Too bad, i just remade my sdcard with Ian 720p kernel...

There is a way to make an image of a "ready to boot" sdcard ? I have just 1 working sdcard and when i play with kernels or rfs i have to setup again everything in Ubuntu when i want to come back to an older config.

[sudros]

I have a question. The install of Linux that I am currently running on the 809iii is ubuntu 12.04 but I hate the unity desktop. Is there other versions I can be running instead of this one? This one, like I said, gives me a desktop, that I hate, but I would like to try another flavour or different configuration, like LXDE or even XFCE. Where do I get those to give me a new desktop? Thanks again.

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Current status:

WHO DEVICE STATUS CONFIRMED
marcelv T428 Unknown Pending
Boocy Unknown Unknown Pending
no_spam_for_me Unknown Unknown Pending
knawnd Minix Neo x7 Unknown Pending
AudioBubble MK809III/QC802 Working Confirmed
thafath MK802IV Working Pending
sudros MK809III Not working Pending

Mine (MK802IV) is definitively working great, wifi included. I did update, and upgrade. I have to say that I got wifi to work using the command line (or if you can try wicd) not possible with the included network manager. Thank you again Ian.

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I have a question. The install of Linux that I am currently running on the 809iii is ubuntu 12.04 but I hate the unity desktop. Is there other versions I can be running instead of this one? This one, like I said, gives me a desktop, that I hate, but I would like to try another flavour or different configuration, like LXDE or even XFCE. Where do I get those to give me a new desktop? Thanks again.

You can install several desktop environments in ubuntu. Here's a tuto but it's in french... I guess you can find same tutos in your native language.

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/faire_cohabiter_plusieurs_gestionnaires_de_bureau

If you swap for an other distro you also change all the packages. Personally i don't really like the Unity desktop but i much prefer the packages in Ubuntu than those installed with Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
But if you want to switch to another distro, you can keep your kernel.img file and change the rootfs.img file. You will find rootfs for Lubuntu and Xubuntu in this thread :

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?7209-Now-available-Ubuntu-Lubuntu-or-Xubuntu-on-the-latest-MK802IV-or-T428

Thanks Ian again !

[knawnd]

I have a question. The install of Linux that I am currently running on the 809iii is ubuntu 12.04 but I hate the unity desktop. Is there other versions I can be running instead of this one? This one, like I said, gives me a desktop, that I hate, but I would like to try another flavour or different configuration, like LXDE or even XFCE. Where do I get those to give me a new desktop? Thanks again.

Have you tried to search on the web? I got a lot of links with info on switching Unity to XFCE just by searching on "switch unity to xfce". E.g. that one.

[knawnd]

Too bad, i just remade my sdcard with Ian 720p kernel...

There is a way to make an image of a "ready to boot" sdcard ? I have just 1 working sdcard and when i play with kernels or rfs i have to setup again everything in Ubuntu when i want to come back to an older config.

One of the possible way.

[sudros]

You can install several desktop environments in ubuntu. Here's a tuto but it's in french... I guess you can find same tutos in your native language.

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/faire_cohabiter_plusieurs_gestionnaires_de_bureau

If you swap for an other distro you also change all the packages. Personally i don't really like the Unity desktop but i much prefer the packages in Ubuntu than those installed with Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
But if you want to switch to another distro, you can keep your kernel.img file and change the rootfs.img file. You will find rootfs for Lubuntu and Xubuntu in this thread :

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?7209-Now-available-Ubuntu-Lubuntu-or-Xubuntu-on-the-latest-MK802IV-or-T428

Thanks Ian again !

I tried the Lubuntu and xubuntu from there but they did not work. Think I have to change the SD card size to allow them to fit.

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One of the possible way.

I will try, thanks.

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I tried the Lubuntu and xubuntu from there but they did not work. Think I have to change the SD card size to allow them to fit.

How do you do that ? You can't boot ?
Don't work if you remane the rootfs file as rootfs.img, you place it in the folder with the other files (kernel.img, boot.img, parameter.img, sdboot_rk3188.img and create-sdcard) and launch create-sdcard ?

[sudros]

Another quick question, but can this ARM processor run a normal 32 bit version of Linux or does it have to be ARM based? Thanks.

[sudros]

How do you do that ? You can't boot ?
Don't work if you remane the rootfs file as rootfs.img, you place it in the folder with the other files (kernel.img, boot.img, parameter.img, sdboot_rk3188.img and create-sdcard) and launch create-sdcard ?

They were both over 2 gigs in size and the sd card was only reading 2 gigs of space. Nothing copied over. No idea why it will not show the full 8 gigs of storage on the card.

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They were both over 2 gigs in size and the sd card was only reading 2 gigs of space. Nothing copied over. No idea why it will not show the full 8 gigs of storage on the card.

Check your sdcard with Disk Utility or Gparted or something else regarding your OS, erase all the partition and create a new one.

[knawnd]

They were both over 2 gigs in size and the sd card was only reading 2 gigs of space. Nothing copied over. No idea why it will not show the full 8 gigs of storage on the card.

it's because rootfs.img has 2GB size. In Ian's post it's written:

Don't forget to first enter 'sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1' afer logging in so that the file system can use the entire SD card.