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[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi vicdavery,

Did you kept the install log ? If not and because it's not working now, please try do a reinstall the 0.7.9 to the sdcard slot of the dock and save install log.

The exact message you got on boot shoud also be interesting.

I'm saving my actual setup to do the test too.

TIA

Regards

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vicdavery,

I just have done a fresh install of 0.7.5 (i don't have the 0.7.9 here, i'm downloading it but slow speed at office) on a sdcard of 16Gb inserted in the dock slot, it stuck for a minute or so at 90% but install finished without error.

Since i was able to boot, i also have a message complaining about invalid superblock but on sda, not sda1. Kernel boot params are (on this setup) using sda1. I think this error about invalid superblock is in /lib/multi/functions.sh from rabits's job not sure (looks like the for loop don't exclude sda from /proc/partitions)

This is a normal ext4 partition on sdcard, so you should be able to mount it on an another computer to check if you've access.
[Asus Transformer TF700] vicdavery:
No, I didn't save the log. I will try again this afternoon.

The pausing at 90% seems to be standard, I had that on Ubuntu too. The whole install took about 10minutes

When doing the Arch install it got to about 8% and then the bar raced across to completion. It got to complete in about 1 minute.

This made me suspcious, and then I had the failures on boot.

I'll post install logs this afternoon hopefully.

Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
vicdavery,

Indeed, 1 minutes is far too fast, 10 minutes is more common.

Try to check the content of sdcard before re-launch install, you should (normally) have about 2Gb of data inside the ext4 partition.

If no (in 1 minute setup i don't think or i may be interested by the sdcard :)), restart install.
[Asus Transformer TF700] vicdavery:
ugamoent Rue

Out of interest when doing the install do you adjust any of the default settings?

I tried just using defaults but most times I did change the rootfs size since I had a 16Gb card.

Also are you using CleanROM? Or CyanogenMod, etc?

Still downloading 0.7.9........
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
vicdavery,

If you install to the sdcard you can't change the partition size during setup. If you install a rootfs on a file you can.

I did a default install except selecting where to install.

But if you install on sdcard, adjusting partition size is easy even with fdisk (or any other partition manipulation tool) after setup.

I use Cyanogenmod and workdowg (if i'm right) use Cleanrom.

Did you checked the sdcard content on an another computer ?

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] vicdavery:
Hi thanks for your help.

Still no joy. I have been installing to the dock sdcard (/dev/sda1 in the installer). I don't want to delete all the contents of either the internal sd or tablet micro sd.

I have tried using the default size (it defaulted to 5Gb), and setting it to maximum of 12Gb.

For the removal of doubt I have run md5sum on the downloaded file and it was correct.

It appears to me as though the file system is just not being written correctly at all. I don't have access to another card reader here at the moment. I will check tonight. During the boot it tries to FSCK /dev/sda. It doesn't recognise the file system, tries /dev/sda1 which it also doesn't recognise.

I have tried saving install logs, but can't seem to find them when I get back into android. (I've done a unix "find" from the top level in a terminal as root.)

Any further hints are much appreciated.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jezzirolk:
Re: Native Arch Linux on TF700t - v0.7.9

I was just going to say I installed bluez the program for dealing with Bluetooth and it could not find the Bluetooth adapter. Also the Ubuntu distro also doesn't have working Bluetooth so I would take off that it prolly works. And the possibility of changing to network manager instead of wicd it just handles multi access point networks wierdly.

--Jezzirolk
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
vicdavery,

md5sum on the archive is a good point. But don't try to delete the whole content of internal sdcard, or you'll have a bad day :p

Can you reboot to Android, format the sdcard into the dock and copy some file on it ?

The log is normally stored in /sdcard/ log is named linux-install-0.8.3.zip.log.txt.

jezzirolk,

BT is provided by the same chip who provide Wifi, peripheral itself is seen at boot but non functional, i guess it could need a firmware blob at last and maybe some more investigation.

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] vicdavery:
Hmm, found the log file but its zero length. :(

Not much help there.

I can copy a file onto the card after reformatting in Android.

Sorry to have dominated this thread so much, I'm just keen. :o
[Asus Transformer TF700] maxal:
Can you copy/move files from your internal card to your dock card to free up enough space?
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Re: Native Arch Linux on TF700t - v0.7.9

Just a little update for those waiting. I had a super busy day today and didn't got 2 much done. I got a bunch of the figuration files all set. Open box menu works correctly now. Unfortunately I removed wicd , and installed network manager but it won't detect my networks now. Hopefully I'll get to do a few things today Toma what it looks like it will be the weekend before new version is ready.

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[Asus Transformer TF700] vicdavery:
I think I must have messed something up completely now.

I went back a tried linux-install-0.8.1 and the ubuntu install which was the first one I tried and was successful originally. Now that's not even working.

I've tried with both the dock and the tablet sd cards. I've not tried the main memory I wasn't sure of the implications of that.

Think I might have to give it a break for now and come back to it later. Very frustrating. :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi vicdavery,

If installation take only 1 or 2 minutes to do, there's probably a problem with your sdcard or the reader. You can try to install on an usbkey connected to the dock too (should be seen as sda)

I already got the issue of an empty log, but if you try again to install you should have something into logs.

edit; impact of installing on internal storage = normally no impact, contrary to other options, you don't create a partition to store rootfs. Here you have a loop device stored in mmcblk0p8 (data partition).

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] vicdavery:
Based on guesswork alone, it seems that it might be permission issues. Unable to write to the sdcard, unable to write logs.

I'm going back to scratch and installing CleanROMInheritance (on CM at the moment). Might try reinstalling the recovery stuff see if that makes a difference.

Good idea on the USB key, I'll try that later.
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Version 0.8.0 News

OP is updated and v0.8.0 is up....
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
What about embedding nvidia cardhu drivers?

I'm not an experienced Linux user, but I tried to do something on their own installation of drivers and spent quite a long time and apparently there is no result.

What else surprised that does not work nvgstplayer without libpcre.so.3.

Tried to install different packages that are supposed to be, the library, but also No results ...

I also have started only Xfce session Openbox and another - a blank screen.
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
When I install them, they "work", but break X. I need to get an older Xorg-server package to try... I haven't found older ones yet... I may just compile it myself.

Edit: I also found this in the TF300 Arch thread... http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=39458050&postcount=454 Looks like I was right.

What does this mean?
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
[DEV] Thread is up...

Development thread is up. I added a poll. Github repo is started. Lets keep this thread for user type issues. And the dev thread for improving and making the rootfs more stable.

Thank you!
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
when i select the user archtf700t, in left bottom when i choose openbox, openbox-gnome and another, user logon and desktop load only if i select Xfce session. otherwise nothing happend... only blank blue screen with pointer/cursor.

Thank you! =)
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
That's better... which rootfs are you using. We had that problem before version 0.7.9. Also remember a basic Openbox doesn't have a "desktop". If you right click on the "desktop" you will get the Openbox menu. The blue screen you are seeing is because the wallpaper did not load... That was fixed in v0.7.9.

If you want the bloated version download v0.7.9. I am working on an installer to help install on the base in post 2. This will help with the initial download size.
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
Thank you for your work in this area and of course thanks to the rabbits.

I just like more archlinux than ubuntu, perhaps I too conservative.

Actually I do not enough Android to be attached to the tablet for my working life.

For example a problem with hidden access points wep key contains binary zero. Nor is it possible to enter the key HEX

A week later, test, and if there are problems you accomplish your goal.

Therefore, apart from the mandatory packages for me LibreOffice, ThunderBird, preferably hardware acceleration of multimedia.

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used google translator and mine minor fix ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricardodg:
Terminal?

I must be missing something here! I got your archlinux to load through to X but then there is nothing -- no xterminal to start from on the openbox menu (well, it is there but not installed). How to get in, to start to install stuff?

Thanks for your work on this, I would like to use it

Richard
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
LXterminal doesn't start when you click on the menu item?? I'm looking at the menu.xml file and it definitely points to lxterminal. Try going down the Openbox menu to Applications - Accessories and see if it is in there.
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
ATTN: I haven't left the building...

At the moment I don't have access to my Arch install... I upgraded to the 4.2.1 Stock rom. I'm looking into getting another dual-boot kernel... For the moment I will have to go into recovery, install a dummy 3.4.7 CROMI and then reinstall the linux-installer kernel. I have to leave soon and will try this afternoon.... I will kind of suck to have to do this each time. But until a new kernel comes I will do it for the "team". Btw... 4.2.1 flies on this tablet!
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Do you know if Arch needs any kernel config options that are not enabled in the stock Asus 4.2 kernel? If not, you could use the stock zImage as a base for a dual-booting kernel.
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Good thinking. I don't think so, I'll check when I get back home later. Keep pushing on. Btw building a zimage is not something I've done ...

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[Asus Transformer TF700] ricardodg:
No terminal

Maybe there is something more seriously wrong here. There is no lxterminal listed anywhere I can see -- rxvt, gnome, xfce, konsole, xterm are under terminals but all of them fail with a `failed to execute child process' message -- so either they are missing or there is a direction error. The

only thing that I can get to run is openbox configuration, and I could not work out how to use that to break in!

I will try reinstalling, but nothing seemed to go wrong and as I say it runs and allows me to log in. Perhaps I can log in as root under X and find something there.

Richard
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
me stuck too =) i try to install ThunderBird but it doesn't work =(. at first no libffi.so.5, ok, i made ln -s on libffi.so.6, than it wont libpng14, but in install packages only libpng15. ok, try to BUILDPKG with armv7h arch, and get at the end, fail result.

hm... in archlinuxarm packages only thunderbird 8.0.1 version =(

and that it happend around of install some package...

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don't used translator
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
I never had the problem you are describing ... try checking your download with the md5 and reinstall.
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
Installing:

...3) If you installed /home anywhere but inside the rootfs or create a new user, untar archtf700t-home.tar into your home directory – “tar xfv archtf700t-home.tar”

you done this?

that problem me too at rootfs-archtf700t-0.8.0.tar.lzma, but i don't do untar archtf700t-home.tar into home directory
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricardodg:
A nice suggestion if I had a terminal to work in! I will try downloading again and reinstalling (again).
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
you can do this on android or on PC =)
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricardodg:
Well, it does not seem to be just that. I untarred the hom file but it makes no difference. I wonder whether it is permissions or something.

It remains the case that the only things I can access after logging in are the openbox config, the on-screen keyboard (the actual keyboard works fine) and a couple of other things of no great use. The only key combinations that do anything I can see are the desktop shifters.

I will try to chroot into arch to see if I can get something else to run. I'm pretty sure that the openbox menu under the tf700t user is not being

read.

If anyone can see what I am doing wrong, please comment!

Richard
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Project on hold...

Update April 8, 2013: This project is temporarily on hold. As is the rootfs works well enough on CROMI 3.4.7. I have gotten nowhere towards getting a dual-boot to work on the stock 4.2.1 I have installed (well I got boot loops... :( ). The moment I can either get a bootable kernel to work or someone does, delelopment will continue...

Sorry.
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi A_Creature & ricardodg,

Can you tell me how did you installed ? internal / tab microsd / dock sd / usb key ?

And where did you put /home ? left inside rootfs or in mmcblk0p8 or elsewhere ?

I don't have been able to install 0.8 because i try some tweak on 0.7.9 but i'll do it soon. Anyway, if i can help you, tell me.

As he said workdowg stopped dev for the moment but 0.7.9 work nice and i'm pretty sure 0.8 will too.

We already can do some fun with them. BTW, if you don't already answered, give your point of view on the survey started on dev thread. Thanks !

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricardodg:
Thanks -- I pretty much accepted the defaults, on the internal sdcard with home on the android partition. When I get a chance I will reinstall with the home directory in the rootfs. Adding the home-tar file made no difference to me. I can still run nothing -- which is pretty frustrating since it appears that everything is set up correctly from the (briefly visible) log.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricardodg:
Replying to my own post just to say that reinstalling with home not put in the android partition fixed things and now I have a running arch

linux. Thanks for the suggestions -- it looks pretty good so far [I will have to get used to arch a little, being a debian user.]
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi,

I finally found some time to install 0.8, to sum up : it work

my setup :

CyanogenMod 10.1-20130323-Nightly

Clockworkmod recovery 6.0.1.9

rootfs 0.8

rabits installer 0.8.3

4Gb rootfs size

home inside rootfs (not in mmcblk0p8)

From my point of view it's a better way like this because you leave archtf700t user on rootfs but you don't use it, it's a failsafe user if something goes wrong. For your own user, you make a new loop fs on tab microsd or a new partition. Thus :

You avoid a lot of writes on internal sd

You keep your home even if you update rootfs

You can set luks for your home and keep a real separation with Android.

So 4Gb became really comfy for rootfs, you may reduce it to 3Gb.

One thing if you want to do that, change uid of archtf700t and use the previous one for your user, like this you've access (permission) to files written from Android. But beware to adjust permissions on directory before logout ;)

HTH
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
Please, if you can, describe to me the full process of untar user pack (what, when, where, for what).

Thank you! ;)

Just to save my time and other =)

About help in DEV thread, oh, realy sorry, i'm not experience linux user (but learn very fast), and have job, so i have'nt much time.

But I can test some builds/installs if it not brick my device ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi A_Creature,

I normally dont use it but i'll take a look for this soon.

And for the dev thread, just answer to the survey, that's enough to help dev to find priorities

Let dev and tests for crazy people :p
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi,

So what about "user pack".

what : it's an archive created by workdowg containing all his preset for openbox user interface to have something like what you can see on the screenshot. Wallpaper, Conky (graph and stats on top left), theme and menu and a lot of other thing you'll appreciate from time.

when : after creating a new user (if you want) or if you choose to place /home on mmcblk0p8 (the default choice on installer)

where : at the root of homedir, i'll detail this below.

for what : to restore a ready to use environment for people who don't want to bother them with customizing UI

Howto :

Well, workdowg already explain it in the 1st post but here are command for Linux beginners :

Considering the basic example, you've chosen to create /home on mmcblk0p8.

start Android, download or move tar archive to your pad sdcard root dir, launch a terminal (if you don't already installed it terminal emulator by example) and enter following command :

su

cd /data/archtf700t/

tar xvf /storage/sdcard1/archtf700-home.tar

That's it, reboot on Arch and enjoy.

It work like this, but to be completely clean you should do that once you're logged in archtf700t :

open lxterminal and type :

su (enter root password)

pwd (check you're in /home/archtf700t) then :

chown archtf700t:wheel /home/archtf700t -R

find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;

find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;

For new user it mean you created it so you may already stopped to read this and telling to yourself "this guy bother me".

Hope this match to your wish A_Creature.

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Hi everyone,

Just a little remember :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2222710

Until now, 14 people answered, thanks to them.

Workdowg plan to schedule next improvement from your choice :)

If you've question or request about this poll, feel free to post in the user thread.

Even if Workdowg can progress for the moment because of Android 4.2.1, any help in development (coding, debugging or testing) would be appreciated.

TIA

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Test installer

I have modified rabits installer for Arch, but I can't test it right now... Any one who wants to be a guinea pig please PM me. This is only to solve the /home on anywhere but rootfs problem. No other changes were made.
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Added to OP

Thank you! Added link to this in OP.
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
WOW =) You are really a WishMaster ;)

Thanks!

I will try do it tomorrow on microSD

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I was not attentive =) wonder why i think, that tar unpack on the ext.sdcard... =(
[Asus Transformer TF700] dadgore:
What about the new 4.2.1 rom. Any progress?
[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Hi lugotfl,

You should take a look to the multiboot dev thread

[DEV] Multiboot Linux on Infinity tf700

And also to Hundsbuah dev thread

[KERNEL][OC][STOCK/CROMI] Hundsbuah

This is more related to this issue.

I'm still running Cyanogen Nightly from March 23th and don't plan to update for the moment.

About Arch progress, Workdowg is maybe testing tf700 flying capability (i'm sure it could) with this kernel issue.

So far no new issue has been reported from 0.8 and multiboot installer.

Poll will close tomorrow( thank to the 21 people who answered ), power mgmt is the major request, Kde fan boys don't yet awake to make the deal and ask to have kde in place of Openbox.

From my side this is my main focus too (power mgmt, not Kde).

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
and mine focus too, is full media accelerate on full support nvidia cardhu drivers, cause arch down if open some music and any video with x264 codec, other codecs don't show anything =)
[Asus Transformer TF700] dadgore:
Thank you for your elaborate response. My only comment is to those who want KDE is it is real resource hungry. Also it has a lot of dependencies.

Thank You!

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[Asus Transformer TF700] roscop2k:
Lugotfl,

Well, it's Friday and it's trollday here.

So it was just a joke :o

No offense for kde users ;)

Regards
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
From the dev thread...

The masses have had their say (all 21 of them...lol)

Power management it is then... I will have to do some recovery switching this week and see if I can get the pad to:

1) use less power...

2) scale the cpu's (easy really)

3) stop display from sleeping after standing by (SOD - Sleep of Death)

4) get suspend to work (this will be the hardest and may never be workable!)

I'm positive getting the display to go into stand by is going to be THE biggest power saver at the moment.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jezzirolk:
i guess my question is your first post makes this sound as if it has stalled but i am more curious are you still developing for what you can get the kernel to boot on or is it halted until you can boot on 4.2.1?
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
It is going to be very slow going for me to develop more until a 4.2.1 kernel comes. I have to find the extra time to swap out installs.... I have some scripts and ideas ready, I just need to try them. By the looks of it this week nothing is going to get done, the weekend may bring some time....

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T - X-CROMi 4.3b5
[Asus Transformer TF700] jplee3:
How did you reinstall and get home not to be in the android partition? I unchecked the option where it says to do that, I think, but when I load things up I see what you were seeing before (no lxterminal, and most other apps missing from broken menu links). I can't figure out what to do. Do I need to reinstall Archlinux on my MicroSD card completely, rather than the internal SD?
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
It has been a while... still waiting for [MENTION=4972873]rabits[/MENTION] to figure out the multiboot on the new bootloader/kernel. Until then, Arch had some big changes so this weekend I will restore one of my old CROMi setups and put up an updated basic and openbox versions for those still able to use this....
[Asus Transformer TF700] A_Creature:
don't stop! ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] jplee3:
ughh, i'm such a dummy. the whole time i was logging in as root which would explain why i wasn't seeing everything! logged in as archlinux and now all the stuff appears as expected.

been playing around a bit and it's pretty cool. although, i've been finding it hard to install many packages (using 'packer -S') - i tried installing iceweasel but it says "this does not look like a tar archive" and fails. The Chromium browser included seems to work initially but shortly crashes with the dreaded "Aw Snap!" errors...
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
Make sure to use "pacman -Syy" to update your package list... I am almost positive if you try to do full system upgrade though you may run into some issues I have on my desktop that may leave it unusable. You can certianly try, but be prepared to reinstall...

To all: I ran into a snag with reflashing my current setup(restore failed). I am still determined to work on this still this weekend. First i will figure out the best upgrade path for my old rootfs. Also get both the openbox and basic version up to date.

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700t - CROMi-X 4.6.5 ODEX