[Gen8 Android Development] jbradshw:
Archos 101/8GB

So I decided to plunge in and do this. I got the 0.2 version of your files. I partitioned at 16GB card just like you had it, all ext4:

1 -0.5

2 - 1GB

3 - rest

I got the zimage and initrc copied over through the developer console, put the SD card in the tablet, booted the developer edition and then moved the files over to the data.new partition. Put the card back in the PC and edited the init.rc to this:

# Comment this

# mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data noatime nosuid

# Uncomment this

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk2p2 /data noatime

mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data.old noatime nosuid

Put the card back in the tablet, booted up to developer edition and it booted just fine. However I noticed the remaining portion of the SDcard (14.5GB) isn't showing up (or at least I didn't see it under Settings/Storage) as I had read it that it would be automounted. So I decided to add the line you mentioned so now init.rc looks like this:

# Comment this

# mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data noatime nosuid

# Uncomment this

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk2p2 /data noatime

mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data.old noatime nosuid

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk2p5 /mnt/sdcard2 noatime nosuid

Now the tablet is going haywire. It boots up and I saw the home page GUI and it's hard frozen. I do a force reboot and it never gets to the GUI now. So I decided to comment out that last line again going back to this again:

# Comment this

# mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data noatime nosuid

# Uncomment this

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk2p2 /data noatime

mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data.old noatime nosuid

# mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk2p5 /mnt/sdcard2 noatime nosuid

It boots back up to the GUI but now I'm getting numerous FCs from apps trying to launch. The Archos wizard starts on its own but there's FC's going on in the background. Once I got the wizard finished, LauncherPro is in an endless FC loop and I'm not sure where to go from here to get this working/fix this. I can't do anything because of that FC loop. I can't even get to the place to uninstall that app to try and get around it.

Update:

OK I decided to restart from step 1. I got all the way finished with step 3 up til the part where you edit the init.rc file and set it to this:

# Comment this

# mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data noatime nosuid

# Uncomment this

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk2p2 /data noatime

mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /data.old noatime nosuid

Can you tell me what I need to do to get the rest of the sdcard to show up? Or maybe it is and I just don't know where to see it at.

Update:

Actually I think I found it under /sdcard2 so that might be it.

Though I found another issue - I originally had launcherpro as my launcher. I uninstalled that to try something different, and now I have no launcher. I get a blank home screen with the buttons on the side. The buttons do nothing and I can't get to any other screen - settings, market, uninstall - nothing. Home key blanks the screen completely for about 3-5 seconds and just returns to the blank home screen. Any ideas on how to fix this? Or do I need to go back to step 1 again? :)

Update:

OK my tablet got completely hosed up. I booted back to regular Archos kernal and I couldn't do anything. Home page looked normal but I couldn't swipe the screen, launch any apps that were on the home page, or go to any subscreens. Having to go back to factory on the normal kernel. :(

Yet another update:

Ok so I did factory reset on the archos kernel (.071) and completed all of steps 1 and 2 (even repartitioned/reformatted the SD card) and even sent the zimage/initramfs over and I'm still booting to a blank home screen. Only working option at this point is the factory image. I'm stumped at this point.