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LGB/Original Droid (Motorola) blues

bakpinar: LOVE THIS APP! if you'd be willing to help me troubleshoot my problems using this on a motorola OG Droid i'd be eternally grateful.

background: after some fiddling around i got it to work with CM7(win00 8-8) and raidzero's 1200 kernal. in that setup i did not need to add the ext2.ko module. starting Link2SD by itself did not work; it was unable to write a script and mount the ext2 partition no matter which option i tried (ext2,3,4 or fat32) but when i put the 99complete file from "The Ultimate Apps2sd Thread" in droidforums.net in my etc/init.d folder and rebooted it immediately recognized the sd-ext partion and worked perfectly, no issues whatsoever. (sorry, i'm too new here to post a link, but it's a thread in the cyanogenmod forum there which is promoting your app as the best SD solution)

Problem is, I really prefer LiquidGingerbread, mainly because it is (for my droid, anyway) MUCH smoother and hiccup free than CM7 (this one issue notwithstanding). boots twice as fast, loads apps much faster, generally a more polished experience.

LGB, if you don't know, is optimized and tweaked but under the surface based on CM nightlies, and i'm runnning the exact same Raidzero kernal, so one would THINK that it would work the same way, but no dice.

I have tried:

running Link2SD with no changes to the ROM

manually adding the 99complete script referenced above

manually adding the 05mountsd and 20userinit scripts present in my copy of CM7but not in LGB

Adding the ext2.ko module to system/lib/modules and calling it from the 04insertmd script (even though it was not needed in CM7, just going through the process of elimination)

In all of the above situations, result is as follows:

Link2SD starts, displays the "loading applications" box, then gives me the "Select file system of your SD card's second partion" menu.

Selecting ext2 results in "Mount script error Mount script cannot be created.m mount: Stale NFS file handle"

Selecting ext3 results in the same error with a different detail "mount: Invalid argument"

Selecting ext4 gives the same result as ext2

Selecting Fat16/32 gives an apparant success message "Restart your phone script created..."

After reboot, i now have the 11link2SD script in /etc/init.d and

Link2SD completes loading as if it has been successful, giving no popup message. It settles on the ready to use screen, appearing to work. (up to this point, it's acting just like the successful installation on CM7). I can select an app, link it to the sd-ext, and all indications are that it's successful. the app shows up on the Link2SD app page as being linked, and works (can be started from the drawer or a shortcut) during that session. HOWEVER, when i look at the "storage info" section of Link2Sd, it shows the SD Card 2nd Part as "Not Mounted", and upon a reboot the app is gone. :confused:

Lots of googling led to a samsung forum with a different script, so even though it was a different species, I tried the 06link2sd script from samdroid.net (Thread: Alternative to App2SD - Link2SD) with the same result as selecting fat16/32 above. Looks like it works, but linking sends the app to the twilight zone, Link2SD gives no errors but reports "Not Mounted" for SD Card 2nd Part. lol the first time i did this i thought i had success so i moved all the apps i intended to. after reboot; my 5 pages of apps in the drawer were only one and a half screens. :eek:

I reformatted my SD card about a month ago, then partioned my it with ClockworkMod, and have verified with MiniTool Partition Wizard that sd-ext still exists. As of right now, MiniTool reports 14.33GB FAT32, 488.28 MB Ext2, and 30.08MB Linux Swap, in that order, all Type Primary. And as I mentioned, this card/phone combo works perfectly in CM7, which i can restore via Clockwork complete with the apps on the sd-ext partition.

If you can help me, i'll be more than glad to give you the output of any terminal command that could help you troubleshoot. I'm not a linux guru by any means though i'm not lost behind the keyboard either, but i've tried everything i can think of. Very frustrating to get it working so well on CM7 and be totally stymied with LGB. :(