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The openAOS builds now come with a shiny boot menu - well it's not that shiny, more an C64 look, but it supports touchscreen input!


More info here and here.

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This looks great thanx.!!

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Hey, ive installed the dual boot menu, but when i try to access the openaos i just get a black screen, any ideas to what may be causing this ? the avos works fine.

links not working 'error getting database connection' ?

The server was experiencing difficulties yesterday.
It's back to normal since 2010-02-03T21:00:00+00:00.

If ├àngstr├Âm doesn't boot you should check if you properly unpacked the rootfs.img into the FAT32 partition.

Thanks for the multiboot. This works great. Also the pre-built images. The Archos helper works a treat.

Finally got it working properly thanks for the multiboot, i must hand it to the archos community you guys are doing what archos should have done from the beginning,

I can't seem to get the Avos menu to boot, any help would be appriciated.

P.s OpenAos boots fine though

First of all great work!!!
I am planning to install this. But I am not sure which SDE to use.

1)The original one by Archos or the Patched one by archos.g3nius.org?

2)What are the advantages/disadvantages of using the Patched SDE?

3)Say I use the Patched SDE will I be able to put any rootfs.cramfs.secure file in the Original Archos OS, and will that work? Eg: using the GF hack and the SDE - dual boot?

4)Will I lose the ability to play protected DRM files incase I install the Patched SDE and do a dual boot?

Thanks for all your work..!!

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Nevermind, I just followed the multi boot very closeley and now I have both, I would still like to know how to install kevins build as when I replace my rootfs with it Angstrom won't boot

Did you unpack the image properly? If it still says rootfs.img.gz you didn't.

We are currently adding functionality that will automagically gunzip an image if it finds an whatever.img.gz (when "whatever" was the selected boot entry).
But right now the user has to do it.

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thanks I did gunzip it but for some reason it just wouldn't boot it, it does now but Im not sure what I did

Subject: Archos API for the AMC


So is it possible for us IMT users to use the hardware accelerator in angstrom?

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ok so I had gf hack with patched firmware 1.6.54 and then followed the guide for this everything went right or so i thought. It gets to the boot screen and linux works but when i click on archos it just goes to a blank screen. what have i done wrong and how can i fix it

no thread hijacking please! stick to the rules and you'll receive answers.

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Hard to tell. My best guess at the moment is that something went wrong with the hidden partition.
You did put in the right offset and have a huge image file on your PC?

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Oops sorry

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Ok I think I know what the problem is, when installing the GF Hack tutorial it says to copy the rootfs.cramfs.secure file into /media/disk. And inside of the menu.lst file you needed to be put into the root of our player says for the Archos firmware to go and look at the rootfs.cramfs.secure
which is the file i've changed. Well before I figured this out I reformated my device hoping it would work with a simple reinstall normal firmware then go for the multiboot again. But it didn't work so I think I need the original rootfs.cramfs.secure file for the newest firmware 1.7.11 then move that over to /media/disk
so if anyone has this rootfs.cramfs.secure file for 1.7.11 or know where i can find it please let me know
thanks

Ok, the .aos update file is complete. But the bad news is that my A5 gave up the ghost, so I am unable to test it. I need a brave soul to try it out and make sure everything works. Please PM me if you can help us out with this.

Guys just use the patched SDE from archos.g3nius.org, I have finally got thr dual boot working, not lost my DRM keys, and have the patched AVOS 1.7.11 with the GF hack and Angstrom using Kevin's latest files. I still have the ability to play DRM content I guess and no HDD lock checks in place.
Me talking about the Archos 5 IMT

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