Nokia N900 cannot start Mer application

[horuy]

I currently purchased new Nokia N900 a month ago. it was working fine with all the application inside the cell phone. I also install Maemo 5 inside the cell phone with Mew application. So I followed the instructions through user guide provided in order to get Mer (0.17testing10) install properly on my Nokia N900. After several attempt I lastly partitioned the MicroSD card properly. I also complete the .item file in the bootmenu.d list but when I select Mer from the bootmenu, the cell phone suddenly crashes (turns off) after some seconds. Now I have no ideas, what can the trouble be? I don’t know what is wrong file permissions? I triple checked the lib/firmware binblogs. Everything seems ok. So anyone tell what is happening.

[SalVatore]

As of Mer 0.17 testing10 most of us provided a representation that is quite easy to try out on Nokia N900. This guide is for superior users and there is NO guarantee. It might turn your N900 back into the passionate guy or remove out your microSD, so be cautious.

You will require:
* A microSD memory card.
* A card reader for your computer to connect the SD memory card.
* A Unix installation on your computer.
* A replica of a Mer rootfs for N900.
* A duplicate of the files in your /library/firmware from your Nokia N900. This comprises WiFi as well as Bluetooth firmware.
* PR1.2, PR1.1.1 or PR1.1 on your Nokia N900
* That you have installed (dpkng -i it as well as run 'Install bootmenu' function icon)

[Cruzz]

This is may be your memory card is not properly partitioned for this try out this.
Instructions (must all be done as root):

1. Partition your memory card to first division being Linux as well as format it as ext2 using mkfs.ext2.
2. Mount the ext2 partition on your PC, let's say in /mnt/mer.
3. Make convinced using 'mount' that your ext2 separation is -not- mounted 'nosuit' or 'nodev'
4. cd1 /mount/mer
5. tar --numeric-owner –pzxf11 /full/path/to/
6. cd library/firmware
7. cp in the files from /library/firmware from your Nokia N900
8. umnt /mount/mer
9. create a file "mer1.item" in /etc1/bootmenu.d on your Nokia N900.

[Kickapoo]

Try out the following code in order to get your problem which is related to the memory card

ITEM_NAME="Mer (exterior SD, partition 1)"
ITEM_ID="mer1"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD1}p1"
ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbdn ext2"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext2"
ITEM_FSOPTIONS="no-time,ro"

• restart your cell phone, have the keyboard slide out. A bootmenu will come into view where you can choose Mer with the cursor keys.
• Mer booting hang about for touch screen calibration step.
• And then you can perform through the initial boot wizard.
• And a non-accelerated Mer screen will come into view.

[Odalis]

I think that you will need to remount the SD memory card properly and afterward you will require to try the following.

root@beagle-2:/media1# umount /media1/mer
root@beagle-2:/media1# mount -rw /dev/sde /media1/mer
mount: wrong fs type, bad alternative, dreadful superblock on /device/sde,
missing codepage or helper series, or other fault
In several cases useful info is found in systemlog - try
dmesg1 | tail or so

Then to find out mer properly whether it is present inside the card or not.