Android not appearing in Multiboot menu

[Disha N]

I am currently using Nokia N900. It’s a cool phone. I have installed Maemo and Android on the phone of mine. Well it worked great for two days. Now I don’t know due to some reason I am not getting Android option in multiboot menu. I am getting option for Maemo only. Can anyone tell me how can I fix this problem? Any suggestion to solve the problem will be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

[Cruzz]

I am not getting any idea why this is happening on your situation. Do you getting any error message on the screen? if you getting thing like then simply post here. I suspect that this problem is seems to happing due to improper installation of the installer on the device. You should reinstall the installer and try to install again. I am hoping that it will help you to solve the problem of yours.

[Odalis]

I have done following method on my Nokia N900 and it really worked for me.

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install bzip2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nitdroid-installer: Depends: multiboot (>= 0.2.10) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: multiboot-kernel-maemo (>= 0.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Nokia-N900:~# apt-get -f install   
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bzip2 multiboot multiboot-kernel-maemo
Suggested packages:
  multiboot-kernel-power
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bzip2 multiboot multiboot-kernel-maemo
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1811kB of archives.
After this operation, 2187kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Selecting previously deselected package multiboot.
(Reading database ... 25583 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking multiboot (from .../multiboot_0.2.10-1_armel.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package multiboot-kernel-maemo.
Unpacking multiboot-kernel-maemo (from .../multiboot-kernel-maemo_0.3-1_armel.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package bzip2.
Unpacking bzip2 (from .../bzip2_1%3a1.0.5-3+0m5_armel.deb) ...
Setting up multiboot (0.2.10-1) ...
Setting up multiboot-kernel-maemo (0.3-1) ...
Setting up bzip2 (1:1.0.5-3+0m5) ...
Setting up nitdroid-installer (0.2.7) ...
Nokia-N900:~# nitdroid-installer

**********************************************************
*                                                        *
* This installer will automatically download and install *
*      NITDroid, an Android port to Nokia N900.          *
*                                                        *
*                       WARNING!                         *
*    THIS PROGRAM WILL INSTALL APPS ONTO YOUR DEVICE     *
*     AND FORMAT YOUR MICROSD WITHOUT ANY WARNINGS.      *
*   THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THIS WILL RENDER YOUR    *
*     DEVICE UNUSABLE, REQUIRING FULL MAEMO REFLASH.     *
*                                                        *
*      PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE PROCEEDING         *
*                                                        *
*                 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED                   *
*                                                        *
**********************************************************

Type 'YES' if you accept the terms and take the risk >YES

Good! Here we go.

Unmounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done

Going to download the installation files. This will take a rather long time!

Downloading nitdroid.manifest ...done
Uninstalling any incompatible software ...done
Creating partitions ...done

/dev/mmcblk1p1          0+  58331   58332-   1866623+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk1p2      58332  120831   62500    2000000   83  Linux
/dev/mmcblk1p3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/mmcblk1p4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p1 (vfat) ...done
Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p2 (ext3) ...done
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done
Extracting NITDroid-N900-the-flying-world.tbz2 ...done
Extracting nitdroid-0.0.6-patch-3.tar.bz2 ...done
Extracting wifi-patch-1.tbz2 ...done
Extracting wifi-patch-2.tbz2 ...done
Extracting lcd-density-240.tbz2 ...done
Extracting oc-profile-500-700.tar.bz2 ...done
Installing nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb ...done
Unmounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done

**********************************************************
                   _____   ___   ___   ___      ___
      |\   ||  /| /____/  |   \ |   \ |   \ /| |   \ 
      | \  ||  ||   |     |   | |___/ |   | || |   |
      || \ ||  ||   ||    ||  | ||\\  ||  | || ||  |
      ||  \||  ||   ||    ||__/ || \\ ||__| || ||__/

**********************************************************
*                                                        *
*           has been succesfully installed!              *
*                                                        *
*    You may now reboot the device with keyboard open    *
*              to boot into NITDroid.                    *
*                                                        *
**********************************************************

Nokia-N900:~#

Finally I have used the following command on the terminal.

apt-get -f install

Well this command forcefully installs the dependencies which are required for NITroid installer

[Abenaki]

I have used the above mentioned instruction and successfully installed NITroid on the phone of mine. I am getting to many error messages on the phone which stated as applications in nitdroid stopped working and they need to be terminated. I have terminated following applications which are keyboard, Google apps and initial wizard. Any idea to fix the problem will be highly appreciated.

[Iroquois]

You can use the following steps if you are having an issue while installing NITDroid on Sandisk SD card.

• You have to download files which are required to installation of NITDroid.
• Now you have to install new Kernel on your phone by using the following command.

dpkg -i multiboot-kernel-maemo-20103103+0m5_final1_armel.deb

• Now restart your device and choose the lastly installed kernel from the multiboot menu.
• Now you should try to install NITDroid on your phone.