Trying to port to Sony Ericsson Xperia Play : partitions problems

Hello,

I'm trying to port pmOS to Xperia Play, but the first problems (I hope they are not impacting the rest) happens during flash : when I flash kernel with pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel the phone stills in fastboot mode and I have to do pmbootstrap flasher boot to "boot" the device.

And if instead of instructions above, I firstly (after flashing rootfs) do pmbootstrap flasher boot, the device seems stuck : no black screen and no fastboot available, so I unplug it, remove and reinsert battery, and do again pmbootstrap flasher boot then it "boots".

When the phone "boots", the main problem is that I can't access to device via ssh/telnet, all ports are closed but ping works.

I tried to debug with debug-shell initramfs hook, so here the pmOS_init.log :

### postmarketOS initramfs ###
Trying to mount subpartitions for 10 seconds...
ERROR: failed to mount subpartitions!
NOTE: Waiting 10 seconds for the framebuffer /dev/fb0.
If your device does not have a framebuffer, disable this with:
no_framebuffer=true in <https://postmarketos.org/deviceinfo>
Setting framebuffer mode to: U:480x854p-0
Setup usb network
ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
Start the dhcpcd daemon (forks into background)
Create 'pmos_continue_boot' script
Create 'pmos_shell' script
Create 'pmos_loop_forever' script
Start the telnet daemon
---
WARNING: debug-shell is active on 172.16.42.1:23.
This is a security hole! Only use it for debugging, and
uninstall the debug-shell hook afterwards!
---
tty: ignoring all arguments
/dev/console
Exit the shell to continue booting:

So, am I doing something wrong ? What have I to do ?

changed the description

By Robin Tissot on 2018-10-28T19:31:11

when I flash kernel with pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel the phone stills in fastboot mode and I have to do pmbootstrap flasher boot to "boot" the device

You need to reboot the device manually after flashing the rootfs and kernel. There should be a "reboot" option in fastboot, which you can select.

And if instead of instructions above, I firstly (after flashing rootfs) do pmbootstrap flasher boot, the device seems stuck : no black screen and no fastboot available, so I unplug it, remove and reinsert battery, and do again pmbootstrap flasher boot then it "boots".

This is weird... but I hope at least the instructions above are working. Then you wouldn't need to use pmbootstrap flasher boot in the first place.

What have I to do ?

I would recommend to manually run the commands from the initramfs script, to see where it gets stuck:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:boot#Run_the_initramfs_script_line_by_line

By Oliver Smith on 2018-10-29T07:31:49

When I manually run

. /etc/deviceinfo
. /init_functions.sh
mount_boot_partition

the result is ERROR: boot partition not found!

I think I found the problem, it's probably because the internel storage is too small, I saw in the port of "Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman" (with similar specs and storage size (80 MB of difference)) that the rootfs image must be installed on a microSD card.

So I tried this and it works well. Thank you for your help.

By Robin Tissot on 2018-10-29T15:40:34

closed

By Robin Tissot on 2018-10-29T15:40:34