Ubuntu Nexus 7

[fisch246]

I used the Nexus 7 installer app, and everything worked perfectly, until the splash screen. Showed the Ubuntu logo, then black. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I'm going to try and do it again, and see if it'll work, however I saw posts of people having this same issue and doing it over and over again with the same issue. Any ideas?

[fisch246]

trying to do it manually right now to make sure I'm using the latest image. I'll let you know if that fixes it. If I set to solved, assume that was the solution.

[rtalcott]

Good Luck...I am VERY interested in hearing how it runs on your Nexus....not sure I am ready to install Ubuntu on mine yet but I am definitely curious to hear how you like it.
rt

[fisch246]

No luck, running md5 checks on both files, then I'll try again. I guess...

[fisch246]

Well there are 2 other images I suppose I could try, but the current is completely broken. md5 checks, which means, I repeat, it's broken. I'll try the other 2, and let everyone know which is the current working model. I'll start with the earliest model. Keep in mind I am using the 13.04 daily-preinstalled images.

[fisch246]

correction, there's 2 images total. the current is also the latest, so i'm using the other image.

[fisch246]

I currently get this as a warning

df: warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems: No such file or directory

maybe this is the problem?

[fisch246]

Filing bug report for ubuntu-nexus7 on Launchpad

EDIT: link to bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/1126836

[lprofil]

Hey fisch246,

i had the same problem and it is also known on launchpad. By using an old image i could fix it.
The image is from January the 30th 2013. I found it through a another post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2011403

Since the download speed of that source is damn slow and you
shouldn't bother with that and take the laste working image which was
uploaded by Oliver today (2013-03-18) to this location..

After doing a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

you will have an up to date system which will boot fine.

For those of you who would like to keep the Android system and
have a DualBoot oder MultiBoot system: hold on until i will write a How to on that soon.

/lprofil

ps: big thanks and my tribute to Vojtěch Boček alias Tasssadar
Make a donation to him if you like his Multibootstuff


Update: Since Ubuntu-Desktop seems to be unusable for me on the Nexus 7 due to different reasons
i am looking forward to the release of Ubuntu-Tablet which should be released on the 25. this month
according to this information (bottom left).