Monday, May 11, 2009

Android running on the BeagleBoard





This is a video of the Android demo running on the BeagleBoard. I myself have not used Android, but from this video, I can recommend it to users of all types, as it looks user-friendly and efficient for all sorts of task. Also, in the last 15 to 20 seconds, the camera shows the BeagleBoard setup, so if you are new to the BeagleBoared and are confused on how to get it set up, I think that you will find this last part of the video to be extremely helpful.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Can you provide help with porting android to the beagle board. I am stuck with the following error message
Failed to execute /init. Attempting defaults...
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

But I am passing the init=/init in my boot arguments.

Unknown said...

I don't have my SD card with me but this is what I copied to partition2 (ext2) of my SD card.

it@opensuse-vm:/media/disk/Android_RFS> ls -l
total 156
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-05-04 19:53 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 2009-05-04 22:29 default.prop
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-05-24 10:10 dev
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 106580 2009-05-04 20:46 init
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1754 2009-05-03 15:41 init.goldfish.rc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8686 2009-05-03 15:41 init.rc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-05-04 19:53 proc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-05-04 22:29 sbin
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-05-04 19:53 sys
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2009-05-24 10:01 system
it@opensuse-vm:/media/disk/Android_RFS> file init
init: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
it@opensuse-vm:/media/disk/Android_RFS>