Hacking RELEASE Painless Linux - it's Linux, but painless (Windows, Mac OS, Linux & Android)

[Deleted User]

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[mariogamer]

Running Linux on your Switch is already voiding the warranty.

Yeah forgot that one .

 

[Mark McDonut]

I don't even have a switch yet but you're amazing for sharing this!

 

[Shadow LAG]

Ok. But will it actually void the warranty?

Apparently, no.

 

[Deleted User]

Cool

 

[darkten]

FYI - this does not work on Mac OS X, as shofel2.py is written with a linux dependency (/dev/self/fd) that doesn't exist on mac os x.

Switching this in the code to /dev/fd (more or less equivalent) does allow the Switch in RCM to be detected, and it looks like to loads the first pat, but craps out due to a bad file descriptor somewhere that I have not taken the time to hunt down.

I don't think this was actually *tested* on Mac OS X

 

[Sonicbrawler]

hm. switch wont actually boot into linux anymore. after the normal boot up stuff, it just stays all black.

 

[Shadow LAG]

hm. switch wont actually boot into linux anymore. after the normal boot up stuff, it just stays all black.

Odd, this is the same behavior I was getting when building Linux a while back. Had to re-format, load Linux image, and after first boot, payload would say it went through but display did nothing. Would have to repeat above steps again. Thought it was just me.

 

[Sonicbrawler]

Odd, this is the same behavior I was getting when building Linux a while back. Had to re-format, load Linux image, and after first boot, payload would say it went through but display did nothing. Would have to repeat above steps again. Thought it was just me.

i'll reformat, see if that fixes things. it was working fine for me a few hours ago, but now it isn't.

EDIT: no luck. not sure whats going on. text moves too fast on screen but i do see a lot of "Failed" text popping up.

 

[Shadow LAG]

i'll reformat, see if that fixes things. it was working fine for me a few hours ago, but now it isn't.

EDIT: no luck. not sure whats going on. text moves too fast on screen but i do see a lot of "Failed" text popping up.

Ah so atleast you are seeing the kernel screen, I thought you were getting black screen totally even though the payload deploys.

 

[ShonenJump]

its getting easier almost everyday! great job!

 

[kevandkkim]

works great for me thanks!!!! typed this on it with a bluetooth keyboard

 

[H1B1Esquire]

Okay, it's official, you're the man.

 

[re.lax]

Thanks, will give it a try tomorrow.

 

[_______]

FYI - this does not work on Mac OS X, as shofel2.py is written with a linux dependency (/dev/self/fd) that doesn't exist on mac os x.

Switching this in the code to /dev/fd (more or less equivalent) does allow the Switch in RCM to be detected, and it looks like to loads the first pat, but craps out due to a bad file descriptor somewhere that I have not taken the time to hunt down.

I don't think this was actually *tested* on Mac OS X

Can confirm that it does not work on macOS, same error as you.

 

[x0x0]

can you provide rootfs tar to build via linux? I do not want to lose the partition for HBL so I'd rather do it myself.

 

[linuxares]

• Burn it on your SD card using Etcher or dd

For people with Windows, you should able able to use Win32Imager to "burn" the image to a SD.

 

[natinusala]

I'm more feared by the LCD damage thing.
Isn't that only a thing that happened to f0f once while they were working things out on how to get everything running?
Or are there more user reports of damaged displays with Switch Linux?

One Reddit user reported artifacts on their screen after using Linux for a long time. It's temporary though, but we never know.

Yeah, if the img could be uploaded to google drive or dropbox, that would be nice.

@kevandkkim uploaded it to Google Drive, the link is in the README

Running Linux on your Switch is already voiding the warranty.

Does it really ?

FYI - this does not work on Mac OS X, as shofel2.py is written with a linux dependency (/dev/self/fd) that doesn't exist on mac os x.

Switching this in the code to /dev/fd (more or less equivalent) does allow the Switch in RCM to be detected, and it looks like to loads the first pat, but craps out due to a bad file descriptor somewhere that I have not taken the time to hunt down.

I don't think this was actually *tested* on Mac OS X

It's been reported that on Mac OS everything worked but usb_imx. I removed usb_imx so I thought it would work. Anyway, we may have a fusée gelée payload to boot Linux soon-ish, so Mac users will just have to use that instead.

can you provide rootfs tar to build via linux? I do not want to lose the partition for HBL so I'd rather do it myself.

You can download the IMG file and mount it to a loopback device

 

[TheSynthax]

Is the RAM at full speed?

 

[natinusala]

Is the RAM at full speed?

It should be