As the title says, here's the video; I'll do a write up later since it's a long process.



This is not possible in windows 10 due to the GPT Hybrid MBR trickery used, the android image already does this when it writes the partition tables and etc.

Don't do this in windows nor attempt it, it's not going to happen unless there's something you can use to mess with partitions like I did, L4T-Ubuntu also won't work due to the partition stuff and etc, I'm currently making something to allow this without any complications, please be patient!

Watch the entire video and you'll understand more about this, if you make simple errors from not watching the video I will simply tell you to properly watch again and listen!
TOOL ETA: Don't ask, it's a complicated tool that needs a lot of maths, safety features and etc
TOOL SO FAR:

Tool functions: Android, Custom Android user data, 8GB Android install, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Swap, EmuMMC and Lakka dynamic setup.
Planned functions: Multi EmuMMC setup, EmuMMC Backup & restore(including Nintendo folder) + More unique management stuff!

UPDATE: I'm currently setting aside the tool until I finish making & releasing my new modchip

 

[tabzer]

ah yes i remember in intial version boot.scr were located in sd root (hos_data in this case) thanks now i understand
btw do you think its theoretically possible to put ubuntu into an bootable image files on hos_data instead of an partition (like lakka)?

This is confusing to me. What do you mean?

 

[jan2705]

This is confusing to me. What do you mean?

sorry,
i mean that lakka does not need an own partition and if it would be possible to compile ubuntu the same way?

 

[tabzer]

sorry,
i mean that lakka does not need an own partition and if it would be possible to compile ubuntu the same way?

"Linux relies on a number of filesystem features that simply are not supported by FAT or NTFS -- Unix-style ownership and permissions, symbolic links, etc. Thus, Linux can't be installed to either FAT or NTFS. (It used to be possible to do this using a FAT driver that adds those features, but it was removed from the kernel years ago because nobody was maintaining it.)"

source: https://superuser.com/questions/782849/can-ubuntu-linux-be-installed-on-fat32-or-ntfs

 

[Andalitez]

I'll be watching the guide soon.
I just want to know,will this allow me to use Android + have a FAT32 partition avail for HOS? I use the file based SX OS emunand which is 5GB in size, so all i actually need is for that to boot correctly
Perhaps I can leave out the EmuMMC parts?

TL ; DR i would like my SD like this = [Android Stuff here] + [FAT32 accessible by HOS here because i have 5GB file based emunand] is that possible?

 

[tabzer]

Currently we do not have an emunand solution. This setup relies on emummc.

 

[lordelan]

Currently we do not have an emunand solution. This setup relies on emummc.

Basically emuNAND and emuMMC are the same things.
What you meant is: Currently it's working for m4xw's implementation while it does not for SX OS's one.

 

[tabzer]

Basically emuNAND and emuMMC are the same things.
What you meant is: Currently it's working for m4xw's implementation while it does not for SX OS's one.

Those are the names that the developers chose for their respective implementations. I wasn't trying to be basic.

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Andalitez already demonstrated understanding that emummc and emunand are different.

 

[Andalitez]

I see, thanks for the feedback. Will wait and see what comes up in future

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Basically emuNAND and emuMMC are the same things.
What you meant is: Currently it's working for m4xw's implementation while it does not for SX OS's one.

Mind doing a test for me? , create a SX OS EmuNand and find the exact sector it starts at; not the hex offset for it, also if you want to help me do some testing on this stuff; PM me.

 

[jan2705]

"Linux relies on a number of filesystem features that simply are not supported by FAT or NTFS -- Unix-style ownership and permissions, symbolic links, etc. Thus, Linux can't be installed to either FAT or NTFS. (It used to be possible to do this using a FAT driver that adds those features, but it was removed from the kernel years ago because nobody was maintaining it.)"

source: https://superuser.com/questions/782849/can-ubuntu-linux-be-installed-on-fat32-or-ntfs

Yes i know but lakka is Linux too :o

 

[tman708]

Mind doing a test for me? , create a SX OS EmuNand and find the exact sector it starts at; not the hex offset for it, also if you want to help me do some testing on this stuff; PM me.

I might be able to help with testing for this also if you need it. Im very new with partitioning and stuff though so you'd have to walk me through a bit but if you need extra help just let me know!!

 

[SkyDX]

Thanks for the tutorial! Just to clarify, if I follow this and adjust where needed I can have a single 128gb microSD with 64gb for Android and 64gb FAT32 for my normal, untouched Switch OS?

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Thanks for the tutorial! Just to clarify, if I follow this and adjust where needed I can have a single 128gb microSD with 64gb for Android and 64gb FAT32 for my normal, untouched Switch OS?

Doesn't work like so, a 128GB MicroSD will have less than 120GB(118GB or so), android userdata needs to be set right but you can set your FAT32 to 64GB and then write the android stuff, expanding the user data to the remainder

 

[SkyDX]

Doesn't work like so, a 128GB MicroSD will have less than 120GB(118GB or so), android userdata needs to be set right but you can set your FAT32 to 64GB and then write the android stuff, expanding the user data to the remainder

Yeah I should have worded that differently, I know space doesn't work like that, what I meant was "Can I use half of the SD-card for Android and the other half for Horizon?" But so I take it it works! I'm not sure if I'll do it yet because while I watched 20 minutes of your tutorial I'm sure I could get it working but all the calculations went a bit over my head and I would have to setup a Linux VM again first which is a bit tedious with USB pass-through and all that

 

[tabzer]

Getting peazip working and extracting the img files was the most difficult part for me.

 

[Cyan]

peazip ? I used 7zip
I had to update my 7zip because it was too old, but now it's working.

 

[tabzer]

peazip ? I used 7zip
I had to update my 7zip because it was too old, but now it's working.

LOL. I was smart enough to extract "android-16gb.img" with 7zip, but somehow concluded that I couldn't go the extra step. I wasted a lot of time.

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Yeah I should have worded that differently, I know space doesn't work like that, what I meant was "Can I use half of the SD-card for Android and the other half for Horizon?" But so I take it it works! I'm not sure if I'll do it yet because while I watched 20 minutes of your tutorial I'm sure I could get it working but all the calculations went a bit over my head and I would have to setup a Linux VM again first which is a bit tedious with USB pass-through and all that

I'm nearly done with the tool so once it's finished you don't really need to make any calculations.

 

[stoffer666]

I'm nearly done with the tool so once it's finished you don't really need to make any calculations.

So cool will it work on windows or is it for linux.

 

[TariqSoftDev]

So cool will it work on windows or is it for linux.

Just for Linux, Windows version will be a complete separate program but unable to do anything android.

Unsure if I will release a Windows version though.