Boot Ubuntu on smartphone SD card?
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Now here's what I want: Ubuntu on the SD card that lives in my phone.
I like using Ubuntu portably and my phone as a flash drive, but I haven't been able to make these work together yet.
I've tried booting off my Huawei U8800 (Android 2.2) and Nokia E66 with a micro-SD card (with 11.10, boots OK in a card-reader) on an eeepc 901 without luck. The Huawei doesn't show up in the BIOS boot menu. BIOS sees the Nokia but halts at "Boot error".
I guess this is related to the phone's flash drive emulation and how it handles bootsectors, but I don't know enough about how that works to go any further. Has anyone succeeded in this?
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