¶ Running Android on the Beagle Board

If you just want to see Android boot, download the binary from:

You'll have to enter an email address, which will email you a link to a 32M tarball. Inside there are some instructions, a kernel, and a rootfs.

Their instructions are rubbish
The uboot that ships with beagleboard has issues with loading kernels from ext2/3 partitions, so make a small fat partition and stick uImage on there
use ext2/3 for the second partition, and copy the rootfs from the contents of ANDROID/RFS over there
Use the uboot instructions below

More detail on getting it to boot, which may or may not be specific to the software versions on my board, is up at BeagleBoard.

The image provided by embinux is quite old.

¶ Uboot

I use cu to get a console over serial.

$ sudo apt-get install cu
$ cu -l /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 115200

mmcinit
fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000 uimage
setenv bootargs console=ttyS2,115200n8 rw root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 mem=128M devfs=mount rootdelay=1 init=./init

This is the kernel command line I used to get Android running off a SD card using the DVI interface connected to a large LCD monitor as the display.

setenv bootargs console=ttyS2,115200n8 rw root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 mem=128M devfs=mount rootdelay=1 init=./init