More than a week ago, we saw the MeeGo 1.1 OS being ported to Windows Mobile 6.5 running HTC HD2 smartphone. Now the same Irish iPhone & Mac Developer, Steve Straughton Smith has managed to successfully port MeeGo 1.1 OS on the Nexus S. Installing MeeGo 1.1 OS on Nexus S with Android 2.3 Gingerbread requires a custom kernel and a rootfs image of the OS on internal memory.It all started with a dual-booting Nokia N900 tablet with MeeGo 1.1 OS at the end of October 2010. After that we saw MeeGo 1.1 being installed on HD2 and now on the Nexus S. Smith has also given a quick how-to for installing MeeGo on the Nexus S. Only those with good knowledge of Linux should go ahead with the installation.
Steps for Installing MeeGo 1.1
- Build a MeeGo rootfs first in ext2 format by using kickstart.tar.gz as base.
- Compile the images successfully and copy it to rootfs.ext2 on internal memory of Nexus S
- To boot it, you ll need to use Fastboot (fastboot boot nexuss-meego-boot.img) for the http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8657343/nexuss-meego-boot.img boot.img.
- Alternatively you can dual boot the MeeGo OS on Nexus S by flashing it to recovery
Since this is just the first step of successful port, not many basic things are working on MeeGo OS.
Things that don t work currently:
- Touchscreen
- Super-AMOLED brightness control (screen looks near pitch black)
- WiFi
- Everything else
Smith stated that the MeeGo port was his sole endeavor but he certainly needs help from other Linux Geeks to get all functions of Meego port up and running on Nexus S.
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