Special Developer Edition (SDE) for Archos G9 Tablets

Back in October, Archos released the GPL source code for Archos G9 Tablets and at the time the Special Developer Edition (SDE) was not released even though it is available for G8 devices.

Now the SDE has still not been officially released, but I found a forum post on XDA Developers Forum explaining how the SDE Menu could be enabled by following the instructions below.

  1. Root your device with Paul O’Brien’s root here. (it won’t work if the device is not rooted)
  2. Unzip the content of gen9_enable_sde.zip to a directory.
  3. Launch the script enable_sde.

Reboot into recovery mode, you should have the SDE menu now, you can flash your own kernel+initrd the same way it was done on previous generation.

One trick: the initramfs should be still named initramfs.cpio.gz, but it should be compressed with lzma with current kernel.

Another trick: to get rid of paul’s root as it messes up sound and sleep, use this:

Code:

 

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Yann
Yann
4 months ago

Hi Jean Luc,
I got an Archos 101b Xenon, and I am trying to install a Linux (any Linux). However, all of this links are now dead.
How can I contact Paul O’Brien to start with, or is there anything that can be done otherwise.
I already contacted Archos, they are not helpful at all.
Thanks for any help,
Cheers,
Yann

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