OUYA Linux (Xubuntu 12.04)

2020 · operating-system · driver · development · recovery · Windows · Linux · i12bretro

Source Main | Source Secondary NOTE: None of the slowness/delays have been edited out of the Linux footage so you can see first hand what the Linux experience was like running on the Ouya Things You Will Need - A USB flash drive, at least 4 GB of free space - A USB hub, preferably with external power - A USB keyboard Prerequisites and Downloads 01. Download Xubuntu 12.04 files 02. Download win32diskimager 1.0 (Does not work on Windows 11 24H2. Older builds of Windows 10 like 1511 do work with this program). 03. Download i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_Commands.7z 04. Extract Xubuntu 12.04 files 05. Extract the downloaded i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_Commands.7z 06. Extract Win32DiskImager-1.0.0-binary.7z 07. Launch Win32DiskImager.exe 08. Navigate to the extracted Ubuntu files and select the .img file 09. Select and then double and triple check the correct device is selected from the dropdown All data will be lost, check the selected device one more time Highly recommend a drive with fast random read/write (a.k.a high IOPS). Especially since it is an OS and has a swap partition. It does not need high bandwidth since it is limited by a USB 2.0 connection, but does not hurt if it is faster. 10. Click the Write button 11. Ignore prompts to format the USB storage drive 12. Safely remove the USB storage drive 13. Plug the USB storage drive, keyboard and mouse in the USB hub 14. Plug the USB hub into the Ouya Installing Ouya USB Drivers *Important, this is only for Windows Hosts. You also must use a system that predates secure boot. In my case it worked for Windows Vista. A better solution is using a Linux system like Ubuntu 24.04 where you can just install adb and fastboot using apt-get and ignore this part. 01. Right click Start ≫ Command Prompt (Admin) 02. Paste the following commands to disable driving signing checks temporarily bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON shutdown /r 03. Your PC will reboot 04. Connect a USB cable from the micro USB port on the back of the Ouya to your PC 05. Connect the USB hub to the USB port on the Ouya ≫ Plug in the USB keyboard and prepared USB flash drive 06. Make sure the Ouya is connected to a display via HDMI 07. Power on the Ouya 08. After a few seconds you should hear Windows chime that a new device has been detected 09. Right click Start ≫ Device Manager 10. Expand Other Devices and you should see OUYA listed 11. Right click OUYA ≫ Update Driver 12. Select Browse my computer for driver software 13. Click the Browse... button 14. Navigate to the extracted i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_commands\files\driver 15. Click OK 16. Make sure "Include subfolders" is checked, click Next 17. Windows should find the correct driver for the Ouya and install it 18. Navigate to the i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_commands in windows explorer 19. Right click i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_commands.bat ≫ Run as administrator 20. The script uses the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to boot the Ouya into recovery 21. When the command prompts to "-- Setup the fastboot driver", go back to Device Manager expand Android Device 22. Right click Android Bootloader Device ≫ Update Driver 23. Select Browse my computer for driver software 24. Click the Browse... button 25. Navigate to the extracted i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_commands\files\driver 26. Click OK 27. Make sure "Include subfolders" is checked, click Next 28. Windows should find the correct driver for the Ouya and install it 29. Press Enter at the command prompt once the driver is installed to continue 30. The script will run another ADB command to push a custom zImage kernel to the Ouya 31. The Ouya should boot Ubuntu 12.04 from the USB 32. Default logins are as follows: root/123456 developer/ouya If you skiped "Installing Ouya USB Drivers" This is for Linux systems mainly, 1. Exstract the i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_Commands.7z and with Linux terminal navigate to "i12bretro_OUYA_Ubuntu_Commands/files/" where the "boot_ubuntu_USB.img" file is located. Also make sure ADB and Fastboot are installed through apt. 2. With the Ouya booted, run "adb devices" 3. Run "adb reboot bootloader" and wait a few seconds. 4. run "fastboot devices" 5. run "fastboot boot boot_ubuntu_USB.img" Configure Ubuntu 01. Change the root and developer passwords by running the commands below, replacing the passwords with something secure sudo passwd developer sudo passwd root 02. Configure wireless networking by modifying /etc/network/interfaces 03. To return to the Ouya OS simply reboot from the Ubuntu interface There are instructions included in the Ubuntu download to dual boot the Ouya with Ubuntu and Android. I did not test this option, but beware the dual boot option has the potential to brick your device. The fastboot option demonstrated in the video poses very little risk to your console. For further reading and history on this check out https://tuomas.kulve.fi/blog/2013/09/12/debian-on-ouya-all-systems-go/ Cleaning Up (if you did the Installing Ouya USB Drivers section): 01. To res