(Everything has been tested on a Shield android TV PRO (500Gb))

Prepare your SHIELD ANDROID TV

• Turn the shield on ;) and update it to the last system version (currently Shield Exprience 3.2)

• Go into Parameters -> About -> click 10 times ont "buil" to activate developer mode

• In Preferences -> 'Developers options" -> Debugging -> activate "USB Debugging"

• Connect your shield to a PC

• Install Android command line tools (adb and fastboot)

  • ubuntu

  $sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

  • mac

    http://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#mac-tools

• Check that everything is OK adb devices should show your shield is connected

• Reboot the shield in fastboot mode adb reboot bootloader

• Unlock shield's bootloader First : (sudo) fastboot devices should show your shield

Then : (sudo) fastboot oem unlock

BEWARE it can take upto several hours

• prepare your microSD card : Copy the content of the root file system (inside ubuntu14.04_SPOC.tar.bz2) in the rood directory of your microSD card.

• Put the microSD card in the back of our shield

To boot on linux after installation is complete

• Go into fastboot mode adb reboot bootloader

From a PC connected to your Shield

• Download boot.img from this repository
• Boot your Shield on linux using boot.img sudo fastboot boot boot.img

Useful information

• user/passwd are spoc/SPOC
• CUDA is installed using Linux4Tegra 24.1 64-bit RootFS and Jetpack for L4T 2.2
• opam (OCaml PAckage Manager) is installed :

opam list
 # Installed packages for 4.02.3:
 base-bigarray            base  Bigarray library distributed with the OCaml compiler
 base-bytes               base  Bytes library distributed with the OCaml compiler
 base-ocamlbuild          base  OCamlbuild binary and libraries distributed with the OCaml compiler
 base-threads             base  Threads library distributed with the OCaml compiler
 base-unix                base  Unix library distributed with the OCaml compiler
 biniou                  1.0.9  Binary data format designed for speed, safety, ease of use and backward compatibility as
 camlp4                 4.02+1  Camlp4 is a system for writing extensible parsers for programming languages
 cmdliner                0.9.8  Declarative definition of command line interfaces for OCaml
 conf-m4                     1  Virtual package relying on m4
 conf-pkg-config           1.0  Virtual package relying on pkg-config installation.
 conf-which                  1  Virtual package relying on which
 cppo                    1.3.2  Equivalent of the C preprocessor for OCaml programs
 ctypes                  0.6.2  Combinators for binding to C libraries without writing any C.
 ctypes-foreign          0.4.0  Virtual package for enabling the ctypes.foreign subpackage.
 easy-format             1.2.0  High-level and functional interface to the Format module of the OCaml standard library
 merlin                  2.5.0  Editor helper, provides completion, typing and source browsing in Vim and Emacs
 ocamlbuild                  0  Build system distributed with the OCaml compiler since OCaml 3.10.0
 ocamlfind               1.6.2  A library manager for OCaml
 ocp-build        1.99.17-beta  Project manager for OCaml
 ocp-indent              1.5.3  A simple tool to indent OCaml programs
 typerex-build    1.99.17-beta  Project manager for OCaml
 yojson                  1.3.2  Yojson is an optimized parsing and printing library for the JSON format

Thanks

• XDA forums and particularly
  • Ubuntu Utopic for nvidia shield tv
  • Build kernel from source and boot to Ubuntu using L4T (Linux for Tegra) rootfs