Re: Fwd: Contributing to the project

Here is the pertinent part of my startup.txt file:

# This is startup file for HaRET, Linux bootloader for WinCE
# http://handhelds.org/wiki/HaRET

set kernel "zImage-2.6.21-hh20-r20-aximx50v.bin"

# Boot choices. Uncomment 'set' statements in exactly one section

## Choice 1 - Boot from SD/MMC card
# Have 2 partition on a card:
# 1st - FAT with HaRET executable, this file and zImage above
# 2nd - EXT2 with rootfs tarball extracted
set cmdline "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=10 console=ttyS0,115200n8
console=tty0"

This file came automatically with the build, and it seems to be
correct. I only had to remove the ".bin" at the end of the kernel
name since the actual kernel file itself didn't have that extension.
I also tried the file that is available on the handhelds.org wiki,
although it seems to be pretty old.

Although I will try again, I thought I tried various combos of
wifi/bluetooth on and off, and mirror mode on/off with no success.
There is one strange issue involving this all, however. Whenever I go
to the mirror mode setting screen, I do not see anything except the
check box to enable it, and a few random artifacts scattered on the
screen. I don't know how this happened, or if it is possibly some
kind of font issue or something. I just assume by checking the box
mirror mode is enabled.\

As far as building the image, check out the openembedded project at
www.openembedded.org. It's pretty easy to set up and everything, and
the axim support is already in there to be able to just tell it that's
what you want to build for and kick off the build.

Thanks,

~Lou

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Stavros Fox Polymenis
<s.p_at_orbitalfox.com> wrote:
> Thats great!
>
> I have been looking into cross compiling the kernel for a while now, and
> only recently did i find how i could possibly do it. I tried many things
> including building a toolchain for ARM etc but always something went
> wrong.
>
> So i am really interested if you have any tips on how to do set up the
> toolchain.
>
> As for the error, there is something wrong with your boot parameters, as
> in your haret starts ok, but there is probably something wrong with the
> "kernel=.. root=.." command.
>
> Can you paste it here, along with your kernel name etc?
>
> Thanks alot,
> Stavros
>
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 17:07 -0700, Louie Ilievski wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the last month I've started to familiarize myself with the project
>> and have set up a development environment to help contribute to it. I
>> own a x51v and want to put it to good use. I hope I can help do
>> something useful for everyone. I have successfully built Angstrom
>> images for my axim using the openembedded environment.
>>
>> So far I have been unable to boot anything I have built, however. I
>> am using Haret 0.5.1 so maybe I need to try dropping down to 0.4.8
>> which I see people linking to. It just gets stuck at "Jumping to
>> kernel." If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>>
>> I am Linux savvy and am a software developer by day, developing in
>> Linux, for Linux, so I hopefully have a good foundation to help out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ~Lou
>
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