iPAQ cloning

From: Sacha Chua (sachac@subdimension.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 07:02:32 EDT


How does one clone the iPAQ following a dd, anyway?
If the image size is 0x1fc0000, copying it to 0xc0000000
would leave its end at 0xc1fc0000.

I had my suspicions about memory, so I added a memset command and
after a bit of binary searching, I found something quirky.

Try this on your iPAQs and see if it works.

poke ram 0xc19f3d50 0

Insta-hang on my system. 0xc19f3d4F works, though.

Could I be running into another silly out of memory problem? I remember
getting a similar error when I went out of bounds before, trying to
load ram at 0xc0000000 in a small iPAQ. That looks suspicious, that
does.

I tried to offset a bit earlier, but I stepped on the LCD image, so that
doesn't work either. =)

vfat write via memory is tricky, anyway - my root partition is fairly
big (0x1fc00000), so I'm going to try using Jamey's new copy command.

copy hda1:test2 root

finds a lot, but can't boot. Will work on this more later. Found 0x28b
entries after loading...

Sacha 8)



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