From: Hicks, Jamey (Jamey.Hicks@compaq.com)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 07:45:25 EDT
It freezes about the time the kernel being loaded into ram overwrites the
bootldr which is also loaded in ram.
Why not use the bootldr in flash to load the kernel?
Jamey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Coffy [mailto:karma@altern.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:05 PM
> To: bootldr@handhelds.org
> Subject: [Bootldr] bootldr-2.2.14, xmodem freezes at 136k
>
>
> Hi, i've the following problem using bootldr-2.2.14 loaded in ram:
>
> My ipaq is a 3630, it has a bootldr-2.2.8 on it,
> I load a 2.2.14 (compiled by hand, or gotten on the ftp) in ram doing:
> load ram 0xc0022000 87625 (the size, that i think should
> be changed to
> reflect the real size, changes nothing)
> call .
>
> It loads the new booltdr, display splash screen, everything expected,
> so i try to load a kernel in flash:
> load kernel (see log above)
>
> It begins to load, using xmodem, but every time i tried, it
> stops at 136k,
> the LCD shutdowns, the bootldr crashes, and on the host:
>
> -
> Sending netbsd-IPAQ20010708, 22427 blocks: Give your local
> XMODEM recex
> ive command now.
> x
> Xmodem sectors/kbytes sent: 1094/136kRetry 0: Got 44 for
> sector ACK x
> Retry 0: NAK on sector
> x
> Retry 0: Got 30 for sector ACK
> Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
> (the problem is not the netbsd kernel..., same problem with
> linux one :))
> -
>
> I use minicom-1.81.1.
>
> So the question is: have i done something wrong, is this a
> known bug (i've
> found nothing anywhere on the archive of the list), is there
> a solution... ?
>
>
> Full log:
> boot> load ram 0xc0022000 87625
> ready for xmodem download..
> ded to C0022000
>
> boot> call .
> Calling fcn=C0022000
> a0=00000000
> a1=00000000
> a2=00000000
> a3=00000000
> boot> partition show
> argv[1]=show
> npartitions=00000003
> bootldr
> base: 00000000
> size: 00040000
> flags: 00000002
> params
> base: 00040000
> size: 00040000
> flags: 00000000
> kernel
> base: 00080000
> size: 01000000
> flags: 00000000
> boot> load kernel
> loading flash region kernel
> using xmodem
> ready for xmodem download..
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