Re: Cloning Ipaqs - Thankyou and Doc suggestion

From: Mark G. Lewis (Lewis@erg.sri.com)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 19:45:27 EST


"Hicks, Jamey" wrote:

> CF flash cards should work. Small CF cards should also now work (fat12). I did find a problem today that deleted files can cause bootldr not to find other files in the same directory. It is not solved yet.

Jamey,

Yes, a CF clone method would be more generally available...
I just freshly formatted FAT 16 on a 32Meg CF, and put my root image on it, then tried the
clonee steps (below), and it failed.

The directory looks empty as reported by 'vfat mount', so I did ls, and got the following.
boot> vfat ls
  vfat_list_dir_entries: attr=00000000
  skipping long entries

I got kernal panics when trying to boot after that. So I reloaded from the Microdrive with the same instructions with success. By the way, the length parameter on the 'program' command is still required.

You said FAT12 (ugh) , do you think that would do it instead of FAT16 ?

Cmds used:

 sleeve insert
 pcmcia insert
 vfat mount 0
 vfat read 0xc2000000 snap76.jf2 #(my root image)
 program root 0xc2000000 0x00fc0000 # length param required with bootldr 2.18.22

Thank you,
Mark Lewis



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