Re: Re: HELP - h5550 won't boot after v0.8.4-rc2

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:45:07AM -0400, Tom Miller wrote:
> On the iPAQ the screen is blank.
> Will it come up eventually? Or either bootloader or
> images
> corrupted?

Probably your image is fine. If you get the white screen you may have to
take out your battery again. 10 minutes out should be enough.

You want to boot it to the point where the orange LED in the upper right
is flashing. It means the kernel got up enough to start charging the
battery. If it gets all the way up (login prompt at serial line) leave
it until the orange LED goes solid. If it doesn't get a login prompt but
the light is still blinking, leave it in that state for about 45 minutes
to an hour. Then begin the soft-reset/boot cycle until you do get a
login prompt.

BTW, now that you have a 'boot>' prompt, when you boot you can see the
kernel output on the serial line by changing the linuxargs parameter so
that it has 'console=/dev/ttyS00'. It may help you note how far the boot
process has gone.

Good luck!

E

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