Re: Please Help Familiar Install Failure

Hi
Thanks,for your support.
It is working now
I am on the stage were I have to setup the network
knowing that I have only the ipaq with a serial or USB craddle and a windows
98 PC what should I do ???
Thanks

>From: "Brien Muschett" <muschett@us.ibm.com>
>To: "M. Eng" <meng50218867@hotmail.com>
>CC: "Familiar List" <familiar@handhelds.org>, familiar-admin@handhelds.org,
> "iPAQ Handhelds List" <ipaq@handhelds.org>
>Subject: Re: [Familiar] Please Help Familiar Install Failure
>Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 07:42:36 -0400
>
>Hi,
>Initially I had a similar problem. The familiar installations instructions
>can mislead you into pulling down a booldr that appears to be incompatible
>with the either the task* filesystems or the osloader. I eventually did
>not upgrade to the 2.14.8 bootldr and instead pulled down the 2.14.5
>bootldr. Things worked after that. Here are the files and their sizes
>that I used.
>
> 100,736 bootldr-0000-2.14.5
> 79,872 osloader-1.3.0.exe
> 12,058,624 task-familiar-complete.jffs2
> 517,148 zImage-2.4.3
>
>Let me know if you need the checksums.
>
>After I used these files, the image decompressed and booted properly. Hope
>this helps!
>
>Brien Muschett
>IBM, Embedded Speech Development
>Boca Raton, FL
>T/L 975-2180
>1-561-862-2180
>
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> "M. Eng"
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>Please Help Familiar Install Failure
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> 08/08/2001 08:14
> PM
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>Hi all
>
>I really need your help with my installation problem.
>
>I am trying to get familiar v0.4 working on my iPAQ
>H3660 with a 64MB CompactFlash Memory module.
>
>The version of the bootloader is 2.14.8, and the root
> image is task-familiar-complete.jffs2
>
>I went through all the steps of the installation successfully.
>For the first boot after typing boot, I get that on the terminal display :
>boot> boot
>booting flash...
>kernel_magic=E1A00000
>kernel_region_words[9]=016F2818
>Linux ELF flash_imgstart=50080000 size=00080000 dest=C0000000
>offset=00008000
>MMU Control=C19F4071
>copying Linux kernel ... done
>linuxEntryPoint: C0008000
>kernel_image_dest: C0000000
>kernel_image_offset: 00008000
>C0008000: E1A00000
>C0008004: E1A00000
>C0008008: E1A00000
>C000800C: E1A00000
>C0008010: E1A00000
>C0008014: E1A00000
>C0008018: E1A00000
>C000801C: E1A00000
>C0008020: EA000002
>C0008024: 016F2818
>root_filesystem_name=ramdisk
>argc=00000002
>args=noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock/3 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0
>setting boot parameters
>get_param: could not find parameter system_rev
>Setting up Linux parameters at address=C0000100
>using_ramdisk=00000001
>initrd_start=346C7466
>dram_size=04000000
>nr_pages=00004000
>command line is: noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock/3 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0
>linuxEntryPoint=C0008000
>Booting Linux image
>
>
>And the process stop at this stage and the cursor flashing.
>I have one error message after the line saying setting boot parameters. The
>message is :
>get_param: could not find parameter system_rev
>
>What's wrong and what should I do.
>
>Please I really need to have this fixed and working quick
>Thanks in advance
>
>---
>Latyr Jean-Luc FAYE
>http://faye.cjb.net
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Received on Thu Aug 9 11:39:52 2001