RE: load bootldr weirdness

Alan W Black writes:
> Although minicom seems to be sending it (lots of NAK warnings) the
> ipaq end doesn't seem to be getting anything, after sending (which
> fails with a no ACK or EOT message), if I simpl press return I
> get help as it it had received a garbage command

Yeah, that's the xmodem receive bug. Best work-around is to exit
minicom when you're ready to download at the bootloader prompt. Use
the following command to issue the command and start the transfer.
When you see the bootloader prompt, ^C out of the cat command. Run it
like this:
    ipaqsendfile 'load root' task-bootstrap.jffs2 /dev/ttyS0

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$1" -o -z "$2" -o -z "$3" ]; then
        echo "Usage:"
        echo " $0 <command> <filename> <ttydev>"
        exit
fi

if test -e md5sums && md5sum -c md5sums; then
        echo "md5sum checked... ok"
else
        if test -e $2.md5sum && md5sum -c $2.md5sum; then
                echo "md5sum checked... ok"
        elif test -e $2.md5sum; then
                echo "md5sum failed... exiting"
                exit
        else
                echo "no m5dsum... continuing"
        fi
fi
echo "$1" > $3
sx -b $2 > $3 < $3
cat $3

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