Re: HaRET boot unsuccessfull

Hi Andrey,

Have a look at RamdiskRescue and see how you go.

Keep in mind that the first boot can take some time to complete (try
waiting at least 10mins ... it really depends on the card).

It's impossible to debug these things without serial working.

Marcus.

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:12 +0300, Andrey V Stolyarov wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just tried to install Linux on my iPAQ 2210 and failed. Sad
> enough, I've even modified the craddle as it recommended at
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH2200CradleMod but
> I've never seen anything in my minicom, so it is posible that the
> serial port of my device simply doesn't work.
>
> Now, the exact procedure. I've downloaded
> bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200.tar from
> http://handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.8.4/install/download.html
> , and haret-0.5.1.exe from
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET
>
> My CF card is Kingston's 512MB one. I've partitioned it as
> follows:
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Disk /dev/sdb: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 * 1 32 16096+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/sdb2 33 993 484344 83 Linux
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> then, I've formatted the first one with mkfs.vfat, the second one
> with mke2fs, and, following the instruction at
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/CardBoot , unpacked the
> appropriate files, copied the kernel image under the name of
> "zImage" onto the vfat partition along with the haret (renamed to
> haret.exe) and the startup.txt file (exactly as shown in the
> instruction). After making the appropriate modification to the
> etc/fstab within the Linux partition, I've given it the first
> try.
>
> The device quickly shown me several lines of text (I couldn't
> even read them because they disappear quickly), then the screen
> went blank (black, or may be should I say "gray", as the
> display's light was on), and nothing else happened. Device
> didn't any longer react to any keypresses, but rebooted after
> pressing the reboot button (with the stylus).
>
> I then downloaded the previous version of haret (haret-0.3.8.exe)
> and tried it to see the penguin, the termometer and the 'blood
> eyes'. Again, nothing interesting happened then.
>
> As far as I have heard here in the list, there could be a problem
> with the default kernel. I feel totally unprepared to build it
> myself (well, I never succeded in building a working 2.6.* for my
> desktop, it looks like a total mess -- despite the fact I had no
> problem building 2.4.* and the older). Could may be someone
> share the known-to-work kernel binary? Or even an image of a
> CF-card which was successfully used to boot up Linux on 2210?
>
> I'm really sorry I can't say more, as my serial-port modification
> to the craddle doesn't seem to work.
>
> WinCE is boring, I don't want to continue using it any longer.
>
> What is suprprising for me is why there's no documented procedure
> which leads to success for sure? Is it that because the hardware
> is THAT different for different units of the "same" 2210 model?
> In fact, it took about a hour for me just to find all the
> instructions I finally used, starting on the handhelds.org main
> page, and may be I ended up missing some important instructions
> (well, I've included links to all the texts I used, could someone
> check if I'm missing something).
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Croco
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Received on Wed Jan 09 2008 - 18:40:43 EST