Re: The mail man always rings twice!

Hi Bas,

Great to hear that you eventually got your h2210!
By the way, I hope that Andrew will eventually get one too!

>
> Hi all,
>
> I received my h2210 the day before yesterday. With Michael
> Opdenacker's great starters kit, my h2210 was running Linux in just
> minutes! Thanks Michael!
>
> Yesterday, the mail man had a nice surprise for me again: see
> <http://basmevissen.nl/h2210_bootloader.html> for details.

Thanks! I was interested in the following trick:

Now you might wonder how to get past the iPAQ touch screen calibration
application. This application must be controlled from the touchscreen
itself. So what is the trick? Well, it is very simple: when first
booted, you can explore the contents from the iPAQ with the ActiveSync
explorer. Remove the shortcut in */Windows/StartUp/welcome* and press
the reset button!

Doing this, I would be able to avoid the welcome procedure at each hard
reset (everytime I leave Linux!). Unfortunately, I have a French version
of Pocket PC, and didn't find any such file. "Startup" seems to
translate to "Démarrage", but this directory doesn't contain any welcome
file.

What are the contents of your */Windows/StartUp/ directory, please?
*

>
> Nathan Dickman of iPAQ Repair and Parts was so kind to donate me a h2210
> PCB for the development of a Linux bootloader. Nathan, many, many thanks
> for the board. It works great, together with a combined USB connection
> and
> power cable I bought at this shop.

That's very nice of them! Let's buy our parts there (for those who live
in Europe) :-)

>
> I hope to have some more progress real soon!

Great! I guess you will work on LAB with Joshua. I guess you will have
to play with the nand flash drivers first. "iPAQ File Store" seems to be
a separate partition. You could reformat it and play with it until the
driver is reliable, without hurting PocketPC.

By the way, have you seen information about the existing bootloader?
It's on http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/HpIpaqH2200OriginalBootloader .
You can use it to backup your whole flash rom, and even try a new image
(including the bootloader... you can just do it once if your new
bootloader doesn't work).

:-)

    Michael.

Michael Opdenacker
http://opdenacker.org/
Received on Wed Mar 17 16:23:52 2004