Re: h2200 setup

Hello Morgan,

It seems you are not the only one having problems with a "card boot", so
I am taking the liberty of posting this to the forum.

roof99_at_gmail.com posted on h2200-port_at_handhelds.org that he was having
trouble booting an h2210. He has not tried my script, but says that he
has done pretty much the same thing manually. He's trying to use a
Secure Digital card. I have used both CF (like you) and SD (like him)
successfully.

I'm wondering if possibly there's some hardware difference in some of
the h2200s?

Another possibility is that there's a difference in the memory cards.
The ones I am using have a relatively small capacity and are quite old.
Or maybe the newer, faster chips draw more power supply current than the
h2200 can provide, or there is some other incompatibility.

And still another thing to try - I originally used haret-0.3.8, months
ago. It gave the "bloodshot eyes penguin" display while booting. On my
h2200, the current haret-0.5-1 does not give this display though the
wiki says it should. Maybe you should try with haret-0.3.8. I put it
in http://cyberspirit.dyndns.org:81/%7Ejack/familiarsetup/ with the
other files.

What is your host system? Maybe a different host system handles the
permissions differently so that the un-tar'ing of the system onto the
memory card messes up the permissions.

Yet another possibility - we use a lot of Compact Flash cards at my work
and we have found that most are not reliable. They tend to lose a block
here and there. We have to source premium cards from a company called
Hagiwara, which uses only 100% pre-tested flash chips. The consumer
grade cards are not 100% tested because it is too costly and the
competition is fierce. Having said that, even the consumer grade cards
only give a bad block after multiple complete reads and writes of the
entire card.

Good luck

Jack Dodds

Morgan Read wrote:
> Hello Jack
>
> The page is awesome! I knew this had to be as easy as 1,2,3...
>
> Now for the bad news... As I said, I knew this had to be as easy as
> 1,2,3 and I'm sure it is and now I'm convinced that I've got some sort
> of dodgy hardware or something weird - just like trying to boot
> Angstrom originally from LAB and my previous experience with Familiar
> & HaRET - I get a linux booting text, the screen dims (still with the
> text) then goes blank (with the back-light apparently still on,
> there's one little pixel glowing blue at the bottom of the screen). :(
>
> So, here I am, it's been 15 minutes so far. Still the same screen.
> I'm going to bed and will see if there's any change in the morning.
>
> Thanks for all your time and help - that page is truly awesome
>
> I don't know what you'd suggest - do you know of any hardware checks?
>
> The serial # is a bit different in form to yours: TWC342366J
>
> Best regards,
> Morgan.
>
> Jack Dodds wrote:
>> Hello Morgan,
>>
>> Let me know how this works for you:
>>
>> http://cyberspirit.dyndns.org:81/~jack/familiarsetup/h2200familiarhowto.html
>>
>>
>> Jack Dodds
>>
>>

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