Re: Building kernel for h4100

If this is anything like my h4355, the 9:17 is because you did it at
that time. On mine, I can see parts of the WinCE desktop peeking through
sometimes when my boot fails (It's never worked actually, same problem).
Once, after the failure, I was screwing around and noticed that the time
was the time from WinCE, then some other things came back and inserted
themselves over the picture of Tux.

I think this is probably the single biggest problem we have, because
there a alot of us who can't even get a booted kernel to then mess
around. I'm not sure how best to address the problem.

Tom Gilbert wrote:
> HI Michael,
>
> So I've just tried booting using:
> the intrd and rootfs you suggest
> plus either a kernel I build myself or the one on the starterkit link below
> for jun10.
>
> I used the startup.txt file from there also, after changing:
> set INITRD initrd1.gz
>
> to
>
> set INITRD initrd
>
>
> So the whole file reads:
> set KERNEL zImage
> set MTYPE 341
> set INITRD initrd
> set CMDLINE "root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0,115200n8
> console=tty0 ramdisk_size=8192 cachepolicy=writethrough"
> bootlinux
>
> I still don't have any luck with either kernel, although they now both fail
> in the same way.
> Haret - thermometer climbs to only half way then remains stuck - eventually
> '9:17' is written to the top right of the screen - then stays stuck.
>
> Soft reset clears it (thankfully - no lost settings).
>
> So, I wonder what's wrong?
>
> cheers,
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Opdenacker [mailto:michael@free-electrons.com]
> Sent: 12 August 2004 16:03
> To: Tom Gilbert
> Cc: h4100-port
> Subject: Re: [H4100-port] Building kernel for h4100
>
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> You should use
> http://handhelds.org/~michaelo/ipaq/starterkit/initrd_jun10 (see
> http://handhelds.org/~michaelo/ipaq/starterkit/ChangeLog), as this is
> the latest initrd for 2.6.6.
> The corresponding rootfs should be
> http://handhelds.org/~michaelo/ipaq/starterkit/rootfs_jun28a_2004.tar.bz2.
>
> We should continue this discussion on the list, because it could be
> useful to someone else, and so that you get feedback from others.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael.
>
>
>
>
>>Hi Michael,
>>
>>Well, certainly didn't boot - first time would be too lucky, methinks.
>>
>>I used haret.exe from:
>>http://handhelds.org/~michaelo/ipaq/starterkit/haret.exe
>>
>>Tried initrd_jul25a from same place.
>>
>>Gets further than before - (better version of haret.exe than before, I
>>think). See penguin, thermometer goes to top, screen fades, then stays
>>blank.
>>
>>A soft reset then takes me to the bootloader screen showing:
>>1.04H
>>1.02
>>SD
>>
>>and the HP invent logo on white.
>>
>>A hard reset then gets me back to launching & re-setting up WinCe.
>>
>>Not quite sure what combination of kernel, initrd & rootfs works at the
>>moment on the h4150?
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Tom
>>
>>
>
>
>

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