Thanks, h6365 now working using MMCmobile card!

I had a bunch of replies and now have a linux h6365 using a 1GB
Kingston MMCMobile card. Sweet as honey. Can't thank you all enough,
but for the benefit of others, I will put my experience and the
replies in a summary.

Firstly, following advice I went and got a 1GB Kingston MMCmobile
card (I had meant to get an MMC card, and was disappointed by my
mistake, but it turned out it's fully backwards compatible, and spec
sheet says faster with right hardware/software). This worked, I got
to the GPE desktop, after also following the advice of booting up
within a couple of minutes of a hard-reset.

To experiment, I tried hard-reset & booting with both the 512MB Nokia
microSD card and the 2GB 'A Data' SD card. The 512MB worked, the 2GB
had the same problem as before. The booting process with the 1GB MC
mobile card started by saying 'card has unknown MMCA version 4', but
anyway it booted just fine. I timed the boot up sequence with both
the 512MB SD and the 1GB MMC, and there was absolutely no difference,
both were 3 mins 2 secs.

I found I could boot with wifi and bluetooth switched on or off.

Anyway, now I am very happy, thanks everyone. Hopefully I'll get some
free time soon to get involved in the port.

Mike Amy

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Dear Mike,

It does work on my 6365. I have 256MB no-brand MMC cards.

Cheers.

Buck

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I've had the exact same experience as you :)
Its cause when not hard resetting your device first.. You must backup
all your stuff
then hard reset, then QUICKLY start up your phone, and launch Linux, I
emphaze quickly, it must be done within a minute or two :)

Hope this helps
Federico

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Dnia poniedziałek, 14 maja 2007, napisałeś:

> Thanks for replying, could you tell me what size and make worked for
> you? I'll go out tomorrow and try to find a cheap MMC card big enough
> to test.
>

I have used 512 MB Kingston.

> I wondered whether the card size was simply too big (perhaps the
> bootloader doesn't support the large cards), so I tried an
> experiment, using a 512MB microSD card in an adapter instead. The
> boot process got further this time, getting to 'boot linux' before
> the screen turned first to alternate white and black rows, and then
> slowly faded over about a minute into random coloured columns on
> black. I guess that the screen had stopped being refreshed. I soft
> reset and went back to wince. Upon restarting it said 'Your ipaq
> powered off due to a temperature condition'. So I guess size does
> make a difference, but I'd love a 2GB linux handheld. Perhaps a
> different partitioning scheme would work (once I get it booted).
>

You should do full reset before trying boot Linux. I have expirenced
similar
problems when I had trying boot Linux with bluetooth enabled.

> Also, do you have any idea why MMC would make a difference? Only real
> difference I saw was in speed, (but I lack knowledge in the area):
> http://www.handhelds.org/hypermail/familiar/223/22331.html
>

First SD cards are more "complicated" than MMC. Second, MMC cards are
well
documented, so it is easier to make drivers for it.

-- 
Pozdrawiam.
Piotr Zięcik
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I don't know why your having problems with the 2gig.  I personally  
use a 1 gig and it does fine.
As for your 512g.   It sounds like your not booting from a full fresh  
hard reset of Windows CE.  Hold down the power button while your  
press the reset button.  Then after the unit comes back up in Windows  
CE quickly click on wililo.exe.  If you wait any longer that a few  
minutes or open any other applications, I seem to have the same  
problem you speak of and can not boot Linux.
If your already doing it then I can't guess what is exactly wrong.   
Also you might have better success with booting Linux if you make  
sure both bluetooth and wifi is turned off.  Some times I can't seem  
to boot into Linux and making sure these are turned off seems to  
solve my problem.
[David Ashton]