Re: HTC bootloader

On Fri Apr 1 07:17:33 2005 Chuck Circlecreek wrote:
> Congratulations guys! You really have made a great job.

Thanks.

> I must agree, as a professional programmer, I would really like to
> participate in this portage work (still trying to plan regular
> timeslots to do this). Now is time for me to take part in experiments,
> but as I heavily rely on my hx4700 for my job, I wouldn't like to
> transform it into an useless brick of plastic. So my question would
> be:
>
> Is the HTC bootloader standing in the flash-able part of the rom or in a
> non-corruptable area? In other words: if I'd make a mistake during a flash
> session, would I lose it and therebeit the possibility to start-over with the
> HTC pressing the magic-keys?

The HTC bootloader is in flashable ROM, so there is a possibility of it
getting clobbered, but I'm confident that the HTC bootloader will not
clobber itself. As it stands, I have reflashed bootldr and the
kernel/initrd at least a couple dozen times with HTC to get linux up and
running. If you use our bootldr to reflash, there is a much higher
probability of clobbering something vital (although I have done a little
of it successfully). But if you don't reflash with our bootldr yet, the
risk is much reduced.

If you don't want to reflash, you can still use haret and boot linux off
a CF card.

In either case, you'll want to backup our ROM on an SD card bigger than
128MB before doing anything.
Received on Fri Apr 01 2005 - 09:04:41 EST