RE: [iPAQ] pivoting and flash booting problems?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Paisley [mailto:jp-www@dcs.gla.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:33 AM
> To: Alan Messer
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] pivoting and flash booting problems?

> > - I've also been trying to get the ipaq to boot the CF card
> > directly. I've used the instructions from the Wiki
> > BootingLinuxFromCF, but no luck. It refuses to do anything after
> > finding the kernel. Looking through the logs I notice that the
> > pcmcia insert stage doesn't correctly display the name/revision of
> > the card (despite retrieving them correctly from under Linux). So
> > perhaps 256M cards (SanDisk) aren't supported under bootldr
> > 2.18.39? I've included my boot log entries below. I'd really like
> > to get this is going and forget pivoting, but I'm not having much
> > luck.
>
> I've seen the strange ident too, consistently. I'm assuming it's just some
> kind of byte-swapping style issue in interpreting the info that comes from
> the disk. I have been able to boot successfully.

The identification strings on IDE and CF drives are big endian, wordwise, although all the rest of the data in the description of the disk is little-endian. I'm afraid I was too lazy to fix this, but patches would be accepted. :)

We have used 256MB cards with bootldr 2.18.39.

Jamey
Received on Fri Jun 07 12:38:24 2002