Re: [iPAQ] bootldr 2.18.54 trashes the DRAM

Yes, I had the same problem with loading PPC2002 back on my 3650. I
ended up loading the parrot loader back on, or the ipaq wasn't very
useful. At least I know now it wasn't something I was doing. With
Parrot, its fine.

-andy

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Goetz Bock wrote:

>
> On Sat, Jan 18 '03 at 01:29, Johnny Cheng wrote:
>> I had installed bootldr 2.18.54 in my iPAQ H3630 with Pocket PC 2002
>> and
>> EUU3 running. Whenever I do a soft-reset, the data and programs in
>> DRAM
>> would be trashed. Is it normal?
> Yes, that is normal, and it's a bug in WinCE (lake of dokumentation).
>
> The bootloader changes some registers, it does NOT touch the RAM, still
> WinCE thinks it has to erase the whole RAM before it can continue to
> boot.
> As it is not known how the registers must be set to avoide this, there
> is no fix.
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Received on Sat Jan 18 20:59:29 2003