[iPAQ] D'oh! I made a brick!

I tried a linux install, but was having some problems with cardmgr and
the dual sleeve PCMCIA, so I restored to WinCE for a bit, until I had
some time to play more.

After restoration, despite passing the self-test ROM checksum, WinCE was
a little flakey (pop-up reminders couldn't be dismissed, Microsoft
Reader hung on startup, even after clearing the machine with
power-switch-off/power-switch-on.)

So I thought I'd try restoring the ROM's again. I used osloader.exe,
but I guess I should have installed the bootmgr first, since my xmodem
transfer of 0xc00000 died, and the unit was no longer bootable :-(

I tried doing the Parrot CF restore, but it doesn't seem to like my dual
PCMCIA sleeve, and I don't have access to a single.

Is there anyway to restore with Parrot via the serial port (there seem
to be commands like "lr" that sound like they might do the trick). Is
there any way to do this, or special software I could get that would
work with Parrot to do the trick?

Or am I going to have to send it back :-(

Any advice would be appreciated.

-dale
Received on Fri Sep 21 15:14:15 2001