Greetings....
I was going to try the method outlined on the Wiki by Tim Riker, wherein
the Parrot loader is used to store WinCE to a CF card, and then the CF card
is loaded with the Linux bootloader and kernel/filesystem flash image for
the Parrot loader to flash-on-startup....but I am confused about dd'ing the
kernel image onto the CF card; Tim refers to 6 files (mtdblock0..6) that
are concatenated into one for copying onto the CF card along with the MACAW
header that triggers the Parrot loader.
After finally finding a CF card that the Parrot loader recognized (it
failed on two, saying it had saved WinCE and the bootloader), I realized I
should start reading up on bootloaders.
Do these files pre-date the current releases (Familiar, Intimate,
etc.)? Or can I dissect/reorder an existing image to make these files? Or
can I just use an existing image file? Are the filesystems images jffs
format? Or still cramfs?
Questions, questions....
-G!
BTW My CF download check-summed against my WinCE bootloader image saved and
offloaded via Activesync way back when I started enjoying the initial
releases of iPaq Linux. I feel safer already.
Glenn Neufeld _________________
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Received on Thu Oct 11 09:27:27 2001
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