RE: [jornada] hpcboot, linux, newbie

Booting Linux will overwrite anything stored in RAM by WinCE, so you should back this data up on a CF card or something.

Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gareth@moon127.net [mailto:gareth@moon127.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 10:49 AM
> To: jornada@handhelds.org
> Subject: [jornada] hpcboot, linux, newbie
>
>
> Hi
>
> Ive just bought a 720, primarily for use as an everyday CE handheld I
> admit, but I am also quite a keen user of linux on ARM, and
> like the idea
> of being able to boot into it when needed on the 720.
>
> It would seem I am going to join the following of people trying to use
> hpcboot to get into Linux from CE, and I know people are
> working hard on
> this and dont want another newbie wanting help, so I will
> keep quiet and
> bide my time till something is released.
>
> But I have a question, presumably since CE uses RAM as a
> drive for storing
> add on progs and users files this is wiped when Linux
> starts?? Or is this
> not the case? And if it is indeed the case, partitioning a
> CF such that I
> could install add ons to CE on the FAT side, and linux on the
> ext2 should
> be feasible??
>
> The lack of working Power Management in linux via hpcboot
> isnt too much of
> a problem if I can dual boot in this fashion, as although not
> convenient I
> could just boot linux, do what I want then reboot into CE?
>
> As I said, Im not pestering, but am I barking up a totally
> wrong tree??
>
> --
> Gareth Woolridge
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Received on Fri Aug 30 13:59:31 2002