Re: [jornada] Dual boot

Hi,

in general, if you use a jornada 56x dual booting is not at all possible. The
first thing is that the linux bootloader is not able to boot the windows ce
image and the second problem would be, even if you were able to boot linux
and windows ce, that windows ce would be hard reset after booting linux,
which means that every userdata you entered in windows ce would be lost. If
you want to use the jornada for your daily use then I suggest that you stay
with windows ce as long as there are kernel bugs remaining (the 56x currently
has no support for irda and sound, backlight control is not OK and the
battery life in the suspended state is very poor so you would have to charge
your device every day).
Linux on the jornada 56x is currently more suitable for developers or for
users that want to live "on the edge".

I still did not receive any further information from HP to finish up my kernel
2.6 port and solve all remaining bugs.

kind regards,
Alex

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 15:22, Christof Bodner wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I recently acquired a Jornada and as I am a Linux user, I want to have the
> Penguin with me. But unfortunately I occasionally need a program which is
> only available on CE. So I (occasionally) need dual boot.
>
> My questions:
> Reading the docs, I cannot figure out how difficult it is, to boot the
> original WinCE. Is it practicable to boot into WinCE once a week?
>
> My Jornada reports 47.36MB of total memory (excluding CF card) Which
> bootldr-file is the right one for me? (I have
> bootldr-j56x-64M-2.21.12.bin here)
>
> TIA,
> Ch.
Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 09:35:44 EST