Re: 2.20.4 : my nightmare continues...

According to gael.eveno@free.fr,
> Hi,
>
> After 2 days of great happiness, my bootloader stops "loading" intimate.
> Now I have the same problem than Tony Godshall and the same log file... ;o(
>
> As I've tested intimate with a CF card, I tried with it, and now, I'm sure
> problem comes from 2.20.4 bootldr
>
> Ga?l

Perhaps this is why the web page says 2.20.x is not compatible with
intimate. They also say they are investigating it, but
there's not detail, but the intimate site changes only very rarely
(and with no specifics, it's hard to pitch in :-( ).

(Heck, they don't fix it even when very specific known show-stopper
errors in it exist, like the partition size issue and the blackbox vs
matchbox issue!)

I've given up on intimate's official install method in favor of
the debootstrap-on-familiar method ( a merge of
http://handhelds.org/projects/ipaqsetup.html, third method, at
the bottom and the official debian install manual for arm,
debootstrap method, starting with familiar) for the base system,
and then coming back to the intimate project for the ipaq-specific
stuff. It's complicated, but at least I can understand each
step well enough to recover from an error.

The intimate stuff is so cool (the screenshot gallery sold
me right away), it's a shame it's such a pain to get it installed.
Received on Wed Sep 03 18:01:29 2003