Re: What is the right combination?

Hi,
I have the same problem with a hama 256 Cf. From a sandisc 1gb Cf
Intimate works well for me with an ipaq 3630. I don't know what is the
difference between both cards, I partitioned and formatted the hama from
familiar linux and from desktop linux via cardreader and tried to copied
it from the sandisc with dd but it never was able to boot... the sandisc
works with bootldr 2.21.12 and 2.18.54 and I can also create more
partitions for swap or windows on it. I can create them with familiar or
cardreader, intimate always boots. If you find out how to solve this
please let me know.
Regards Jan Schmitt

Jonathan Engdahl wrote:
> A lot of the info at the Intimate site seems rather out-of-date, and what
> I'm trying is not working, so I'll ask:
>
> I have an iPAQ 3765 with a single PCMCIA sleeve, and a 3955 with a dual
> PCMCIA sleeve. I also have an Ethernet card, and a couple Toshiba MK5002MPL
> 5 gig PCMCIA hard drives. Both iPAQs are flashed with the 2.21.12
> bootloader, and Familiar 0.7.2, and everything works pretty well. I have gcc
> running, and I've been able to do native rebuilds of bison, flex, and gcc
> under Familiar with a hard drive.
>
> I want to be able to boot the Intimate distribution from a hard drive. I
> partitioned the drives, loaded zimage, params, and initrd to /boot on the
> vfat partition. Both iPAQs are unable to load the zimage file.
>
> Here is the partitioning setup:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 611 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 4 32098+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 5 611 4875727+ 83 Linux
>
> At one point I used Windows XP to repartition the drive, and the
> head/sectors/cylinders organization was changed. When I first got the drive
> it reported 980 cylinders. I assume that since this organization is virtual
> anyhow, it doesn't much matter. (I hope).
>
> I didn't realize how many versions of "FAT" there are. I have tried both
> type 4 and type 6. The documentation doesn't specify which FAT variant(s)
> are supported by the bootloader.
>
> I've tried using both Windows XP and Familiar with fdisk/mkdosfs to
> partition and format the vfat partition.
>
> I started off assuming that the paragraph in the install doc that was
> written about a year ago saying that the new bootloaders don't work is now
> obsolete, but now I'm thinking that I might need an older bootloader and
> that it will only run on the 3765. I already tried flashing 2.18.54 to the
> 3955, but it rejected the attempt, probably because the old bootloader
> architecture code is not supported on the 3955. MANY THANKS TO WHOEVER PUT
> THAT CHECK IN THE BOOTLOADER!!! You probably saved me from a bricked iPAQ.
>
> The tails of the boot logs follow my .sig
>
> Can somebody tell me if it will be possible to run Intimate on the hardware
> I have, and what is the key that I'm missing?
>
> Is the Intimate project still alive? Is there now a better way of running a
> fullblown handheld Linux?
>
> --
> Jonathan Engdahl Rockwell Automation
> Principal Research Engineer 1 Allen-Bradley Drive
> Advanced Technology Mayfield Heights, OH 44124
> http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl jrengdahl@hotmail.com
>
> "The things which are seen are temporary,
> but the things which are not seen are eternal." II Cor. 4:18
>
>
> ======================================================
> On the 3955 I get:
> ..
> pcmcia_insert: funcid = 00000000
> Mounting vfat on partition 00000000
> cmd vfat mount: partid=00000000
> vfat mount: reading bpb_info
> Reading params from file: /boot/params
> vfat_find_file_entry: fname='boot/params'
> dirname='boot'
> basename='PARAMS'
> vfat_find_dir_entry: fname='boot'
> dirname=''
> basename='boot'
> searching root_dir_entries
> Invalid long filename entry: filename too long
> Reading kernel from file: boot/zImage
> vfat_find_file_entry: fname='boot/zImage'
> dirname='boot'
> basename='ZIMAGE'
> vfat_find_dir_entry: fname='boot'
> dirname=''
> basename='boot'
> searching root_dir_entries
> Invalid long filename entry: filename too long
> read zimage failed rc=FFFFFFFE
>
>
> ======================================================
> On the 3765 I get:
> ..
> pcmcia_insert: funcid = 00000000
> ptable signature=0000AA55
> Mounting vfat on partition 00000000
> cmd vfat mount: partid=00000000
> vfat mount: reading bpb_info
> oemname=mkdosfs
> Reading params from file: /boot/params
> vfat_find_file_entry: fname='boot/params'
> dirname='boot'
> basename='PARAMS'
> vfat_find_dir_entry: fname='boot'
> dirname=''
> basename='boot'
> searching root_dir_entries
> vfat_read_clusters_offset: reached VFAT_EOC at bytes_read=00000800
> find_file_in_dir: INITt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000002
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: INITt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000000
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> find_file_in_dir: PARAMS
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFD
> n_bytes=000000A9
> + set linuxargs "init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_blocksize=4096
> console=ttySA0"
> setting param <linuxargs> to value <init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0
> ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=ttySA0>
> + set kernel_filename boot/zimage
> setting param <kernel_filename> to value <boot/zimage>
> + set initrd_filename boot/initrd
> setting param <initrd_filename> to value <boot/initrd>
> + set rootfstype cramfs
> setting param <rootfstype> to value <cramfs>
> Reading kernel from file: boot/zimage
> vfat_find_file_entry: fname='boot/zimage'
> dirname='boot'
> basename='ZIMAGE'
> vfat_find_dir_entry: fname='boot'
> dirname=''
> basename='boot'
> searching root_dir_entries
> vfat_read_clusters_offset: reached VFAT_EOC at bytes_read=00000800
> find_file_in_dir: PARAt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000002
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: PARAt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000000
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> Reading initrd from file: boot/initrd
> vfat_find_file_entry: fname='boot/initrd'
> dirname='boot'
> basename='INITRD'
> vfat_find_dir_entry: fname='boot'
> dirname=''
> basename='boot'
> searching root_dir_entries
> vfat_read_clusters_offset: reached VFAT_EOC at bytes_read=00000800
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000002
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000000
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> find_file_in_dir: PARAMS
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFD
> n_bytes=000000A9
> find_file_in_dir: PARAMS
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFD
> n_bytes=000000A9
> find_file_in_dir: INITRD
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000176
> n_bytes=00743734
> vfat_find_file_entry: fname='boot/initrd'
> dirname='boot'
> basename='INITRD'
> vfat_find_dir_entry: fname='boot'
> dirname=''
> basename='boot'
> searching root_dir_entries
> vfat_read_clusters_offset: reached VFAT_EOC at bytes_read=00000800
> find_file_in_dir: INITt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000002
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: INITt"ŸÁh"ŸÁ,ë
> attr=00000010
> first_cluster=00000000
> n_bytes=00000000
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> find_file_in_dir: ZIMAGE
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFE
> n_bytes=000B8AD0
> find_file_in_dir: PARAMS
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFD
> n_bytes=000000A9
> find_file_in_dir: PARAMS
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000FFD
> n_bytes=000000A9
> find_file_in_dir: INITRD
> attr=00000020
> first_cluster=00000176
> n_bytes=00743734
> C0800000: 31 39 36 0D 0A 48 54 54-50 2F 31 2E 31 20 32 30 | 196..HTTP/1.1 20
> C0800010: 30 20 4F 4B 0D 0A 44 61-74 65 3A 20 4D 6F 6E 2C | 0 OK..Date: Mon,
> C0800020: 20 32 38 20 4A 75 6E 20-32 30 30 34 20 30 34 3A | 28 Jun 2004 04:
> C0800030: 30 34 3A 31 32 20 47 4D-54 0D 0A 53 65 72 76 65 | 04:12 GMT..Serve
> cmd vfat mount: partid=00000000
> vfat mount: reading bpb_info
> oemname=mkdosfs
> pcmcia_remove_sleeve
> Booting vfat...
> kernel partition base C0008000
> kernel_magic=0D343931
> kernel_region_words[9]=206E754A
> Unrecognized kernel image
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Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 12:35:31 EDT