Re: Cannot boot into Bootldr on iPaq h5550

Milan Plzik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.familiar
Message-ID <1208901551.6713.1.camel@localhost>
On Po, 2008-04-21 at 23:09 -0700, TinTTi wrote:
> I have problems installing Familiar Linux v0.8.4 on my iPAQ H5550. 
> I copied BootBlaster and bootldr to the iPAQ and successfully flashed the
> new bootldr. Selecting 'Verify' in BootBlaster says 'mach_type set to 203 =
> 0xcb' and 'You appear to have a valid OHH Bootloader 2.21.12 in flash. To
> access this Bootloader on the serial port, hold the joypad center and
> reset'.
> 
> However, if I do that the iPAQ just buzzes and does not reboot. 

  bootldr doesn't know how to control the display, so it basically
doesn't change it --  that's why you still see WinCE image after holding
joypad down and rebooting. But buzzing indicates that on serial console
you should already see bootldr

> Rebooting
> without holding the joypad center just boots into WinCE.

  That is correct behavior:)

> 
> TinTin

	Milan

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