Re: ipaQ H2200 + CF card

Benjamin Priestman wrote:
> I struggled for a while with booting from a CF card and concluded that it
> just doesn't work with some types of card. I had the same problem booting
> via Haret and when booting from a filesystem on the card. If I remember
> correctly, sys logs from early in the boot process show that the device is
> not recognised by the kernel at that stage, although it works fine once
> Familiar is fully booted (from some other media).
> 
> I'd suggest you use a card that someone else has reported success with or
> else switch to SD. SD cards seem to work fine.
> 
> Ben Priestman

Second that. And it's not specific to h2200. Though I may be completely 
out of league right now, I faintly remember that a few years ago when I 
tested Haret-booting on different hardware none of them booted from CF 
unless I used an rdimage that Haret could load from the vfat partition. 
But the CF became invisible as soon as the kernel loaded so even with rd 
rootswitching failed. Thought it had something to do with changes in 
ide-driver in later than 2.6.?? kernels, but I never followed up. Was 
easier to boot from SD or even NFS.

M.


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Clovis C
> Sent: 26 August 2008 18:34
> To: Fafler; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Familiar] ipaQ H2200 + CF card
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the input, I tried that, but still nothing...
> I don't think there's something wrong with my ext2 partition or my image; I
> tried with the /boot image, I re-partitionned and re-formated twice, and
> since I sent that log file, I replaced Haret-0.5.1 with the last one
> (haret-20080726f.exe) from http://handhelds.org/~koconnor/haret/.
> 
> I don't know what else to try...
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