Re: ipaQ H2200 + CF card

Well,

I wanted to try with an SD card - I have a 2 GB and a 1GB SD - but none is
recognized by knoppix...(I have a Syntax UCR-61 USB card reader).

So I tried with Haret-0.3.8, because this guy Jack (
http://handhelds.org/hypermail/h2200-port/current/5412.html) was using it
and the same setup as I, with success.
I went as far as the bloodshot eyes, which is some progress, then nothing,
blank screen (until my battery died a couple hours later). I actually forgot
to enable logging but I will retry later with it.
If I still can't get it to work, I 'll probably give Ramdisk Rescue a try,
and if that doesn't work, I'll go to the store and buy a 500MB or 1GB CF, I
guess... BTW my CF is a 1GB Lexar.

On another topic, does anyone have a recommendation for a GPS device?

Clovis

On 8/26/08, Morten Hulden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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