Re: [H2200-port] Re: [Familiar] ipaQ H2200 + CF card

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:16 +0200, Clovis C wrote:
> 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.
> 

This "stab-in-the-dark" approach can easily be fixed with a serial
cable/cradle.


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

A bluetooth one.

> 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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