Re: "Can't read control file"

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Paul Eggleton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Darin,
>
> you wrote:
>> Anyone know what would cause the bootloader to give a "Can't read
>> control file" error when trying to install Familiar 0.8.4 from a flash
>> card on an iPaq 3600?
>
> Two other possibilities I can think of?
>
> 1) The battery in the expansion sleeve could be flat, which will stop it
> from being able to read from the card
>
> 2) The card could be too large. Not sure on this last one but I think
> there is a limit to the size of card that the bootloader can deal with.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

1) The files on the card are visible in WinCE, so the expansion sleeve
works fine.

2) I've tried with 4GB and 512MB cards.  I doubt I'll be able to get
my hands on anything smaller than 512 for a few weeks, but when I do
I'll give it a shot.

I asked in #handhelds-familiar on irc.freenode.net, and someone
suggested formatting the card from Windows rather than using mkfs.vfat
in Linux.  I tried that, but it didn't help.  I'll keep tinkering and
post any developments.

I've also been trying to find a way to boot directly from the CF card.
 Is that possible?  If so, how would I go about it?  The only
instructions I've found seem quite outdated and reference a file
called "linux.zip" which should be extracted to the CF card, but I
have yet to find a file by that name on handhelds.org, except one set
of instructions which references it as an old version of
BootBlaster/bootldr, perhaps.
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