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... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > H2200-port mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/h2200-port _______________________________________________ Haret mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/haret
