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Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: osx4zaurus on June 21, 2005, 05:42:03 pm
I have a new, unmodified, simpad and want to install opensimpad.  I read the various postings here, the old forum, and the opensimpad.org wiki.  What I can't figure out is where to get the hh.org bootloader.  Can someone post a link to the actual file they used?  I'm assuming it is one from handhelds.org but I can't determine which one.  Thanks!
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: JohnKiniston on June 21, 2005, 07:27:09 pm
Is this one of the Simpads from the guy on Ebay who's selling them cheaply?
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: osx4zaurus on June 22, 2005, 12:29:50 am
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Is this one of the Simpads from the guy on Ebay who's selling them cheaply?
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Yes, mine arrived and was in perfect shape.  To answer my own question the  bootloader from hh.org is the blupdater.img
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: albertr on June 22, 2005, 10:13:30 am
I'm flashing my SL4 with Opie image at this very moment! What a terrifying experience to watch how it erases/writes flash blocks...
-albertr
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: albertr on June 22, 2005, 10:18:21 am
Hmm, I've just got:

addr: 01030000 data: F42C26AEpartition <throwaway_bootldr_partition> deleted
RXSTAT error: 000000FF
booting jffs2...
booting boot/zImage from partition >root<
find_inode failed for name=zImage
Failed to find inode
loaded file of size = 0x00000000 at location 0xC0008000
kernel partition base C0008000
kernel_magic=20746573
kernel_region_words[9]=6F6C6264
Unrecognized kernel image
boot command failed, entering monitor
boot>

I guess, I'll have to start over...
-albertr
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: albertr on June 22, 2005, 10:28:18 am
Wow, I'm up and running opie! Thanks to reset, it now boots up.
Screen redraw feels faster than in Windoze (maybe partially due to lack of animation), but anyway it looks and feels faster and prettier.
Thanks to all opie/OZ/OE developers, good job!
-albertr
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: guylhem on June 22, 2005, 11:42:07 am
The only thing I really miss is a good PDF reader. Adobe on wince was much much better even with big documents
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: kurochka on June 22, 2005, 02:12:31 pm
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The only thing I really miss is a good PDF reader. Adobe on wince was much much better even with big documents
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I am still waiting for my Simpad (ground shipping from Arizona takes a long time   ).  While I am waiting, could somebody tell me the adventages of running Open Simpad versus Windowz?  

The disadvantages of Open Simpad appear to be: lack of interest from the developers to update OS; lack of a good pdf reader.  Anything else?
Title: Hh.org Bootloader (where?)
Post by: guylhem on June 24, 2005, 03:23:12 pm
That's all. everthing else is better. But I've head that the 2.6 was working much better, so maybe with graphical accel the pdf stuff will be improved ?