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Cxx0 General discussions / Partition Sd 4gig - Hmmm

« on: October 26, 2006, 07:26:27 am »

I have a 4gig no-name brand. I partitioned it the same way you did and it works except for the 1.1g dos partition doesn't work thru my external card reader. It does work if I use a CF adapter and put it in the CF reader.

The ext2 partition probably doesn't work because of the block size. There was another thread here that stated you could 'mke2fs -b 1024 /dev/mmcda2' and it works, at least for me.

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General Discussion / I Mounted A 2 Gig Sd Card!

« on: February 24, 2006, 11:11:43 am »

Thanks. This works.
As long as there is only one partition/filesystem its OK.

I did a little more testing.
 
I have two partitions. A vfat and an ext2. The ext2 is running Pocketworkstation which I mount and start using Icons.

After a suspend the filesystems/mounts are messed up.

Why would the filesystems have to umount on suspend anyway? Does home umount?

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General Discussion / I Mounted A 2 Gig Sd Card!

« on: February 16, 2006, 08:14:18 am »

Does the filesystem get garbled on suspend?

Thats the prob I had. If your scripts help that, please post. I tried all kinds of things.
 There was a post about the line with all the mount options, but I didn't see them in the sdiomgr script. All I saw was the line with uid and gid options.

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General Discussion / Change Zimage.bin

« on: January 30, 2006, 08:23:56 am »

I read in the SL-3000 HOWTO (near the end) about a small configuration that seems to work for the c860.

Hear is what I'm doing.
 I used nand-extract.pl to rip apart the NAND backup.
 
 Renamed the *P2.RAW file (root) to myinitrd.
   ( could also boot using the DB trick and dd the mtd2 part)
 
 Did all of the modprobe stuff to get the JFFS2 mounted.
   (I used the info from /proc/mtd to figure out the total_size for the mtdram)
   ( I don't think it matters. I'll try it later)
 
 Make any changes I need or want.
 
 Run mkfs.jffs2 -o newinitrd -e16k -r /mnt/directory
   ( I used the mkfs.jffs2 from the c860-rootfs file,found elsewhere in the forum)
 
 Use the initrd.bin from card_update_c860. ( could also use cacko, pdaXrom?) to extract the  next info.

   From the sl3000 howto doc.
     Run 'head -c 16 initrd.bin > header'
     (Then rename initrd.bin to something.)
     Run 'cat header newinitrd > initrd.bin

I don't get why, but the 16 byte version header needs to be added to the front.Still digging into things for this.

Then I flashed just the initrd.bin using the updater.sh script.  

There are probably other ways, but this works for me. Just don't over shoot the size limit.

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General Discussion / Change Zimage.bin

« on: January 29, 2006, 10:22:05 am »

Nevermind. I figured it out.
Now for some ROM modding.

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General Discussion / Change Zimage.bin

« on: January 28, 2006, 11:07:56 am »

I couldn't find a good places to post this. But this seems OK. I didn't want to start a new topic.

Well here it goes.

Why can't I get my custom rom to boot?

I have been trying to get a custom rom built for my c860. I'm trying to use the 'card_update_c860' files.

My experiance:
 I have compiled my own kernel and can flash it with no problems.
 I have flashed OZ, pdaXrom, and have updated to 1.4JP.
 I've restored from NAND many times.
 I can mount the initrd.bin on my linux boxes. (fc4, debian-sarge,woody and such, mandrake, and others) using

modprobe mtdram total_size=65535 (could this be the issue?)
modprobe mtdblock
modprobe jffs2
dd if=initrd.bin of=/dev/mtdblock0
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 /mymountpoint
cd /mymountpoint

 I'm using the build.sh and mkfs.jffs2 files from rootfs-slc860-20031107.tar and a initrd.bin is created.
 I have used different updater.sh files including the on from 'card_update_c860'.
 I can also boot into console only and run the extract.sh to get the mversion.bin,roflsys.bin and such.
 
I have searched the forum using 'initrd' and have read everything all the back to 2003.

Yes, I know I can remount rw on the Z and make changes that way, but I'd like to know how to roll my own rom.

Bascially a learning experience.

By the way,I can change/flash a rom on the 5500 with no problems.

OT: How did you ROM folks change the maintre.bin file to fix the 64M limit?

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General Discussion / I Mounted A 2 Gig Sd Card!

« on: January 26, 2006, 08:14:08 am »

So anything linking to the card will cause this I guess. I have some PSC catalogs linked to the card.
 And Pocket Workstation is going to be a problem. Runs great though. Its a little slower, but not much.
I'll try to fiddle with the scripts again.

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General Discussion / I Mounted A 2 Gig Sd Card!

« on: January 25, 2006, 02:06:44 pm »

I noticed a problem. It was a critical issue for me.
Can someone verify? If you suspend, the card becomes unstable. I tried to copy a file to the card after a suspend/resume and ended up with IO errors. It happend with either the 1GB or the 2GB ( I would suspect with any other) and with vfat and worse with ext2.
 If you create an ext2 filesystem and you suspend/resume the card disapears although it shows as mounted using the mount command.
 I tried messing with the sdiomgr and sdio scripts. Didn't work.

C860 with orignal sharp ROM.

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General Discussion / I Mounted A 2 Gig Sd Card!

« on: January 20, 2006, 07:25:20 am »

YES!
Finally!
 My C860 works. Fdisked into vfat and ext2 partitions.I had to change the block size per above for the the ext2, but it works great ( so far).

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X/Qt / I'm flabbergasted!!

« on: November 28, 2004, 09:54:09 am »

Nevermind. Found it.
Yesterday wasn't my day to find anything.
thanks

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X/Qt / I'm flabbergasted!!

« on: November 28, 2004, 09:49:12 am »

Yep, Looked there.
Looking for the 'gtk' one to run on Xqt. Oh well. Maybe I'm wasting my time. Does firefox for the z even work with Gmail? Thats my goal,anyway.

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X/Qt / I'm flabbergasted!!

« on: November 27, 2004, 05:18:10 pm »

OK.
Where is this "firefox_0.9gtk_armv5tel.ipk"? I can't find it in the feeds. Am I too late? Did I miss the boat?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gmail Storage on Zaurus?

« on: November 21, 2004, 09:53:47 am »

OK, I started messing with this. I figured I would try it on my Fedora2 box, and it works.
 I tried it on the Z with pocket workstation and everything went fine until the loading of the module.

 I tried compiling the module anyway I could including onboard PW, but it just wouldn't work. I can compile the c-860 kernel and also the example QT that comes with the cross compiler on my Fedora box. I haven't tried the pdaXromSDK yet, but I don't think it will matter.

 Anybody have any clues as to how I can get the module to compile correctly?

 Everything seems to compile, but when I load the module I get the error "cannot determine the kernel the module was compiled for". When I do a 'file fuse.o', it tells me its the ARM version.

 This has got to be doable.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Making a drive image

« on: November 10, 2004, 09:20:54 am »

"cp -a" from the comand line should do the trick. (without quotes). This acts like xcopy.

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Software / Fax software for Z?

« on: September 30, 2004, 10:21:18 am »

Try here.
http://www.iaccarino.de/silvio/zfax.htm

It works great for receiving and sending on bothe the 5500 and c860. You'll have to get a different tiff viewer to see the received faxes. Also change the port to ttyS3 for the modem in the settings icon.