Has anyone else had a hell of a time getting pdaxrom installed on their C750/700?
I do not understand the problem, but it appears to have something to do with the flash repartitioning.
I tried about 100X to flash RC9 (I had cacko 1.22 before.) and the repartition and flashing seemed to work w/o error, but then the Z would just sit at the Please Wait.. .screen forever.
However, RC 9 installed perfectly after I used cacko 1.22 installer to do the repartitioning and, after shutting down (by removing the battery after reboot), flashing
RC 9.
But my suggestion is that maybe there does not need to be so much stuff preinstalled in the root filesystem? Why not make that image smaller and let people install stuff (to SD or CF) with the feed, which works very well? Big SD cards are cheap.
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single big root partitions rock that's why (I agree the default pdaXrom should strip out all the extra apps and stuff it now includes by default, BTW)
of course using an SD card is fine as well, although using hdparm it shows that it is a little faster to load apps from internal NAND than over the SD serial interface, and you don't have to deal with some stuff stored internally and some stuff on SD (which can cause problems when the card is removed.)
it can be a little tricky getting a single partition working on a C750 -- I worked with Ashley way back when to get this figured out -- see the thread on this here: [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3361]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3361[/url], it details everything you need to know to get this work. the problem you are having is that the C750 kernels (both Sharp and pdaXrom) don't support large flash partitions (greater than ~45MB) the C760 kernel is compatible with the C750, and it doesn't have the flash size limitation.
when reading the above thread, the thing to keep in mind now is that the pdaXrom 1.1 RCx pdaXrom C760 kernel won't work as a maintenance kernel (the device hangs on maintenance boot.) so instead I use the vanilla Sharp C760 kernel for the maintenance kernel on the C750, and use a customized version of Ashely's latest script for flashing the 1.1 RCx releases (although Ashley's should work). use the pdaXrom C760 kernel for your "main" kernel and flash as normal, and you're all set. this is pretty easy to do as you can simply untar the pdaXrom tools.tar and symlink/replace the C750 kernel with the C760 kernel, and retar, before installing.
note that if you aren't comfortable with reflashing the maintenance kernel (this can easily soft-brick your device, requiring C+D NAND image recovery) then you probably shouldn't try increasing the root partition size.
