Pdaxrom 1.1.0beta 4 And New Bootloader

[willgan]

any new update for C1000?

[wrc4]

Just noticed that things got updated in http://mail.pdaxrom.org/download/1.1.0beta...us-7x0-860/new/ 
Is there anything specially updated or fixed not just for the previous 7x0-860 version but also for the Cxx00 one?   

And for this in the blog:

U-Boot buttons during power-up:
[OK] - emergency system
[1] - pass to kernel: root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 (root filesystem on SD/MMC card)
[2] - pass to kernel: root=/dev/hda1 (root filesystem on CF, need special kernel)
[3] - pass to kernel: root=/dev/hdc1 (root filesystem on HD, need special kernel)

Just to play safe, is [3] the option for installing to internal flash (= HD)?

Anyhow thanks for your great effort again! Hope we can see the long-awaited Beta5 soon!
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I tried the new beta4 a little but some fatal errors still exist (on SL-7500C). My 7500 often power off suddenly without any cause. I guess the battery/charging function has some problem.

Once I managed to get into X and most functions are still the same.

Anyway, I'm interested in the multi-boot funtion of the new u-boot. Could I boot beta1 or Cacko from SD (Does the kernel have to be the same)? Can anybody post a guide of how this can be done?

[scoutme]

sashz, is there any update in sl-c860 beta4?

I'd like a new stable release, I cannot use my zaurus anymore, and I don't want to leave pdaxrom family, since pdaxrom is the only rom that fits my needs

[louigi600]

Sashz has released some new beta4 stuff:
http://mail.pdaxrom.org/node/107

Downloads avalible from:
http://mail.pdaxrom.org/download/1.1.0beta...us-7x0-860/new/

Summery:
U-Boot buttons during power-up:
[OK] - emergency system
[1] - pass to kernel: root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 (root filesystem on SD/MMC card)
[2] - pass to kernel: root=/dev/hda1 (root filesystem on CF, need special kernel)
[3] - pass to kernel: root=/dev/hdc1 (root filesystem on HD, need special kernel)

Regards
David

[scoutme]

thx for the hint. Have you tried this release?

[iczer3]

Hi there,

have installed the new beta 4.
The battery problem still persists so cannot resume without reboot.

Anyone know how to slove the battery problem ?

BR,

Felix.

[louigi600]

thx for the hint. Have you tried this release?
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Very little testing so far on the rom but I've already widely used the new u-boot features.
I've recompiled it to make use of 2 and 3 to boot from mmcblk0p2 and mmcblk0p3
I have a modified emergency system booting from ext3 on mmcblk0p1 and I'm working to have the beta4 system booting from mmcblk0p2 so that I can modify it while still being able to boot unmodified version from onboard flash.

Since the freeze on suspend I thing is dew to something done during the rc5 level stuff I hope to be able to debug the exact origin.
I have in any case reproduced the problem on the emergency system:
boot to emerg,
halt
press "power on" button. This seqience produces the same blinking cursor that I see when I try to suspend (by pressing "power on" button on running system).

Regards
David

[louigi600]

Not 100% relevent to this thread ... but since I mentioned above...

I think the freeze on suspend ia a problem bound to my pda:
I have avoided loading the whole sound module stack (as my c760 produces no sound). Doing this made the freeze on suspend problem dissapear.

I already noticed that when I enabled the sound widget the pda became inherently slow so generally I muted the sound anyway.
So I pretty sure that the problem is bound to my hardware.

Regards
David

[Osage]

Hi,

How can I install beta3 (initrd.bin updater.sh tools.tar)
using u-boot?
dd? nandwrite? or recycle sharp bootloader and... ?

I'd like to try beta3 after beta4 and u-boot.
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Report on beta4 impressions:
i've installed u-boot, having both leds (orange and green) flashing.
After that everything went ok.
beta4 misses cardctl, there was no audible sound, some progs behind the icons did not
worked (usb config...), vm menu went out of screen.
No backlight dim / zoom keys worked.
Button suspend is an eyeshot, resume is rather slow.
beta4 could not drove SysOn CF gps card.
Usb gadgets, like mouse, keyboard, netwk adapter worked well.
Internal keyboard worked, extnal usb keyboard failed some keys, eg. up arrow... (labtech ultra-flat).

z: SL-C3200, sd: 1g, 2g, mmc: 256m CF: 1g, worked all of them for u-boot intall.

O.

[newkirk]

Ok, a transcript of a difficult day with my C860.

Following directions in this thread I put the 11 files (incuding md5sums, but I later discovered I was using files from July26, not the most recent ones) on my 256mb Lexar CF and started the process.  

After installing Uboot, it failed to reboot (never finished going down).  

Forcing the issue, I finally got it to boot to the Uboot emergency shell, and nothing.   Around this time I realize the date disparity and download the newest files.  mkfs.msdos and copy the files over again, still the same.

I poke around the emergency shell and get a segfault when it tries to access the CF.  Ugly.  

So I yank the 128mb CF from my camera, reformat, and try with that one.  Nada.  

Third time's the charm - I reformat my ext3 SD card (256mb /home) and put the files on it, and the emergency system recognizes and installs the new system.

Now, Uboot and the emergency system still have a problem, can't handle CF.  

OK, I can boot the new system.  And it seems to recognize my Socket WiFi, and my Ambicom WiFi, and my Billionton Bluetooth CF cards.  (the toolbar applet has reasonably accurate names for them)  But it's unable to work with any of them, and 'cardctl' cannot be found.  (although eject from the toolbar applet works)  Bluetooth gives me 'Can't get DUN info' trying to set up BT dialup.  The LAN&WiFi tool keeps defaulting to profile 'none' even though I created one named 'wifi' successfully.

'control' and 'alt' keys, which input tool tells me are already mapped to 'calendar' and 'address' keys, are all hinky - they're clearly NOT mapped to those keys...  And my up-arrow doesn't work in mc, but works in plain console? (ctrl and alt are broken both places)

1 - How do I reflash the Uboot to correct it's CF issues?

2 - During reformat of the internal flash, Uboot found a bad block around 72% through, and worked around it.  How concerned should I be for longer-term survival of the internal flash?

3 - How do I get at least one of the wifi cards working?  It seems that bluez isn't installed in the basic image, so I'm presuming that I need to pull the packages from feed for bluetooth. But what about cardctl??

4 - What about Ctrl, Alt, and Up?  I've tried using mc's builtin key configurator, and it is unable to recognize when I press 'up', even though 'up' correctly cycles through the console history??

j

[louigi600]

Hi,

How can I install beta3 (initrd.bin updater.sh tools.tar)
using u-boot?
dd? nandwrite? or recycle sharp bootloader and... ?

I'd like to try beta3 after beta4 and u-boot.
---------------------
Report on beta4 impressions:
i've installed u-boot, having both leds (orange and green) flashing.
After that everything went ok.
beta4 misses cardctl, there was no audible sound, some progs behind the icons did not
worked (usb config...), vm menu went out of screen.
No backlight dim / zoom keys worked.
Button suspend is an eyeshot, resume is rather slow.
beta4 could not drove SysOn CF gps card.
Usb gadgets, like mouse, keyboard, netwk adapter worked well.
Internal keyboard worked, extnal usb keyboard failed some keys, eg. up arrow... (labtech ultra-flat).

z: SL-C3200, sd: 1g, 2g, mmc: 256m CF: 1g, worked all of them for u-boot intall.

O.
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I've suggested a reasonable attempt on how to use beta1 with uboot [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20401]here[/url] ... I guess you could do the same for beta3.

no cardctl in beta4 ... try pccardctl.

[Martin]

Hi all,

yes I wnat to try Beta4 with u-boot on my nice c860 but got terible dipressed (near to throw my c860 out of the window!) ... ok, not really ;-)

I tried everything to flash u-boot ... wrote some comments and threads ... btu I could not flash u-boot ... Beta 2 works well on my c860 and I am able to flash origial SHARP Rom and OZ with GPE, works fine but I want to have pdaXrom on it ...

NAND restore / backup works well to get back to my working Beta2 :-) but why am I not able to get u-boot working? CF / SD is well formated with FAT16 (tried it with or without partitioning)

trying to flash u-boot with this dammed D + C keys gives me only blinking green / yellow ...

Full Flash erase runs ok and Full Flash test says ok (no partition data found with other test - ok I think!)

try to use CF update from servicemenu ( D + M) says "Model error!" ... read some threads

No I'm very helpless ... I opened my c860 looking for the fuses to charge and power my Z. Looking for the connectors plug inside Z (thought there is a connecting problem, because sometimes my Z makes some problems - nothing!)

many many many THX to everybody who has a little hint foer me
Martin

[newkirk]

OK, I'm giving up on Beta4 for now. I'm tired of fighting to get wifi and bluetooth working, (and losing)  not to mention frustrated at keyboard snafus - like 'up' not working correctly, and 'a' (or for that matter, scrolling) not working on console after exiting X.

But the only NAND backup for the C860 I can find on my home network is the original Japanese Sharp rom.

And the downloads section at Conics.net is down for another week.

Where can I find a NAND backup that I can flash back onto my C860 (preferably a newer English one, ideally a Pdaxrom one), and how do I do that now with the Uboot deal, is it still the same?

j

[adf]

a- check tisoft

b- just flash the japanese rom then upgrade to cacko?


c-do b but flash to pdaxrom beta3?

[InSearchOf]

I say Option "c"  :-)

Late