> Does anyone happen to have a working bitsy kernel and paqdisk? > > I've tried both compiling myself and the kernel/paqdisk that used to be on > nemo's contrib, both to no avail. > > Either way, I get a kernel panic on the iPaq. The various instructions > around on the wiki and such have the user partition too small for the paqdisk > that gets built "out of the box" from a fresh Plan 9 install... so I did > increase the partition sizes accordingly. I'm hoping that's not the > problem...
Hello, I am currently using Plan 9 on a Compaq iPaq h3650. I compiled the kernel and the paqdisk in May 2008 from a current Plan 9. It worked really fine, except with the Wi-Fi. However, I had some problems when uploading the paqdisk on the iPaq when the image file is larger than 4 MB. The image seems to be corrupted during the upload on the iPaq and Plan 9 crash during boot. This problem does not appear with a smaller paqdisk. Also, as you said, If you leave the armpaqproto configuration file as it is, the image file created will be larger than the partition, so you must modify it. In fact, I read in a documentation you cannot easily resize the partition since it is apparently hard coded in the kernel. One of the kernel and paqdisk I made is available on my website [1]. I also put the concerning armpaqproto file online. It was compiled in May 2008. I also tried from old Nemo's and John's [2], and it worked fine too. But they are really old. [1] http://www.9grid.fr/misc/plan9/ipaq_h3650/work-mine [2] http://www.9grid.fr/misc/plan9/ipaq_h3650/work-other -- David du Colombier
