> On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:36:15 +0200, "Paul Sokolovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:

> > Weird. This error is about loopback, but another one - network loopback
> > interface (lo). And not being able to create it means that kernel is
> > severely out of required resources for normal work (memory would be
> > first type of needed resource).

I replied:

> I'll try that now (making a new 'boot bundle') and will report whether it 
> works.
>  I'll hard-reset the Hx4700 as I've been running PocketUAE on it lately and I
> think that it might be using resources.

I've done that and am pleased to say that it boots!  I did the
following:

1. Reformatted the 2GB SD card that I was using.  Before, it was
formatted with two partitions: a 512MB Windows partition (type 'b') and
a 1.5GB ext2 Linux partition.  After, the partitioning was the same but
the Windows partition was type '6' (Windows FAT16, I think) and I
formatted it with 'mkdosfs'.

2. Downloaded the make-bootbundle.py script, HaRET 0.5,
zImage-2.6.21-hh20-r21-hx4700.bin (from
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/autobuild/hx4700/).

I was not able to find a HaRET startup script so I looked through one of
the working boot bundles and grabbed the boot script from it.

cat <<EOF
# initramfs-bootmenu HaRET script
# (c) 2007 Paul Sokolovsky
msgbox "Attention!" "This will boot Linux. All memory will be
overwritten and hard reset will be required to return to Windows Mobile.
You *MUST BACKUP* your data first. Continue booting (Cancel - quit to
make backup)?" 0x40031
if result == 2 exit
set cmdline "rootdelay=3
ip=192.168.2.202:192.168.2.200:192.168.2.200:255.255.255.0:ipaq:usb0
console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 rdinit=/init"
ramboot
EOF

I stuck that all together with:

./make-bootbundle.py -o initramfs-test.exe haret-0.5.exe
zImage-2.6.21-hh20-r21-hx4700.bin
./initramfs-bootmenu-image-hx4700.cpio.gz ./startup.txt.bootimage

.. and copied the output file (initramfs-test.exe) to the Windows
partition on the SD card and executed it.
The boot menu appeared and I chose the GPE X11 root filesystem
(http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/autobuild/hx4700/Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-r19-hx4700.rootfs.img.bz2,
decrunched) and it booted, X started - success.

'uname -a' reports "Linux hx4700 2.6.21-hh20 #1 PREEMPT Tue Nov 25
05:43:23 CET 2008 armv5tel unknown".

Cheers,

Lex.

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