Hello all !
I'm the owner of an iPaq H5450 (or H5500, I can't remember, nothing
written on the device). Back when I received it, I installed familiar
linux, and I was quite happy with it as I could at least use it (gpe &
stuff). Now that familiar is not active anymore, I would really like to
use angstrom, but I've never been able to get something workin correctly :(
Here's what I tried, any comment/help welcome !
- install the images from the angstrom web site. They look a bit old
(2007.12), but as a starting point... :). The LCD starts by displaying
vertical lines, that fade slowly until the screen is homogeneously grey
:( . I can see that everything boots fine from the console, but can't
login as there is no valid shadow file (I guess it's created during
first graphical login?). Tried with console/gpe/x11 images.
- follow the instructions to build my own images from open embedded.
As stated in a recent thread, there's no way to easily get a checkout
corresponding to the 2007.12 images, so I use the stable/2009 as
instructed :) I can get images to build, but gpe-image is too big to fit
in memory. Console images works fine, I can even login.
- I tuned a bit the gpe-image to include less software. I can get an
image that I can flash, but during the boot process, the kernel
complains about being unable to mount rootfs (Kernel panic - not
syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block), like described
on the old wiki for H5550.
- I tried with .dev branch... But still no luck so far.
- I wanted to give a try to narcissius images, but I don't know how to
get something that I can use with my device from the rootfs as a tgz.
- I even tried to reinstall winCE few months ago, to be able to boot
linux from a live image (quicker than flashing again and again), but I
never got anything booting (can't remember the error message, it was
months ago).
It's bit frustrating :/ I would really like to help ! Maybe someone can
give me a few steps I should try to follow ? I'm not even sure that
using the jffs2 image flashed from the bootloader is the best way to go.
(it's not the quickest, for sure).
Any help *very* welcome :)
Marc
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