Hi Ok I'll give some more information about my setup, since I realized that my original post might be confusing.
I have an H3955 iPAQ. If I use the stable 2007.12 liveramdisk, it just works. If I try the loopback setup from that same release using Angstrom-boot-2.6.21-hh20-r6-h3900.exe and Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-h3900.rootfs.img.bz2, it also just works. What I tried to do and failed was to boot an unstable image made with Narcissus, using Angstrom-boot-2.6.21-hh20-r6-h3900.exe first. It froze on pslash. I then used HaReT 0.5.2 to boot the same image's rootfs (in initrd form), but passing the kernel command "pslash=false". All of this is done using an SD card with a single FAT partition, since I understand that this is a loopback config that somehow loads the ext2 filesystem in RAM... This is the attempt that failed with a *uinput* module failure, since that is the last message that appeared on the console. I have a CF sleeve and a 512MB CF card that I used sometime ago to install Familiar 0.8.4. I no longer have that distro installed; my ROM contains a WinCE 2003 OS and the Cambridge bootloader. I am not flashing the Angstrom image, as I said before I'm trying loopback configs only. I attempted to boot the live loopback image from the CF card, but apparently the kernel used to boot Angstrom this way does not have support for the sleeve. Also, booting from the SD card using a liveram image, Angstrom does not recognize the CF sleeve. 2010/3/25 Jon Foster <[email protected]>: > Anyhow this may be part of the issue. The freeze during during the > splash screen symptom I have seen most commonly caused by a kernel and > module set mismatch. On the hx4700 you flash the kernel separately. So > on occasion I've gone to the package browser, found the kernel package > that matches the modules in the image, used "ar" to extract the kernel > image and then flashed that onto my device. This has allowed me to get > booting. That is an interesting idea. Maybe the best way would be to preserve the working bits from 2007.12 and to update just the userland part; I doubt sound and battery drivers would be developed for the 2.6.x h3900 kernel, so there's not much gained from updating it. I'll keep researching alternatives. Hope this new info provides additional insight. _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
