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Re: How to install Bootloader



Hi Rupin,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rupin Chheda <rupin.chheda@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a device which is running WinCE currently,and i need to get Linux on
> this device.It runs ARM 926EJ-S with 64 MB Ram..The device only has one USB
> host and one USB Slave..
> The issue that I face is that I am not able to halt the bios on this
> device,so that I could actually coax it to open a serial terminal so that I
> could install from the USB stick.Is it the way we halt bioses on normal
> machine by pressing the del key?

Check out HARET : http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET
It will let you boot Linux from CE. Its more of a temporary solution
to play around with it.
I haven't used this myself but I've heard good things about it.

Alternatively If you have access to the microsoft boot loader (called
eboot) and a network connection (the way you normally upload CE images
during dev) I have written a couple of python scripts that:
1) convert a standard linux zImage into something eboot can understand
2) upload to the device over the network (basically glorified TFTP) from linux.

They're not online at the moment but I could make them available if
anyone is interested.

> Also,before I format and go to the next step,What kind of a GUI does
> embdebain support on such a hardware configuration?.WinCE is running pretty
> well on this, with the Touchscreen working well, so my guess is there would
> be support for a native display manager...
>
You'll need two things:
1) A working kernel framebuffer driver for your hardware (you don't
say what it is) Do you know the actual chip? (ARM 926EJ-S is just the
CPU core). Usually such devices use a SoC containing an arm core and
common peripherials (display controller, USB, ...) such as i.MX21,
iMX27, PXA..
2) Touchscreen support

Once that's available emdebian has GPE (a stripped down gnome) :
http://gpe.handhelds.org/

Martin


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