Faq j700
From JLiMe.com
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About
Here is a collection of our most frequent questions regarding JLime and our machines. This one is specific regarding the HP Jornada 700-series and our support.
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Hardware Questions
- 1.1: Q. Can I remove Wince from my HP Jornada 700?
A. Wince is contained within a ROM chip which means that you can
never remove Wince. Only way to get a truly 100% Linux system would
be to replace the ROM with a new so called flashrom. Such flashroms
are being produced and can be orderd on our webpage.
- 1.2 Q. Will pcmcia card X work with my jornada?
A. Generally all 16-bit cards should work. 32-bit will never work.
To get information or suggestion of cards, please look at
pcmcia list
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Software Questions
- 2.1 Q. Will I retain my data from wince when I install/Run JLime?
A. When you start JLime the RAM will be cleared and all settings
and data contained in the RAM will be deleted.
Anything saved to the Compactflash card will not be affected.
- 2.2 Q. Im getting Please append a correct root= boot option kernel panic - not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknobwn block (0,0)
A. This is a common issue that basicly means that your compactflash card
isnt in the kernel code (and therefore isnt identified properly).
Please contact developers and supply your Brand and Size.
We will then see if the card is supported in other kernels
and if so we can easily make it supported for the kernel you
are using.
There are different ways to obtain the idstrings if they are
not in any previous version of the kernel.
1) Bootup a linux laptop with pcmcia slot, connect an pcmcia->CF adapter
to the non-working CF card. Do lsusb do read the information.
2) Bootup your jornada with an initrd for filesystem and check /proc and /sys for information.
3) Bootup with 2.4 and try and extract info from there.
- 2.3 Q. Why does jlime not support all the compact flash cards by default? Ive never had these issues on my linux desktop!!"#%¤"#¤
A. Well, there is a difference between mounting a CF card as a
flashmemory or trying to run it as your harddrive! Since we in essence
are emulating a real harddrive on our CF cards the kernel has to be
abit more picky in what it accepts. It wants to make damn sure
that the CF is truly a storage card and not a device.
