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HaRET don't bootup linux :(

Hello ,
I'm a newbie and have used the introductions on http://wiki.xda-developers.com/wiki/HimalayaLinuxBooting to boot linux on my himalaya. Unfortunatily the pops up dialog "Launch a script file. Default ..." when i tap on HaRET-0.3.2d.exe . I can't connect to port 9999, too.
Please Help me
Thanks

Hi snowdrop,
the dialog means that your prepared scriptfile hasn´t been found and executed. This could be because you misspelled the name. Keep in mind that all filenames have a 3-letter extension which is not visible in windows. I.e. if your FileExplorer says "startup.txt" the filename is "startup.txt.txt".
Or maybe you installed the startup script in a different directory than HaRET. IMHO it´s easiest to install all 4 files (haret, startup, kernel, initrd) in a separate dir unter \Storage where you don´t have to reinstall it after a reboot.
Don´t hesitate to ask further if this doesn´t anwer your question.
Matthias

Hallo noone,
thanks for your reply. I copied all neccessary file under "\Storage Card\". The filename is "setup.txt" (the filexplorer says startup without extention but i'm sure it is named startup.txt through my activesync under Windows). All files are under "\Storage Card\", (also the HaRET-0.3.2d.exe and startup.txt files). :roll:
Greets

Hi snowdrop,
I'm not really sure about that. It works for me all the time.
Maybe you can track down the problem with a network connection. You have to disable ActiveSync on your host PC and to start a connection with SynCE. This requires usbserial and ipaq as well as ppp loaded into the kernel. When you cradle the himalaya you should get a message from usbserial about the attached device (usually /dev/ttyUSB0).
After synce-serial-configure (root), dccm (user) and synce-serial-start (root) the Himalaya should display the connection sign in the bottom bar. Be careful: ActiveSync on the Himalaya may or may not try to start a GPRS session. This can become expensive sometimes
After establishing the PPP connection from PC to Himalaya you connect to port 9999 (refer to SynCE's documentation about the IP addresses). Then you can enter the commands of the startup.txt script line by line.
HTH
Matthias

Hello Matthias,
what is SynCE? I'm using Windows as host PC.
Are synce-serial-configure (root), dccm (user) and synce-serial-start Linux Tools??? :?:
Thanks

Ok,
i after some hard work (and hardware reset), i'm now able to see the penguin(with red eyes and red thermometer) . But then nothing will be done
Actually I thought, that there is also a graphical user interface for linux. Now my question:
Do you ONLY remote login into your linux and have JUST a console application? Or have you also GUI applications and a desktop under linux for himalaya at the time.
Thanks for your answers

it will of cause never run any linux applications not compiled for it
like windows CE will not run pc windows applications
if you can find a kernel compiled for it
you can use it otherwise you'll have to compile your own
the same goes for a version of x11 and any other applications you may wish to run
though in the world of linux sourcecode is much easier to come but and compile yourself then they are under windows

Hi,
can you give some usefull links about linux application on PDA?
I want too much to run linux under my himalaya .

havent really messed with it
here is another distro for xda not sure if he ever got finished with it
http://www.pigeond.net/photos/xda-linux/
havent kept up on it really
what you have to look for is pretty much
applications for the arm cpu
and you can also look for linux of ipaq and other pda's which use the arm cpu they would also run on the xda
but i havent really kept up todate about the whole project
so i dont know how long any of the project have gotten
and i dont know how many applications can be portet because of graphical limits in the desktop manager like glib
but i'm sure there must be others in this forum who mess around with these things

Maybe the guys at handhelds.org could give you some more info, got lots of help getting linux running on my ipaq 5550 (never quite got it working to my liking though)

Using haret with local loopback

Hi everyone,
i'm not sure if this should be posted here or someone did it before.
So please delete this thread if this is a known fact or does not belong here
During experiments with haret on various platforms, i thought about a simple method to get access to the haret console without the need of a host computer.
There's a little trick to make this work:
Every device with some networking features has a loopback IP-address.
The IP of this "network device" is 127.0.0.1 and can be used to access haret console locally, right on your mobile device.
1. Start a version of haret suitable for your mobile device.
2. Tap on the button "Listen for network connection".
3. Start a telnet client on your device (e.g pocketputty).
4. Connect to 127.0.0.1:9999.
That's it!
Works perfect with my hermes and universal, when i'm on the road and need to verify of some internal settings or some register settings
I hope this maybe helpful for anyone.
Cheers,
scholbert

scholbert said:
3. Start a telnet client on your device (e.g pocketputty).
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you may provide a link to the putty .cab file here

It would be nice to at least tell the ignorant ones wtf is haret...

Hi,
thanks for the remarks!
So here's the pocketputty cab.
Have a look for updates here:
http://www.pocketputty.net/
aiiro said:
It would be nice to at least tell the ignorant ones wtf is haret...
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O.K. nice entry
HaRET stands for Handheld Reverse Enginering Tool.
Have a look here to get deeply involved:
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET
It may be used to debug and do other investigation on settings in the processor's registers, as well as start some binaries other than wince or winmob applications on windows based devices.
One of it's common purpose is to start a linux kernel on your mobile device for the first time (and much more often afterwards ).
At least it's mainly used by linux developers to check out what has to be done and set to make a linux kernel boot on your device!
Best regards,
scholbert

Haret and Linux Problem

I have the following problem: I use normal HaRET startup configuration options (like those in "HTC Sable Progress" page) and stable Linux kernel, but HaRET just can't run it - it goes until the stage when it writes "Jumping to kernel..." and then the screen remains black... So, what am I doing wrong? Actually, I'm searching for the way to run Linux on my IPaq HW6915 without reflashing bootloader, so if you know how to run Linux from HaRET on something like 6915/Sable, your help is highly appreciated...

XDU said:
I have ... stable Linux kernel ...
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What is stable linux kernel ?

I tried many kernels from hh.org and xda howtos/docs/wikis. Can you point me to the kernel and HaRET that could really startup 6915 at some time in the past?

XDU said:
I tried many kernels from hh.org and xda howtos/docs/wikis. Can you point me to the kernel and HaRET that could really startup 6915 at some time in the past?
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Ok, i'll ty to compile a copy and test it.

Is there any activity on Linux for iPaq 69xx
I've searched everywhere I can think of but can't find a boot image to use with Haret on the iPaq 6910. All the pages I find, have dates that are really old.....
Can anyone shed any light or direction on this?
Thanks in advance for your help.....

Linux and PDA

Hi,
after long time without a PDA i bought me a Vodafone Compact IV. It's a great Pocket PC, since it store the timezone and date i entered when shutting down . But i really don't want to use WM anymore. It runs WM 6.1 original.
How do i get into the Flashing things? Where on the WIki are some instructions for it? When i had my wizard i had to know if it is G3 or G4, i had to read some stuff like ISPL or something. But where is a beginnerfriendly tutorial? Then the next is, how do i get Linux working on the device? I know about a tool to dualboot WM/Android. And i also found threads which explain how to run Android from SD card. At first i have to know how to start. That's why i need to know about the flashing.
Is there a bootable Linux image? It's okay for me, to delete the WM Partition, but is this possible? Is there anyone working on?
Might it be a problem that i am on Linux with my Desktop PC? :-/. I could use OSX too, but i don't want to get back to windows.
I hope there are some out, who know my situation. Please excuse my imperfect english
edit: it actually doesn't need to be Android. I would be happy about a working Linux system with package manager. There doesn't need to be X11 and the stuff. But, of course, a Desktop environment would be great
edit2: okay i got a HardSPL'ed device know i am flahsing with SD-card. Thats very nice. Is there a Linux Image out there, which i cann install via SD-card and that runs instead of WM????

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