If you are having trouble booting after building an image, it could be that the activate charge time on your SD card is too long. This was the case for me. What worked for me was going to "global reset all settings" in the regular zipit menu. This would do a soft-reset that did not power down the SD card, and thus allowed a boot to linux.
Good Luck, /Hunter
See my zipit postings on hunterdavis.com
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, William Estrada <MrUmunhum@...> wrote:
From: William Estrada <MrUmunhum@...> Subject: Re: [zipitwireless] Z2 preferred toolchain? To: zipitwireless@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 4:47 PM
Sean,
I got it to build once but would not boot up from SD card. Found a link to
a site that had a test configuration but that did not work either!
Sean Lowry wrote:
> Well, I tried the sample structure 'for testing' in the group files
> and that was a swing and a miss. I'll have to revisit it and see what
> wasn't working. Have you tried building a new rootfs using OE or the
> like? I know there are a couple explanations out there on how to use
> OE to at least get a command line linux environment up and running. I
> think openzipit.org <http://openzipit. org> might have had something?
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:58 PM, William Estrada <MrUmunhum@popdial. com
> <mailto:MrUmunhum@popdial. com>> wrote:
>
> Seam,
>
> I hope you have better luck than I had. I tried for a week to get my
> Z2 to boot an
> alternate Linux file system but failed.
>
> If you do succeed, please let me know how you did it.
>
>
> teh.sean wrote:
> > >From what I understand, the best way to open this device up is
> to create a linux build on the mini SD card. What toolchain are
> folks here using to do things with the Zipit Z2? I believe
> Scratchbox, BuildRoot and OpenEmbedded are referenced. Are there
> any benefits to using one over the other?
> >
> > I would like to get the Z2 to do the following:
> > CLI web browsing
> > GUI web browsing (very light, not looking for FF, maybe Links -g
> or Dillo at best)
> > Wireless Detection (Kismet / Wellenreiter)
> > NES / GB emulation (I love some classic RPGs)
> > Jabber chat support
> >
> > Do these goals seem reasonable? Has anyone done something
> similar on the new Zipit?
> >
> > Also, how is hardware support? I've seen in the group that sound
> support was recently added, which is awesome. How is power
> management on the device? Does it support 'standby' mode like the
> actual ZipitOS claims? What is battery life during 'custom' use?
> >
> > One last thing: It looks like the linux.zipitwireless .com
> <http://linux. zipitwireless. com> site is down, and has been for a
> couple days now. Does anyone have their content archived? I signed
> up for an account right before it went offline. . :(
> >
> > Thanks for any and all input!
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------ --------- --------- ------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> William Estrada
> MrUmunhum@popdial. com <mailto:MrUmunhum@popdial. com>
> Mt-Umunhum-Wireless .net ( http://64.124. 13.3 )
> Ymessenger: MrUmunhum
>
>
>
>
> ------------ --------- --------- ------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
> mailto:zipitwireless- fullfeatured@ yahoogroups. com
> <mailto:zipitwireless- fullfeatured@ yahoogroups. com>
>
>
>
>
>
>
From what I understand, the best way to open this device up is to create a linux build on the mini SD card. What toolchain are folks here using to do things...
Seam, I hope you have better luck than I had. I tried for a week to get my Z2 to boot an alternate Linux file system but failed. If you do succeed, please let...
Well, I tried the sample structure 'for testing' in the group files and that was a swing and a miss. I'll have to revisit it and see what wasn't working. Have...
Sean, I got it to build once but would not boot up from SD card. Found a link to a site that had a test configuration but that did not work either! ... -- ...
William, If you are having trouble booting after building an image, it could be that the activate charge time on your SD card is too long. This was the case...
Hunter, I tried three different SD Cards, thinking that was the problem. I finally gave up on the Z2. Too bad, it looked like a good fit for one of my...
Hi, I am the maintainer of the source forge OpenZipit project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openzipit As of this writing I have a 2.6.29 kernel and userland...
Hi -(e) I've been following your zipit progress on your blog, and am interested in trying out your new tree. Did you happen to cache your irc session where...
Hi Sean, I have gone the angstrom/openembedded/bitbake cross compilation route with success. As for your goal list: 1. CLI web browsing This is trivially...
William, Sounds like the build image or your partitioning is probably the issue then. I can dd an image to file for you to download if you are interested. ...
Hunter, That would be great. I will give it another try. Thanks. ... -- William Estrada MrUmunhum@... Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( http://64.124.13.3 ) ...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
Offline 
Send Email