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RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
- From: "Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey dot Hicks at compaq dot com>
- To: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico at cam dot org>,"Gary Thomas" <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Noel J. Bergman" <noel at devtech dot com>, <ipaq at handhelds dot org>,"eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>,"George Saj" <gsaj at acm dot org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:56:35 -0500
- Subject: [ECOS] RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Pitre [mailto:nico@cam.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: Gary Thomas
> Cc: Hicks, Jamey; Noel J. Bergman; ipaq@handhelds.org; eCos
> Discussion;
> George Saj
> Subject: RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
>
>
> On 5 Feb 2002, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > Do you load it to some FLASH address other than the start
> and then run
> > it? I'm just trying to understand the process so we can
> work towards an
> > optimal solution/recommendation.
>
> AFAIK bootldr completely replaces the parot bootloader and can boot
WinCE.
> Redboot is flashed after parot effectively conflicting with the flash
space
> required by WinCE.
>
Exactly. WinCE is not position dependent. The only way to be able to
test a restore or to be able to dual boot (which is desired by many
people) is to replace the parrot firmware and to be able to boot WinCE.
Jamey