HTC Wizard and linux

[mosfet]

Hi,

I am developper and I have a HTC Wizard.
I already have some experience in pocket PC development and I would like to install linux on my HTC.
The problem is I cannot even send command through a terminal.
I read a tutorial about how I can boot into "boot mode" (Press Power+Recording and after I can see the gradients color).
After I start a terminal application and I choose USB but I never got a prompt.
I don't undertand because I tried with different terminals and I have checked that ActiveSync is disabled.
What am i doing wrong ???
If some HTC wizard and Linux guru were here, maybe they could help me to start.

[tsiros]

I am trying to do this, as well. But from what i understand it is VERY difficult.

to BOOT linux, you need 2 things: a kernel that can run on the omap and a program that will LOAD the kernel.

the omap has an arm926 processor. the omap is a cpu+other things.

to boot the kernel we need something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin
also we have to find a way to make the kernel show some output:
1. serial
2. lcd
also some input.
1. serial
2. keyboard

we have to compile an arm kernel and we have to find a way to boot that kernel. i have slackware linux on my laptopand i am trying to make arm simple kernel

the bootloader i can start, but i can not find a way to talk to it. i have searched and asked but i have not found anything. i am angry! i want to remove the bootloader it does not do anything! argh!

please if you are serious about this, tell me in an email or a personal message (PM)[/url][/list][/list]

[tsiros]

look at this! http://garux.sourceforge.net/

[TheBrit]

Look at Xanadux on this forum's wiki. It might give you some clues as to the way forward. You could join in the effort. 8)

[mosfet]

look at this! http://garux.sourceforge.net/

I know all this, what I just want to know is how to interact with my HTC in boot mode because if I cannot even send command how could I install a boot loader. I am trying to do things in steps.

The first one is to understand how I can dialog with HTC...

[ady]

Use mtty and press enter to get a prompt.

[htcblaze]

I noticed someone out there has tried to make a lcd driver for the omap850. We need to know more about the device.

[tsiros]

i do not think we need an lcd driver. we need only find the address of the framebuffer. i do not know... :/

[chipzer]

Tried to install.....cannot even login.

How do I get the Hyper Terminal to talk to my Himalaya connect to my Windows XP using USB ?

[htcblaze]

dare i say we skip the cruddy boot loader and explore the possabilities of a jtag connection?

[ithamar]

Hello,

Please check http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=49560 for another approach in getting Linux to run on the Wizard!

Ithamar.

[Maui]

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