HTC-Apache Debian Style

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Hi Everyone,
I am new to this forum and new to smart phones as well. I purchased a used HTC-Apache from Ebay to try to see if I could put Linux on it to use it as a (yes I know slow but) ultra ultra ultra portable PC.

So far through my searching I have managed to get it to boot into Debian (Bash only) once. The keyboard's key map was not correct (obviously) and so I accidentally backed myself into a corner and was forced to reboot. When it came back up into WM6, I ran HaRET (0.5.2) once more but it just hung at jumping to kernel. I could not figure it out... I did not change anything so it should have worked but alas no luck.

After fiddling with it some more I was able to get it to get past that point once more but this time it said there was no mmcblkp1 and listed ram0 - 15(?) I flushing the phone to factory (or kitchen rather) and tried again but it will not get past "jumping to kernel" unless I take the SD card out in which case it only boots to the initrd and can not find tty... because there is no card. I have the Debian root file system on the SD card and it is an SDHC 4Gig Transcend card. I know that SDHC is not supported on this phone but it has worked once before.

So now I am at a standstill hoping someone out there could give me a few pointers. My Linux proficiency is probably somewhere in the beginner to moderate range. THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!

Try http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=43753

Oh yeah.. where are my manners? Here is where I have gotten my files.
HaRET & initrd: http://esc180.midphase.com/~chillaxi/?page_id=268
zImage: I think I am using the one from the link above as well.
Debian rootfs: http://sumou.com/index.php?cmd=%E7%9...d19db89f56ec5d
Start.txt: (yes there is an error in it and it lets me know but I have never had it work when I correct it)
Set kernel "zImage"
Setbmtype "959"
Set cmdline "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootdelay=5 console=tty0 fbcon=rotate:1"
boot2

Thank you very much for the replay but I have been there before which led me eventually to my initrd file for Apache.

Update: When I got home from work today I sat down, ejected the card to make sure the right one was there, re-inserted it, and ran HaRET. It successfully booted into the Debian Linux Shell. I was able to pull some keystrokes out for a custom keymap. When I went and ate dinner it shut down so I tried rebooting it again but it did it's usual "Jumping to Kernel" freeze.