Archive

Posts Tagged ‘Treo 650’

Treo 650 : Running on Linux

November 14th, 2007 KaiJern No comments

The reason i start this project is because. My Treo 650 died. Not really died, Just that the speaer doesn’t work anymore.

Showdowtime used to be the lead team to make Linux runs on Treo 650, but the project has been take over by hackndev now a days.

Started the testing few days ago. To make it work is near to nightmare. For some reason, follow the tutorial blindly did not bring me to anywhere. After the kernel boot up, it just show kernel panic. File not Found … yeah !!

Testing this like a mad dog. Lots of people claims that they can run Linux on Treo.
Was following hackndev and mikeasoft.com’s blog. Dosen’t seems to get much success from there.

After some changes to linuxrc inside initrd.gz, my luck seems to be much more better. After rebuilding few different version of initrd.gz , I finally got my Treo 650 running on Linux..

Screen Shot / Tutorial ?

Read more…

Categories: Code Tags: ,