Installing Linux and GPE from a CF card on the e740

[spyro]

Originally posted by Nomad_2K4
Installing and running Linux and GPE from a Compact Flash (CF) card on e740

Hi.

Thanks for this, its something we've needed for a while.

Can I put it on the e7xx pages?

onep oint - check the params file - the e750 wont be reliable without cachepolicy=writethrough, not because of the PXA250 problems, but because of some assumptions in the linux IDE layer. The symptoms will be random crashing of processes.

[dhughes]

Interesting. I just came back here to see if there was any info on putting Linux on my piece-of-junk e740.

I haven't tried it yet.

Is this like a "LiveCD" or a "LiveCF" rather?

What size compact flash is needed, all I have is a 32MB one.

[dkuntz]

I was just wondering if anyone here has seen the Lycrois distro that they're working on. I saw it in this month's "Mobile Computing" magazine.

Lycoris Desktop/LX Pocket PC Edition

Seems there are some companies working on a commercial PPC Linux distro... but of course.. it's for the.. iPaq and Zaurus handhelds.

I emailed them to see if they had any plans for a Toshiba version...which, it being Linux and all, if they did, most of it (other than proprietary stuff of course) could be tweaked into a free distro.

Doug

[Dromio]

What size compact flash is needed, all I have is a 32MB one.

I think it should fit on that. It looks like it's around 11M on mine.

[GamingKid]

I followed all the instructions, and when running the linexec all i get is a prompt saying hellow world? is there something wrong with the boot loader, or is the link above incorrect?