Building Angstrom image

After some trial and error and many hours of googling, I managed to compile several images to the end.

At first, I was having problems with /dev/rtc not being created during bootup process. I changed the version of udev from default 151 to 124 and that fixed the problem. The latest kernel from cvs works much better with bluetooth and wifi , but some changes in angstrom-2008.1.conf need to be done to compile it properly. All files and images could be found here.

Using boot loader I uploaded images through com port and booted with these settings:

set linuxargs "root=mtd1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 noinitrd 115200 ttyS0 vt100"

boot

Both console image and opie imaged worked fine, but for gpe touch screen would not work.

Testing Angstrom distributions

So I was using Familiar on my ipaq h5550 for a while, but it seems that it is not much supported anymore. After some googling I found that developers moved to openembedded/angstrom distribution. I decided to give that a try and install some precompiled images. This is a brief summery of my experiments:

1. Narcissus as of 05/10/10 stable/GPE:

Loads kernel, responds to buttons by printing messages, no graphical interface.

2. Angstrom-opie-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-r18-h5000:

After rebooting loaded normally with graphical display. I was not able to get wifi and bluetooth to work.

3. Angstrom-minimalist-gpe-glibc-ipk-2007.12-r18-h5000:

Booted with noinitrd option. Touch screen was not working.