GPE boots - off HDD!

Well it looks like my trick worked. I put the microdrive into my PC and resized the data partition 128mb smaller (using standard Linux fdisk). Then created a fourth partition (ext2) in the freed up space and unpacked GPE into it. Tweaked the initrd scripts a little and finally overwrote the start of the data partition so that PalmOS would see it as invalid and reformat it. Put the drive back into the Palm and booted. I think PalmOS registered the change in partition size, so we won't have problems with it overwriting the new partition (and that also opens the possibility for upgrading to a larger HDD or a real flash card ). Ran Garux. A couple of minutes later GPE was asking me to calibrate the touchscreen.

Now unfortunately it looks like I've somehow broken my touchscreen drivers, the Palm just locks up when I insmod palmld_ac97.ko. I guess I'll fix that tomorrow. I should also hack together a prc that'll do the re-partitioning so that anyone who's feeling brave can give this a go.