MobileOSS

I finally converted the mobile phone in to a desktop!

I borrowed the source code from Linwizard and cross compiled on my openSuse. I borrowed the initrd file also from linwizard.

I copied zImage and Initrd to my SD card and booted using HaRET.

The journey was smooth and in about 30 seconds, the HTC Wizard booted into Linux and the login prompt appeared. I logged in as root. There is no password for this account!!

When I issued the command “startx”, the GPE came alive with a touch screen caliberation screen. On completion, it started the GPE desktop - the GPE-enabled mobile phone is ready for operation, but without any phone functionality

I am looking under the hood to understand the complexities involved.

One thing you can expect - I will log everything.

This is what I did to boot HTC Wizard using Linux

1. git cloned gnimirror http://mirrors.gni.com/mirrors/linwizard/polaris/linwizard-kernel.git
2. Created a local branch
3. make htcwizard_defconfig
4. Changed the CROSS_COMPILE option to reflect the prefix of the command
5. Make zImage
6. Copy the zImage to SD card
7. Copy the initrd from linwizard site
8. Booted using Haret