Well, I went ahead and hooked up the serial port to my Gen3, and it works; the baud rate is 115kB. I see a boot up message that matches the one on OpenInkpot etc. but it gets hallfway along and then....
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DZ Test vivi code
Press Return to start the LINUX now, any other key for vivi
Copy linux kernel from 0x00030000 to 0x30008000, size = 0x00100000 ... done
zImage magic = 0x016f2818
Setup linux parameters at 0x30000100
linux command line is: "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock/2 init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0"
MACH_TYPE = 193
NOW, Booting Linux......
Uncompressing Linux............................................
crc error
-- System halted
So, it looks like the compressed Linux image may be currupted. I can get to the "vivi" command line:
DZ Test vivi code
Press Return to start the LINUX now, any other key for vivi
type "help" for help.
vivi> help
Usage:
cpu [{cmds}] -- Manage cpu clocks
reset -- Reset the system
param [set|show|save|reset] -- set/get parameter
part [add|del|show|reset] -- Manage MTD partitions
mem [{cmds}] -- Manage Memory
load {...} -- Load a file to RAM/Flash
go <addr> <a0> <a1> <a2> <a3> -- jump to <addr>
dump <addr> <length> -- Display (hex dump) a range of memory.
call <addr> <a0> <a1> <a2> <a3> -- jump_with_return to <addr>
boot [{cmds}] -- Booting linux kernel
help [{cmds}] -- Help about help?
vivi>
So, lots of possible options. Does anybody know how I could reload the thing at this point? I have the update kernal files etc from Bookeen, but I'm not sure how to proceed at this point. Perhaps I should switch this over to the Gen3 Developers Forum too