Garmin OS

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Shawn
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Re: Garmin OS

#21 Post by Shawn »

Ok....Maybe when I feel up to it, I will clone my Garmin anyway....
Hook it up to my PC as an external drive.

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Re: Garmin OS

#22 Post by Azrial »

kode-niner wrote:What mapping problem?
I have had a tremendous amount of problems when using the OEM GPS of the CF-29 and CF-30 under Linux and getting it to work with any of the available Mapping programs and map sources. I had a thread about it here in the past, and this was some time ago, but one of the major problems was that most of the programs were designed to work with a USB GPS, and did not deal well with the factory unit.

YMMV, mine didn’t. I do not have GPS on the new CF-31, yet.

I do not want want to draw this thread off track, I was just answering your question. This is an old problem.
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Re: Garmin OS

#23 Post by UNCNDL1 »

NO old problems, just new challenges. Let's dig in and find answers...
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Re: Garmin OS

#24 Post by glitch »

OK, sorry to be out of touch for so long. Sorry for being late to the party, I am trying to catch up on the forum....

ARM architecture is different than Intel chips. Like the assembly code 0xa162f98cc might be self destruct on ARM and be a "jump and link" command on Intel. Low level code is standardized for families of processors, but since ARM processors are built different than Intel they do not use the same set of commands and syntax.

So to run a system built for ARM on Intel hardware (ie. Toughbooks) you could use the virtual machine like someone suggested. Or you could rebuild the OS for Intel by compiling it for the Intel chip. I do not know if you need to just recompile the kernel or the whole thing. I have compiled kernels for my machines before with some success, and a few complete failures. :P

I'll take a look at it and see if its beyond me. I do know I run an ARM / Debian based OS on Raspberry Pi, so it should be possible to compile it the other way.

Here is a link to get someone started on compiling a kernel:

https://debian-handbook.info/browse/sta ... ation.html

Use a spare machine /virtual machine for your first attempts.
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