[Nottingham] WonderMedia WM8650

[david at gbenet.com]

On 14/03/13 05:43, James Moore wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On 10/03/2013 12:12, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I bought Carolyn a small Netbook which tells me it's a WonderMedia WM8650.
> Not a bad little budget tablet
>> I decided to put UBUNTU on it. So I burnt an ISO to an SD card with "Startup Disk Creator."
>> Al's well - it boots. But the WonderMedia Netbook does not boot from it and as the
>> WonderMedia has no BIOS I am at a loss as to what to do.
> That's because it's based on an ARM9 processor, not x86/64. The EFI (which also contains the
> OS) is embedded in the processor core, in an EEPROM. You need not an ISO image, but an
> EEPROM image. This also contains what would be equivalent to BIOS/EFI information. It all
> harks back to the days of Windows Portable/CE, where the entire user interface and app
> package is contained in a single ROM image of about 40MB of data.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> On a more happy not I get delivery of my Triumph Bonneville T100 865cc in April it's Cherry
>> and Cream in colour so I'm really excited!!!!!!
>>
>> But it's the WonderMedia that vexes!!
>>
>> David
>>
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Hello James,

I downloaded an ARM version from Ubuntu - and bunt that to the SD card. But even that fails
to boot - I put it in the Netbook's SD slot and tried it via a USB cardreader. This Netbook
does not stop to read any devices that are plugged in at startup.

I was hopeful of getting her into Linux - oh well .......... )

Thanks

David


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