Problem is, STICK wants to install the German-language version of CHDK. It has done so successfully. I've taken the SD card with CHDK_DE, put it in my camera, and booted to the CHDK splash screen. I correctly guessed what would be the <ALT> button, pressed it, and seen the German-language menus appear. That's good news -- it means everything works. Except it's all in German!
My understanding is that STICK is looking for the standard (i.e., English-language) release and not finding it, so it goes on to hunt for the German-language version, and finds IT, so that's what STICK uses. Could somebody please look and see if there's a problem with the (English) SX210-IS 1.6.x zip file not being where STICK can find it?
One solution would be for STICK to have a "Browse" button next to its "Download" button. That way users could optionally point STICK to a .zip file of their choosing, possibly a local modified CHDK, whatever.
For one thing, (we're talking about manually unzipping 1.7.0 right to the card here) my SD card has two partitions and I don't know which to choose. I suppose I could unzip to both, but that grates on my sense of cleanliness. OK, at a guess I downloaded the 1.7.0 zipfile and unpacked it to the smaller FAT16 boot partition. Makes sense. Incipient problem 1: the FAT16 partition is circa 16MB in size. CHDK 1.7.0 takes up around 15.1MB, so we're getting close there.
Hit <ALT> and saw the CHDK menu, but in the upper left of the screen was the message "ERROR: MISSING MODULE". I'd tell you which modules were missing, but CHDK didn't tell me.
On a lark, I put my "golden" 32GB SD card into my PC and found ... just one FAT32 partition for the whole card. So despite its age my SX210-IS is capable of booting (and running) from a single FAT32 partition.
It's got 256GB
Quote from: BearOfNH on 03 / September / 2023, 20:24:15For one thing, (we're talking about manually unzipping 1.7.0 right to the card here) my SD card has two partitions and I don't know which to choose. I suppose I could unzip to both, but that grates on my sense of cleanliness. OK, at a guess I downloaded the 1.7.0 zipfile and unpacked it to the smaller FAT16 boot partition. Makes sense. Incipient problem 1: the FAT16 partition is circa 16MB in size. CHDK 1.7.0 takes up around 15.1MB, so we're getting close there.You should put DISKBOOT.BIN in the root of the small partition, and all the other files on the large one.
QuoteOn a lark, I put my "golden" 32GB SD card into my PC and found ... just one FAT32 partition for the whole card. So despite its age my SX210-IS is capable of booting (and running) from a single FAT32 partition. I very much doubt SX210 can boot from FAT32 cards. IMO it's far more likely something is confused and your PC is not seeing the small one or some other mistake.
Well of course that is entirely possible. But if you look at the attachment below (which I hope is there) it should show Disk Manager's view of the drive. Just one FAT32 partition and no others. OTOH, there are no obvious boot files to be found on that partition, so maybe they are well-hidden, or possibly not anywhere on the card. Perhaps the boot files are with the (100c) microcode. I got the card ~11 years ago and don't recall if I formatted it with the camera, or just plugged it in and started shooting. Pictures, that is.Here (maybe) is Windows' view of the 32GB "golden" card. I will follow up with another post on a related topic.
Now for Part II. When last we heard from our intrepid hero (me, that is), he had a large 256GB card with two partitions: a 16MB boot partition and a far larger FAT32 partition where photos were supposed to go. Windows of course would not format the large partition as FAT32 despite the fact that
You should put DISKBOOT.BIN in the root of the small partition, and all the other files on the large one.
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