Hi guys. So I bought this little horrible Augen E-Go netbook at an electronics flee market because it was $17. It has Windows CE on it, and I always assumed I would replace it later with Linux. But when I created a boot drive, it wouldn't boot. So I poked around online, and, as it turns out, Augen protected against that and pretty much embedded it to the point that it isn't really possible to install Linux on it. So here is my question: do any of you have information I do not have on this topic. Or are there any of you hackers out there that could design a hack for me. I know I'm asking a lot, but this is important to me. Oh, and here are the machine's specs: 248mhz processor, 64mb of RAM, and 2gb of internal storage. It uses ARM, and the model no. is OE-A736. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me out.

Welcome to the world of misfit toys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDccEaBHQU)

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but development requires developers, and that requires either; cash, or something interesting to work on. Or both. So how much money do you have?


On a more practical note, you will at the very least have to:

1) Get a schematic of the device, download all of the spec sheets, manuals, app notes, errata, etc for every last stinking chip (CPU, GPU, Controller, down to the lowliest UART chip).

2) Read all of the aforementioned documentation (that'll keep you busy for awhile).

3) Using the linux kernel sources as a guide (all 28 gazillion megs of it...), develop your kernel, drivers, & programs for your hardware.

3a) Maybe you should stop here as well : https://www.google.com/webhp?source=...es&safe=active

4) Take it apart and locate the JTAG interface. It will succumb to your modifications (in other words, blast the sucker with your new code). Whether it works after that is a different story...

4a) Do all of the steps that I invariably left out.

5) Profit!!


Besides, I was here first! You need to wait your turn until linux gets ported to my Apple Newton!

to summarize, you are probably going to need to open it up and find a JTAG interface to flash the bios.

The tough part will be finding firmware that will work. Search the internet and see if you can find a machine which uses the same hardware and has a more friendly bios.

Another possibility, you probably won't be this lucky, some arm systems keep all their firmware and boot configurations in a fat boot partition. If that's the case you may be able to either easily replace the firmware, or even better yet, redirect the partition that boots.