[FormerPalmOS]

os.nb.payload is the actual raw flash data that gets written. It includes the partition information for the flash driver and the MSFLSH50 header for the file system. Basically you take a known good-for-your-device os.nb.payload and run one of several utilities that rip out the existing XIP portion of that file and replace it with your new XIP.bin.

If your XIP.bin file size is <= 2912 KB, you can use my smaller partition - the os.nb.payload in one of the XIPs I post here (os.nb.payload file size is 3200 KB). Otherwise, use a larger os.nb.payload (like what came with Scott's original SSK1.2) or a stick os.nb.payload (like what you get after dumping the stock ROM.

Did you change the default MS boot.rgu or leave it as-is? You could grab the boot.rgu from my XIP7E and that will speed things up as well but you have to do three things to use it.

First, you have to create boot.hv then replace the current boot.hv in the XIP FILES folder with this (then build xip.bin again). Second, you have to edit the boot.rgu.imageinfo.txt file to indicate the correct size of boot.rgu (should be 0x65D6). xipport.exe needs this to properly re-allocate the physical structure of the XIP when you click realloc P. boot.hv size won't change. Third, you need to put this XIP into the ROM\XIP folder in your kitchen when you cook. And lastly, if you used a stock XIP and didn't move anything around, make sure you use the stock .ROM and .VM folders, not my modified ones. THey are modified to take advantage of the null space compression I did on the XIP. They won't work (no boot) if you didn't compress your XIP into the same space.