Linux ROM Kitchen

Linux ROM kitchen is a tool that allows you to cook your own Windows Mobile ROMs for HTC Windows Mobile devices. This means you can extract the contents of a Shipped or Dumped ROM, and add/remove files or Packages into the ROM.

It consists of several tools, most of them can be run separately from command line, altough they are all nicely put together in a GUI.

Basic knowledge of ROM cooking is expected, it helps if you have played with similar kitchens available for windows before, and know a bit of the internals of WinCE OS.

Use it with CARE. If you don't know what you're doing you can brick your device. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Command Line Tools

 lrk-extract: Exctract ROM packages from Shipped OS.nb or Dumped ROM (Part0x.raw)
 lrk-build: Create os-new.nb from kitchen folder (SYS/OEM + ROM + Packages)
 sofbuild: Generate packages.sof
 dsminfo: Show information from a *.dsm file
 dsmbuild: Create a *.dsm file from a package folder
 nbimg: Create a BMP file from a NB splashscreen, or create a NB file from a BMP

Screencast

To show the basic usage of LRK, I have created a SWF video showing how to cook a ROM, it is available here:

http://www.eslack.org/pof/LRK/

Linux ROM Kitchen Screenshots

Comment by alainbmateo, Oct 18, 2008

Oh man this is really great! Thank you very much! You are the BOMB!