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 Feb 24 2007, 05:13 PM
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alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.
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Feb 24 2007, 07:03 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 2,821 Joined: 13-September 04 From: Wasilla Ak. Member No.: 4,572 |
QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 25 2007, 01:13 AM) alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.  Trisoft has pretty good instructions on his site, and 2 methods, i think Follow the directions there?--and don't forget to re-image your HD I have done exactly this using exactly those images (think I had to resort to the emergency method, though). You will have (probably) to do a nand restore from the trisoft image, and an hd restore--then flash |
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Feb 25 2007, 02:38 PM
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QUOTE(adf @ Feb 24 2007, 11:03 PM) QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 25 2007, 01:13 AM) alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots. Trisoft has pretty good instructions on his site, and 2 methods, i think Follow the directions there?--and don't forget to re-image your HD I have done exactly this using exactly those images (think I had to resort to the emergency method, though). You will have (probably) to do a nand restore from the trisoft image, and an hd restore--then flash when i do a nand restore in the D+M menu i get a format error. what am i doing wrong? im sorry for being a noob. but i need a serious step by step guide to get out of this muck. |
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Feb 25 2007, 02:46 PM
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format error? this is a well-known problem (seach forum for flash memory partition)... briefly
1) check the card has a partition 2) check its fat16 formatted - a fresh format is a good idea to prevent fragmentation 3) check the md5 of the files (for windows, get this program http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/) |
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Feb 25 2007, 04:07 PM
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QUOTE(speculatrix @ Feb 25 2007, 06:46 PM) format error? this is a well-known problem (seach forum for flash memory partition)... briefly 1) check the card has a partition 2) check its fat16 formatted - a fresh format is a good idea to prevent fragmentation 3) check the md5 of the files (for windows, get this program http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/) alright, thank you. i have cacko flashed on my system. all i have to do now is restore the hdd partitions. to my understanding the pdaxromii3 updater.sh has a nice feature that restores the hd partitions. im going to give that a try. im not to good with fdisk. |
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Feb 25 2007, 04:19 PM
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ok, so i repartitioned the drive with the updater.sh utility but im still getting
"Error!! HDD is not initialized!" i think this has something to do with the files from trisoft that i am supposed to place in the individual partitions. the only problem is that i dont know how to do that. |
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Feb 25 2007, 06:04 PM
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ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write
cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1 but that doesn't work. |
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Feb 25 2007, 06:32 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 2,821 Joined: 13-September 04 From: Wasilla Ak. Member No.: 4,572 |
If I recall correctly, you have to put the disk image files on cf and use the D+M menu--find a hrd disk restore option in there somewhere and restore from cf.
Sorry not to be more specific--haven't done that in nearly a year |
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Feb 25 2007, 07:04 PM
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QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 12:04 PM) ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1 but that doesn't work. your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2 you don't copy things to raw partitions... |
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Feb 25 2007, 08:01 PM
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QUOTE(Meanie @ Feb 25 2007, 11:04 PM) QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 12:04 PM) ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1 but that doesn't work. your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2 you don't copy things to raw partitions... alright, then i have a 750$ brick |
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Feb 25 2007, 09:11 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 2,821 Joined: 13-September 04 From: Wasilla Ak. Member No.: 4,572 |
QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 04:01 AM) QUOTE(Meanie @ Feb 25 2007, 11:04 PM) QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 12:04 PM) ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1 but that doesn't work. your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2 you don't copy things to raw partitions... alright, then i have a 750$ brick probably not. but you likely do have a headache. can you D+M? |
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Feb 26 2007, 02:08 AM
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have you tried /dev/mmcda rather than /dev/sdc ?
I have previously moved from OE back to cacko and don't remember ever using /dev/sdc for my SD cards (1G Danelec and 1G kingston) |
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Feb 26 2007, 02:31 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,277 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
QUOTE QUOTE your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2 you don't copy things to raw partitions... alright, then i have a 750$ brick don't panic, it's pretty easy to restore your hard drive partitions... check out meanie's guide to it, and the data for the drive is on Trisoft's support website... just repartition /dev/hda as per the guide, making sure to set up each partition as the right type, format them, then copy on the data. |
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Feb 26 2007, 07:07 AM
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QUOTE(adf @ Feb 26 2007, 01:11 AM) QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 04:01 AM) QUOTE(Meanie @ Feb 25 2007, 11:04 PM) QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 12:04 PM) ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1 but that doesn't work. your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2 you don't copy things to raw partitions... alright, then i have a 750$ brick probably not. but you likely do have a headache. can you D+M? yes i can d+m. im not sure what to do with it tough what i been trying to do in console is: mount the partiton with # mount /dev/hda1* /hdd1 and make the .sys file with # mkdir .sys i use # cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* /hdd1/.sys and # cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdlist1.dat* /hdd1/.sys to copy the files into the .sys file. unfortunately thats not working. so i dont know what to do at this point |
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Feb 26 2007, 08:50 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,277 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
QUOTE(Matthewmongan @ Feb 26 2007, 04:07 PM) what i been trying to do in console is: mount the partiton with # mount /dev/hda1* /hdd1 and make the .sys file with # mkdir .sys i use # cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* /hdd1/.sys and # cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdlist1.dat* /hdd1/.sys to copy the files into the .sys file. unfortunately thats not working. so i dont know what to do at this point you need to unpack the file rather than simply copying it in. change directory to /hdd2 (e.g.) and decompress and untar, thus cd /hdd2 pwd zcat /mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* | tar xf - |
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