Pdaxrom 1.1.0beta 4 And New Bootloader

[newkirk]

a- check tisoft

b- just flash the japanese rom then upgrade to cacko?


c-do b but flash to pdaxrom beta3?
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a- Well, tisoft seems to have the same NAND as I have, plus one a year newer, with some German mods?  

b- I don't want to go cacko or sharp, I want pdaxrom.  

c- Seems there IS no 'beta3' for C860?  All I can find are beta1 and beta4, then the old rc12 (which I was running before trying the beta4 deal)

So I guess I'll NAND restore back to the original japanese ROM, then install beta1.   If I have continuing problems there then I'll go back to rc12.  What burns me up is that I was careful to make NAND backups whenever I'd successfully gotten a new upgrade working, but now I can't find them.  

j

[Osage]

why am I not able to get u-boot working? CF / SD is well formated with FAT16 (tried it with or without partitioning)

trying to flash u-boot with this dammed D + C keys gives me only blinking green / yellow ...

Give a try... don't get confused for blinking leds, 'cause I had been in the same situation.
But I got over with it.
Cookbook: (at least worked for me)
1., fat16 on any card
2., not significant if it is the whole card, or partitioned for 1 partition, eg: mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda or /dev/sda1
3. wait long while both leds are blinking (or simply on), so not only 20 secs...
4., and finally leds stop blinking, and you have u-boot installed.

For me on c3200.

[Martin]

Hi osage,

Thanks ... I tried it many times like you say :-) ... giving it a try for several minutes, but leds don't stop blinking ...

Do you have a more exact time like "more than 20 sec."?

Anybody have problems with FAT16 and msdos filesystem? especially with the upper-/lowercase of filenames ... I use KDE3.5.4 to mount, unzip and copy files?
What about mounting options filenames style (lowercase, Win95,WinNT,mixed) and UTF-8?

Maybe I have problems with that and Lowlevel updater will not recognize the file on my FAT16 media?!

THX
Martin

[diesel1]

Hi osage,

Thanks ... I tried it many times like you say :-) ... giving it a try for several minutes, but leds don't stop blinking ...

Do you have a more exact time like "more than 20 sec."?

Anybody have problems with FAT16 and msdos filesystem? especially with the upper-/lowercase of filenames ... I use KDE3.5.4 to mount, unzip and copy files?
What about mounting options filenames style (lowercase, Win95,WinNT,mixed) and UTF-8?

Maybe I have problems with that and Lowlevel updater will not recognize the file on my FAT16 media?!

THX
Martin
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Hi martin did you format as in this post [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=19809&st=67#]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=19809&st=68#[/url]?

Simon.

[Martin]

Hi diesel,

yes, that's what I did to prepare CF or SD Card :-) tried it with / without partitioning on /dev/sd? and /dev/sd?1 ... but no chance ...

Maybe someone could make a fresh installation on a c860 and post me a NAND backup? This works without problems on my c860! I could give some place on my server! Please PM me.

Yes I'm missing the donation link on the new website too.

THX
Martin

[solighten]

Hi,

I wonder why there are two threads about the same issue (Beta4)

My Z is now running beta4 and I have the same problems that were already reported. Using the mentioned alsamixer I now have sound   and the Fn-key works as right mouse button after I made the mentioned changes to /etc/sysconfig/x11mousebutts    

The Ctrl and Alt keys still do not work at all    any solution so far??

I found another strange thing: When I read a book using pdf-viewer and then turn my Z off and on again the pdf-viewer starts to turn pages like pressing (Fn-Up) and the only thing I could do is to kill xpdf.

I am not going back to my previous Beta1. Beta4 is just too nice

Short update:

I found another problem: After turning my Z back on when it was shut off for a longer time (e.g. over night) the SD and CF cards are not accessible any more. Any attempt to read from either one results in a green cpu panel (cpu stays busy) and the only solution is to kill the reading provess. I have not yet discovered how to make the cards work again without a reboot. Eject and reinserting the cards is not sufficent.

[Loial]

Hi,

I'm in a tricky situation with my 860 right now. Whenever I try to use C+D I get both LEDs flashing. Nothing else happens:( Also from D+M I cannot select 'CF Update' because it says: SD Update, ---Found orders---, followed by 'Model Error!!' displayed in red...
The only thing that works is doing a NAND restore. However even then I can not update my 860 to anything else because I can no longer get the Japanese Update menu (OK+power).
Is there a chance I can get that Japanese Update menu back?? I'm guessing that should solve my problems.

Thanks in advance

[Loial]

Okay, nevermind  Luckily the japanese menu re-appeared after I did a NAND restore
Everything seems to install just fine now, fiew

[himchen]

The Ctrl and Alt keys still do not work at all    any solution so far??

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Have you tried the two japanese keys right to the Fn key? They work for
me on my C860 (from [a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/howto/c7x0-and-cxx00-26-kernel-information/]OpenZaurus c7×0 and cxx00 2.6 Kernel Information[/url])

[donquixote]

Can anyone explain why I can boot into the emergency system but when I try to do anything it just freezes?

I have a c760.

I can change the directory to /mnt/cf but when I try to do this:

nandlogical /dev/mtd1 WRITE 0x0 0x20000 u-boot.bin

it just freezes. Actually, if I try to do anything (like `ls') it freezes.

I tried using that D-M method that sashz presents us (the one with all the pics) to no avail, i.e. it seemed to work, but then it just booted into the emerg system again and froze like before.

Any help?

Thanks.

dq

[solighten]

Can anyone explain why I can boot into the emergency system but when I try to do anything it just freezes?

I have a c760.

I can change the directory to /mnt/cf but when I try to do this:

nandlogical /dev/mtd1 WRITE 0x0 0x20000 u-boot.bin

it just freezes. Actually, if I try to do anything (like `ls') it freezes.

I tried using that D-M method that sashz presents us (the one with all the pics) to no avail, i.e. it seemed to work, but then it just booted into the emerg system again and froze like before.

Any help?

Thanks.

dq
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Hi,

on my C860 I had the same problem. I just removed the card when my Z was turned off and reinserted it after turning the Z back on. This was not ment to solve the problem, I did it just to check if it was the correct card, but it solved the problem  

[solighten]

The Ctrl and Alt keys still do not work at all    any solution so far??

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Have you tried the two japanese keys right to the Fn key? They work for
me on my C860 (from [a href=\"http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/howto/c7x0-and-cxx00-26-kernel-information/]OpenZaurus c7×0 and cxx00 2.6 Kernel Information[/url])
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Thanks, that works  

Does anyone know how to change this without the GUI, which doesn't seem to work? I find it difficult to hold both kanji keys and press left or right to switch desktops. With Calendar and Address as Ctrl and Alt this was quite easy.

Cheers, Jan