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Title: Help Z Just Can't Boot Up
Post by: penguinsam on April 08, 2005, 02:23:09 pm

After I installed the irda applet onto my Z and perform a reboot, it locks up at "Please wait...starting linux and qtopia" screen and doesn't allow me into the system.

I have got something important inside the user partitions in the RAM, how could I have it backed up in advance? And could it be fixed without newly install the ROM?

My Z is now using CACKO 1.22a. Many thanks to guys here  

I tried the "backup user partition" function of the CACKO installer, but it keeps the blue screen here and a cursor blinking at the bottom after I entered the backup name, and a blinking email LED...

Do I have to wait or do something else? I really dun know if it is working now...

Title: Help Z Just Can't Boot Up
Post by: lardman on April 10, 2005, 04:26:41 pm

What is the machine type?

Either use the kepress (if it's available) to drop to a terminal before Qtopia starts up (used to be the /? button on 5500s as it was counting down).

Or use ssh/telnet/whatever Cacko might have installed to get a terminal.

Then use 'ipkg remove <name of applet, etc.>' to remove the offending applet.


Si

Title: Help Z Just Can't Boot Up
Post by: penguinsam on April 11, 2005, 09:15:58 am

I found that qtopia-irdaapplet from Maslovsky crashed with CACKO 1.22.

I tried installing this applet once again after I have fixed my Z 860, same thing happened...

Title: Help Z Just Can't Boot Up
Post by: jomo on April 27, 2005, 11:45:26 am

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I found that qtopia-irdaapplet from Maslovsky crashed with CACKO 1.22.

I tried installing this applet once again after I have fixed my Z 860, same thing happened...
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I'm assuming that you're using the irda applet that Maslovsky wrote to work on the original Sharp ROM - "Recompiled statically with Opie code".  I believe this functionality is already inherent in Cacko 1.22, and this may be why you are having these issues.  Ie. you don't need to install the applet.  A version of it is already in the ROM.

Regards...