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Everything Else => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => SIMpad forum => Topic started by: DrHok on April 16, 2005, 05:25:35 pm
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I installed the latest opensimpad image (opensimpad-0.9.0rc1_opieXXL.jffs2, see Topic at old SIMPad forum (http://opensimpad.org/opensimpad-forum/viewtopic.php?t=835&sid=4d7639a471ab8cf99b3df34847a44520)) and the new hh.org bootloader along with it.
Now I managed to screw it (I tried to install some packages, and now they are neither there (I can't use them) nor gone (I can't reinstall them).
I thought reinstalling OPIE might be a good idea. I understand that I have to erase the flash in order to make the SIMPad install the image from a CF card.
But how do I do it? The erase flash option of the bootloader needs the blocks to be erased (see http://www.handhelds.org/Compaq/bootldr.html (http://www.handhelds.org/Compaq/bootldr.html)) , but which blocks should I erase?
Do I have to reinstall the old bootloader 2.5.3? The installation guides always start from the "classic" bootloader.
How else can I reinstall (preferably from CF card)?
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How else can I reinstall (preferably from CF card)?
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"I am not an expert" but all I had to do was to copy the new image from the CF card to the root partition. No erase required. This is the advice cmartin gave me:
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If not the bootldr receives input and drops to a boot prompt:
boot>
If you see this then do
boot> copy hda1:/simpad-rootfs.jffs2 root
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This is the advice cmartin gave me:
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Oops, I realize that I managed to overlook it in the old SIMpad forum. Thanks!
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No worries. Now that the old fora are closed it is nice to see activity starting to pick up here 8^).