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Title: Bricked Sl-5500?
Post by: mtfbwy on October 03, 2005, 02:55:01 pm

Okay, I decided to go back to the Sharp ROM after playing around with OZ and just can't get anything to work! I downloaded several ROM's but I always get the same result. When I boot the Z, I get a message that "An error occurred during the file system check. Dropping you to a shell." I can't do anything from here. I checked the flash in the maintenance menu and it checks out fine. I even tried going back to OZ and that did not work.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Title: Bricked Sl-5500?
Post by: mtfbwy on October 03, 2005, 03:08:52 pm

Okay, I was able to get OZ back on but I'd really like to know why I can't go back to the Sharp ROM.

Title: Bricked Sl-5500?
Post by: craigtyson on October 03, 2005, 03:40:54 pm

If you do a search there are a few threads by Mickey on how to restore the 5500 to Sharpdom.

One thisng to check.  Is the image you'r flashing corrupt?  do an md5 to see

Title: Bricked Sl-5500?
Post by: mtfbwy on October 04, 2005, 10:20:47 am

From everything I've read, all I should have to do is reflash to the old ROM. Unfortunately, it never works! I can go back to OZ but flashing to the original Sharp ROM always produces some error in the filesystem. I can only assume that something in the OZ install has prevented me from going back to the old ROM.

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If you do a search there are a few threads by Mickey on how to restore the 5500 to Sharpdom.

One thisng to check.  Is the image you'r flashing corrupt?  do an md5 to see
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Title: Bricked Sl-5500?
Post by: mtfbwy on October 04, 2005, 10:23:05 am

Strange, this last flash seems to have worked. I got the fsck prompt and then reset and it came back.

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From everything I've read, all I should have to do is reflash to the old ROM. Unfortunately, it never works! I can go back to OZ but flashing to the original Sharp ROM always produces some error in the filesystem. I can only assume that something in the OZ install has prevented me from going back to the old ROM.

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If you do a search there are a few threads by Mickey on how to restore the 5500 to Sharpdom.

One thisng to check.  Is the image you'r flashing corrupt?  do an md5 to see
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