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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: GadgetGuy on May 19, 2006, 08:29:40 am

Title: Need Help - Cant Flash Beta4 Bootloader
Post by: GadgetGuy on May 19, 2006, 08:29:40 am

Hello all,

I have downloaded the Pdaxrom beta 4 files, and followed the steps to install.

1. I have erased the NAND Flash via the extras menu
2. I have formatted several SD and CF cards with FAT and I have copied the bootloader and Pdaxrom files to them.

3. I have started my C3100 with one card in, without battery, holding C+D I plug the power plug in

and...

4. the power and HDD leds blink ( both of them) and nothing happens.

I have tried this with a
- Lexar SD card
- Kingston SD card and
- Sandisk CF card
( I always had only one card in the unit).

Always the same result: the bootloader is not flashing, both LED's blink...


Any ideas what else I could try ( I know, I could reflash the sharp / cacko rom, but I would really prefer to try Pdaxrom Beta 4...)?

Thanks for your help...

Miklos

Title: Need Help - Cant Flash Beta4 Bootloader
Post by: MONVMENTVM on May 19, 2006, 08:49:46 am

is it possible that you formatted the cards with fat32 instead of fat16?

Edit: btw. I am using also a Kingston 512MB SD card

Title: Need Help - Cant Flash Beta4 Bootloader
Post by: GadgetGuy on May 19, 2006, 08:49:50 am

I think I have found the reason. I took the updated uboot.bin file from Sash's website, and since it saved on my laptop as uboot.bin I copied that file directly to my various memory cards.

Now I realized, that that file is actually compressed. So I renamed it from uboot.bin to uboot.bin.bz2, extracted it with winrar and now I have (hopefully) the correct uboot.bin file.

I will try tonight at home how that works - and will post here the results...

Title: Need Help - Cant Flash Beta4 Bootloader
Post by: GadgetGuy on May 19, 2006, 08:51:34 am

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is it possible that you formatted the cards with fat32 instead of fat16?
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I used FAT in Windows - and not FAT32 ( I assume FAT is FAT16, right?) but I think I have found the problem. See my other post in this thread.

Still: thanks for the reply...

Title: Need Help - Cant Flash Beta4 Bootloader
Post by: MONVMENTVM on May 19, 2006, 08:53:05 am

Yes that would be the problem... the file is called (as you already said) uboot.bin.bz2

Now it should work (btw. your avatar suits this thread  ... scnr)

Title: Need Help - Cant Flash Beta4 Bootloader
Post by: GadgetGuy on May 20, 2006, 01:00:33 pm

It works - I have not Beta 4 running on my C3100. Fantastic!

Now I only have to figure out, how to have my HDD recognized ( partition 1 is recognized as CF, all the other partitions and the swap partition are invisible...)