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Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: mike_r on March 08, 2004, 05:01:21 pm

Hi,

I\'d like to try out the ASYNC kernel that has been posted in the Downloads/Kernels section, but need a matching initrd.bin from the Sharp 3.13 ROM to go with it.  I can rip it out of the OSPACK myself, but thought I\'d ask if anyone has it handy first. Pointers?

Thanks.

Mike

Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: lardman on March 08, 2004, 06:19:37 pm

Nope, romburst is your friend.

For all those without it, here you go:


Si

P.S. Someone ought to sort out this attachment thing - I couldn\'t attach the source file as was as it wouldn\'t accept an attachment with a .c suffix.

Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: mike_r on March 09, 2004, 10:14:39 am

For some reason, I couldn\'t see your attachment at all, but I found romburst with Google and was successful in pulling initrd.bin and reflashing. Thanks for the hint.

Mike

Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: Greg2 on March 09, 2004, 10:28:21 am

Quote

For some reason, I couldn\'t see your attachment at all,

It works for me, many d/l\'s on this board you must right-click and save as...

Greg

Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: derekp on March 09, 2004, 10:29:25 am

mike, you don\'t need to flash both the initrd.bin and zImage together.  They can be flashed independantly if you want.  You can also do a \"dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=/mnt/cf/initrd.bin\" to extract your current root filesystem image if you wanted.

--derek

Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: mike_r on March 09, 2004, 10:57:48 am

Greg2 - Lardman\'s attachment block didn\'t show up when I accessed it last night, but I see it now - thanks.

derekp - from reading various docs, I was getting the impression that I could do one at a time, but I didn\'t want to screw up my Z beyond recovery. Thanks for confirming that one at a time is possible.

Thanks to all - I\'m a happy camper.

Mike

Title: SL-5500 V3.13 initrd.bin?
Post by: Xaser on March 24, 2004, 09:04:03 am

Hi mike_r!

Well, I download the romburst  of the above post but I cant use it on windoze, so I didnt want to bother but I would like to ask, if may be possible, the upload of the 3.13 parts separate (initrd.bin and zImage)...

Thanx and best regards!