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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Sharp ROMs => Topic started by: Matthewmongan on February 24, 2007, 08:13:49 pm
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alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.
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alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.
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Trisoft has pretty good instructions on his site, and 2 methods, i think
Follow the directions there?--and don't forget to re-image your HD
I have done exactly this using exactly those images (think I had to resort to the emergency method, though).
You will have (probably) to do a nand restore from the trisoft image, and an hd restore--then flash
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alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.
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Trisoft has pretty good instructions on his site, and 2 methods, i think
Follow the directions there?--and don't forget to re-image your HD
I have done exactly this using exactly those images (think I had to resort to the emergency method, though).
You will have (probably) to do a nand restore from the trisoft image, and an hd restore--then flash
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when i do a nand restore in the D+M menu i get a format error. what am i doing wrong?
im sorry for being a noob. but i need a serious step by step guide to get out of this muck.
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format error? this is a well-known problem (seach forum for flash memory partition)... briefly
1) check the card has a partition
2) check its fat16 formatted - a fresh format is a good idea to prevent fragmentation
3) check the md5 of the files (for windows, get this program http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/) (http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/))
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format error? this is a well-known problem (seach forum for flash memory partition)... briefly
1) check the card has a partition
2) check its fat16 formatted - a fresh format is a good idea to prevent fragmentation
3) check the md5 of the files (for windows, get this program http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/) (http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/))
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alright, thank you. i have cacko flashed on my system. all i have to do now is restore the hdd partitions. to my understanding the pdaxromii3 updater.sh has a nice feature that restores the hd partitions. im going to give that a try. im not to good with fdisk.
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ok, so i repartitioned the drive with the updater.sh utility but im still getting
"Error!! HDD is not initialized!"
i think this has something to do with the files from trisoft that i am supposed to place in the individual partitions. the only problem is that i dont know how to do that.
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ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write
cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1
but that doesn't work.
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If I recall correctly, you have to put the disk image files on cf and use the D+M menu--find a hrd disk restore option in there somewhere and restore from cf.
Sorry not to be more specific--haven't done that in nearly a year
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ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write
cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1
but that doesn't work.
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your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...
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ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write
cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1
but that doesn't work.
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your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...
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alright, then i have a 750$ brick
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ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write
cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1
but that doesn't work.
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your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...
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alright, then i have a 750$ brick
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probably not. but you likely do have a headache.
can you D+M?
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have you tried /dev/mmcda rather than /dev/sdc ?
I have previously moved from OE back to cacko and don't remember ever using
/dev/sdc for my SD cards (1G Danelec and 1G kingston)
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your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...
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alright, then i have a 750$ brick
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don't panic, it's pretty easy to restore your hard drive partitions... check out meanie's guide to it, and the data for the drive is on Trisoft's support website... just repartition /dev/hda as per the guide, making sure to set up each partition as the right type, format them, then copy on the data.
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ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write
cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1
but that doesn't work.
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your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...
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alright, then i have a 750$ brick
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probably not. but you likely do have a headache.
can you D+M?
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yes i can d+m. im not sure what to do with it tough
what i been trying to do in console is:
mount the partiton with
# mount /dev/hda1* /hdd1
and make the .sys file with
# mkdir .sys
i use
# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* /hdd1/.sys
and
# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdlist1.dat* /hdd1/.sys
to copy the files into the .sys file. unfortunately thats not working. so i dont know what to do at this point
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what i been trying to do in console is:
mount the partiton with
# mount /dev/hda1* /hdd1
and make the .sys file with
# mkdir .sys
i use
# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* /hdd1/.sys
and
# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdlist1.dat* /hdd1/.sys
to copy the files into the .sys file. unfortunately thats not working. so i dont know what to do at this point
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you need to unpack the file rather than simply copying it in. change directory to /hdd2 (e.g.) and decompress and untar, thus
cd /hdd2
pwd
zcat /mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* | tar xf -