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Title: How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?
Post by: penguinsam on April 25, 2010, 04:48:23 am

Hi all,

My Netwalker boots into the normal Ubuntu screen and then a long long long black screen and just can't boot into the Desktop.

I know there is a way using restore.sh and a Micro-SD card to recover it to the stock setting, but now I even cannot load to X.

Can anybody figure out how I could recover (or fix?) it?

Thanks in advanced.

Title: How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?
Post by: merlin1 on April 25, 2010, 07:47:07 am

Do you have the recovery card?

If you don't you need another Linux box with a (micro)SD card reader. Then, use this script to create the microSD recovery card which will enable you to get back to square one.

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/spider-recovery (http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/spider-recovery)

This can be run on any Linux PC like this (/dev/mmcblk0 is your card reader, change if necessary):

Code: [Select]

sudo DEV=/dev/mmcblk0 ./spider-recovery
On a sidenote, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 when you see the black screen and get to a console? If yes you can try to log on and fix the problem if you know what it is.

Title: How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?
Post by: penguinsam on April 27, 2010, 12:48:27 pm

Hi merlin1,

Based on your script, I could obtain a recovery card using my Linux Desktop.

But now I insert it into the Netwalker, boot it using "L" + "R" mouse buttons together with the power button, the original "Sharp" logo appears but no recovery menu appears...

I kept these buttons pressed, but still no response...is there any tricks to get into it?

Quote from: merlin1

Do you have the recovery card?

If you don't you need another Linux box with a (micro)SD card reader. Then, use this script to create the microSD recovery card which will enable you to get back to square one.

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/spider-recovery (http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/spider-recovery)

This can be run on any Linux PC like this (/dev/mmcblk0 is your card reader, change if necessary):

Code: [Select]

sudo DEV=/dev/mmcblk0 ./spider-recovery
On a sidenote, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 when you see the black screen and get to a console? If yes you can try to log on and fix the problem if you know what it is.

Title: How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?
Post by: penguinsam on April 28, 2010, 03:05:58 am

UPDATE:
I discovered I should release the Power button after the Sharp logo appears in order to access the recovery menu...

My Netwalker is just restored, thanks and thanks for the script

Title: How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?
Post by: merlin1 on April 28, 2010, 06:20:52 am

Glad you got it sorted

That script is not mine, it was created by Osamu Aoki. So all credits go to him. I merely posted the link to it.

Title: How To Recover Netwalker Without Boot Into Desktop?
Post by: penguinsam on May 02, 2010, 09:07:55 am

yes, it is happy to see it is solved.
Thanks both.