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Title: Rom Update going badly
Post by: jeetech on May 17, 2004, 05:20:56 am

Today is not my day.

I updated ROM as usual and something went wrong.
My trusted zaurus is not working. Only displays black screen with SHARP.

I think OS is gone completely..

Is there any way that I could reinstall OS?

Thanks in advance

The jeetech

Title: Rom Update going badly
Post by: ThC on May 17, 2004, 05:40:27 am

You should search in the forums for \"bricked\" zaurus ... the method consist in reflashing your zaurus with a NAND backup using a special menu ... btw I dont want to give you bad instructions while the good ones have allready been posted

Title: Rom Update going badly
Post by: Teletubbie on May 17, 2004, 05:49:44 am

You should specify which Zaurus you own. As you see some people with the big zauri thinking about nand restores. If you have 5500 or 5000 you could try to reflash by using a compact flash card. There are a lot of installation guides. For example you find an installationguide at the Openzaurus site. In the case of sharprom is then the same procedere as openzaurus, just by using a file named ospack instead (on your sharp cd) of the two files zImage and init.rd in the case of openzaurus.
Cheers,
Sam

Title: Rom Update going badly
Post by: jeetech on May 17, 2004, 07:35:05 am

Thank you so much for my message.
I own sharp sl 5500 model and will try to do it.

Thanks

Title: Rom Update going badly
Post by: macwiz on May 17, 2004, 07:47:45 am

I had problems reflashing my 5500, and in the end reformating the CF did it. I spent ages downloading roms suspecting that my first attempt had got corrupted, only to find it was the CF itself. Also, when formatted by my mac as msdos FAT format it didn\'t work, but it did from a Windows PC as FAT.

Good Luck