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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: magnumbi on September 03, 2004, 06:33:25 pm
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Hi - I was attempting to flash my sl-5500 with OZ 3.3.5. I formatted a 16mb CF card, moved the initrd.bin and zImage to it, and then proceeded to follow the flash instructions on the OZ web site. Everything seems to work ok, the battery light and the mail light both light up for a few minutes then it goes quiet.
Per the instructions I then hit the reset button again, closed the battery cover, and turned it on. This is where it gets bad. All that happens after I turn it on is that it says "SHARP" in the middle of the screen and there is a cursor flashing in the lower right corner.
Am I doing something wrong? I tried it three times and the same thing happened. Any suggestions that I can do to correct this?
Thanks in advance.
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Nevermind, found the answer in the faq on the OZ web site
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i have the same problem too on my 5500 haven't been able to load any of the OZ rom on it . i would also like to know things i can try to get it to load.
i've loaded the tkc and z energy rom on my 5500.( an old version of z energy not the 5600 rom).
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if you are having trouble naming the zImage file under windows xp, heres how to do it
under windows xp, (from my experience) even if you name the file zImage, the .bin extension stays. I couldnt find a way to remove the extension. this caused my zaurus to boot to the SHARP screen.
what i did was
go to command prompt
enter the directory where zImage is stored
enter the command:
ren zImage.bin zImage
under xp, it should now no longer show zImage as a "bin file" but simply as a "file"
flash now, and it will work