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Title: Help!
Post by: earthcoder on November 24, 2004, 04:46:57 pm

Help.

I just installed - Cacko/Crow ROM update 3.10 (Kernel 2.4.18)
for Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 and SL-5000D

and it rebooted and came up with SD card does not contain blah msg

then says /etc/passwd root password garbled
give root password for maintance

or type Control-D



Now my knowledge of linux is very bad, what do i do.. i tried typing Control-D and a # came up

so tried a password and a # came up

is there a command i have to use to set the password.

Title: Help!
Post by: caunt on November 26, 2004, 12:15:26 am

Hi earthcoder,

I'm NOT an expert, so take what I say with a grain of salt...

but I HAVE been playing a lot with my new (ebay-style) 5000d and have flashed the rom at least a dozen times now.  (I had a lot of trouble deciding which I wanted    ).

I believe I ran into your problem a couple of times and this is what I THINK may be the problem...
the SD card is not set up how the crow rom was expecting...either you don't have it formatted to ext/2, or it's got some stuff on it from other installs that is confusing it.

Do you have data you want to keep on that Rom?  If not, I'd suggest formating the SD card from that little # prompt you were given.  There's a real nice page of instructions here:
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...20for%20newbies (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=Step-by-step%20CF%2FSD%20fdisk%2Fformatting%20for%20newbies)

Title: Help!
Post by: MeaninglessNick on November 26, 2004, 10:02:44 am

# passwd

should do the trick