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OpenBSD / Destroyed Linux/partitions On Sl-c3200

« on: June 04, 2006, 10:01:12 am »

now your zaurus is ready for the sharprom installation if you have not done so.
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I appreciate the clarification Cresho,

Looks like it's all the way it should be now, although I'm still getting an HDD error since I haven't done the NAND ROM restore. I've got to go and buy a bigger CF card for that (i've only got an old 128MB one - just a bit too small!).

Thanks again!

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OpenBSD / Destroyed Linux/partitions On Sl-c3200

« on: June 04, 2006, 03:43:33 am »

HAHAAAH!!!  HEEHE!  excuse me.

Thanks for the welcome to this not-so-exclusive club.  

I've downloaded the zip from the "Restore the harddisk" section of the trisoft 3200 page.
So far I've managed to use fdisk to restore the partition table to what is suggested in the readme:

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/dev/hda1  Start 1  End 20  Blocks 10048+  id 83 System Linux

/dev/hda2  Start 21 End 40  Blocks 10080  id 83 System Linux

/dev/hda3  Start 41 End 11905 Blocks 5979960 id c System Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
but I'm not really following what files are meant to be copied onto those partitions but I've got to go now... drat!  Anyway it seems like I'm on the right track now, so thanks.

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OpenBSD / Destroyed Linux/partitions On Sl-c3200

« on: June 04, 2006, 02:48:34 am »

A few days ago I had a new SL-C3200 delivered and tried my first openbsd installation on it.  I should have probably practiced on an i386 box or something first, because when it came to the disk partitioning steps I got confused and ended up doing something nasty to it.  

I can't really remember what I did, but basically I think I wiped out some crucial linux partition(s) leaving only what I think was an OpenBSD / and swap partitions.  Knowing I'd probably messed up, I figured I'd try to continue with the install - I was hoping to retrieve the binaries using the Planex GW-CF11X 802.11b card which I bought with the Zaurus, but the installer didn't seem to know about it, so I aborted the install, thinking I'd be able to start it all over again.

But now when I boot up, following the white "SHARP" screen, I get

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probing: cn0 com0 com1 com2
disk: hd0*
>> OpenBSD/zaurus BOOT 2.08
boot>
booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: No such file or directory
 failed(2). will try /obsd
boot>
booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: No such file or directory
 failed(2). will try /obsd

...This goes on for a while and eventually stops with

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Turning timeout off.
boot>
If I then type "reboot", I get

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Rebooting...
mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /hdd1 failed: Invalid argument
HDD1 Error!!
So I've discovered the reliance on linux the hard way  

Can anyone point me to instructions on how to get things back to a point where I can try installing OpenBSD again?

I've seen many references to a page which is said to have recovery instructions for SL-C3000 but the site doesn't seem to be working, and I cant find copies of it in archive.org or google's cache.

I'd be grateful for any help with this.

Cheers