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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Alt-boot Sd Oz 3.5.4

« on: March 19, 2006, 06:42:07 am »

Hmm.. I have to repack tar.bz2 to tar.gz then

use files from images/collie/tarballs/ as rootfs.tar.gz
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thanks HRW, the new .tar.gz files seem to make altboot happy, and i can do an install ,  but when it comes to actually booting it i get a whole heap of

/etc/init.d/rcS: 95 [: Input/output error
/etc/rcS.d/S40networking 9:  [:Input/output error
...and so it goes on until the login prompt.

does my sd card need to be formatted vfat ? at the moment its ext2,  i had it working with hentges 3.5.3 rom ok and the card seems fine when i write to it with various desktop machines.

do i need to copy the rootfs.tar.gz to the sd card? i was trying to install it from the cf card which i used to flash the zaurus to the sd card.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Alt-boot Sd Oz 3.5.4

« on: March 18, 2006, 10:51:50 am »

Wow , lots of work went in to 3.5.4. Just tried it today and it's fantastic. Opie is very responsive, haven't had any errors / crashes and wifi just works. Thanks for a great release.

I am the proud owner of a 5500 which means i don't have enough memory to install konqeror and utilize my new found wireless goodness. I tried to install it with altboot using Advanced-> 8 in the boot menu, but it complained that it couldn't find rootfs.tar.gz

which file is the rootfs.tar.gz ? I downloaded the bootstrap-image-3.5.4-collie.initrd.bin on the OZ site , do i just rename this ?

thanks in Advance
Mase

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / collie and kernel from 3.5.3 upgrades

« on: July 07, 2005, 05:19:33 pm »

OK how many people are having this issue? It's obvious that this isn't going to be something easy to fix since most of the people having the problem aren't developers and the developers have working machines and probably a lack of time.

So I guess my question is, would this be a problem that developers would be willing to give priority to if there was a "bounty" of sorts offered, and if so are people willing to contribute or pledge to the bounty? If so how much do we need to raise.?

Since the sharp ROM is essentially crap, and there isn't any acceptable commercial ROM (at least that i'm aware of), so i think most of us are  basically relying on OZ to become stable in order for the 5500 to actually be "useful" and not just a hunk of junk.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / collie and kernel from 3.5.3 upgrades

« on: July 06, 2005, 01:55:42 pm »

I am having the exact same problem. I've just installed a brand new OZ 3.5.3 using the default opie-64-0 zImage and the initrd.bin.

Then to upgrade the kernel, i downloaded the zImage-collie-64-0-2..> kernel from the upgrades/ area.

I then removed everything from the CF card and copied the zImage-collie-64-0-2 file to the root directory as zImage so that only the zImage was on it.

I've also tried with both the new zImage and the initrd.bin file on the CF but this produced the problems quoted below.

What am i doing wrong?

er um...
I do the upgrade and the boot keeps in 'Configuring update modules' for more than 10 minutes, so i concluded that it freezed, so I repited the flash procedure and it freezed again.

I have a zaurus sl5500

Using this files to flash:
opie-image-collie-20050407173817.rootfs.jffs2
zImage-collie-32-32-r21.bin
of course, after renamig it to initrd.bin and zImage
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