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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New pdaXrom installer (to have just Root partition)
« on: August 21, 2004, 12:09:05 pm »
Jerry, that mtdnand looks jerky. It makes no sense to me. How did you attached it?

BTW, I haven't tried RC2 yet...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New pdaXrom installer (to have just Root partition)
« on: August 13, 2004, 12:41:21 pm »
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Ashley, the other problem is that the C700 kernel probably needs to be patched and recompiled to work with 64Mb large jffs2 partitions. That could be easily done, the only problem is that I don't really know what exact kernel patches are applied by the pdaXrom developers to their kernels.

You are right. And it may not be as simple as the trick used with 750s (using the 760 kernel). Recompilation may be needed. The worse is I don't own a 700, so I can't play this game. Any volunteer?  

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As far as I understand it, both service menus and the Japanese utility are in flash. You can erase them, you can patch them, you can do whatever you want with them. But there is always a possibility to bootstrap the device, as the very basic first-stage bootloader resides in ROM and has a built-in possibility to restore the flash. There is an instruction for doing that, the link on it was posted on this board quite a while ago, but I think it's possible to find it. Or maybe someone could post it here if he has it saved.
http://pocketworkstation.org/files/recover/

Of course I agree with you, ikm. Nice post , as usual

iamasmith, I wrote a simple partition restoration to the origianl root+user scheme in the installer, so you always have the choice to go back by rebooting again into the installer. So don't worry so much. Installer was written months ago, and I don't know how many people has tried it, but no complaint received, only congratulations... and fears

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New pdaXrom installer (to have just Root partition)
« on: August 10, 2004, 02:35:37 pm »
Hi!, good summer!  

I don't know anything about this error message. Never happened with a non-700. All this stuff remains untested on 700, you seem to be the first ones  . Maybe bcut is not working properly. It is just used to compare (into a loop) mtdnand with mtdparts and mtdtweak files. You can compare them by any other app or even by hand (just 80 Bytes).

I don't know if c700 kernel command line is just offseted from other z or is not compatible with this tweak. I will be able to investigate if you send me your mtdnand file  

Ash.

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You're welcomed!

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Quick post  

I've put vanished stuff here.

First of all, you can use testing tool (mtdparts_test.tar.gz). Just decompress into your running rom and exec ./test/mtdtest.sh. Report any problem or success.

If testing is ok, you should be able to use modified installer. Follow the instructions from pdaxrom site to prepare your flash card. Before rebooting your z, put files from new installer to your root dir of your flash card (overwrite updater.sh). Reboot in maintenance mode, as told by pdaxrom. Patch mtdparts with 2n option "NAND Flash repartition: only Root". If you have a 750 you should also update maintenance kernel. Reboot in maintenance mode. Install new rom with option 1. Reboot. Voilà.

The only known issue is with some 860s, wich are intermediate versions between 760s and later 860s. If it's your case (testing and new_installer-0.3.tar.gz will safely warn) you should use new-installer-fixed.tar.gz.

I think it's all

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Has any one tried this on a C700?


Nobody reported it    

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I would try it myself, but do not want to take a chance of bricking my Z.

I think the installer is mature. None has claimed about it  . And it takes very care before doing anything. Yourself. Also, I can mail you the testing tool, useful to check if everything is sane.


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I want to get the latest ROM updates and want to start to learn Linux, but am not sure where to start.


I suggest you to try other apps & roms to get practice. pdaXrom isn't hard, nor is my simple modified installer, but they are *not* targeted to Linux newbies

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Wow!!

I did NOT expected so much traffic here! Yes, I'm a bit offline lately...

Sorry all who tried to use the vanished modified installer. I can swear it was there before zug changed. Thank you Zazz to put it online again! I got the same problem trying to attach it again  

Congratulations to all who have run it successfully!

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piotr, I don\'t know why this happens to you. I\'ve not seen that on my z, and don\'t think it is related to have just the root partition. Also, I don\'t know how to fix it :wink:

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ps. What does your latest file?? If Ive installed pdaxrom on one partition should I check something with that script??
thanks


It is just a testing tool for people who are afraid to run installer directly  :wink: It runs in normal mode, not maintenance. If it succeeds, you can *safely* use modified installer.

Ash.

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The 760 setting worked, good call.  Any idea why?


The differences between 760 and 860 are very very few. Maybe early 860s are just 760s with a different kernel (for USB storage) and latest (another release, i presume) include more changes.

Then, it\'s easy to use modified installer. You can edit last version to change MTDCMD offset (and encode it to make usable as installer) or use version 0.2, which as a matter of fact was changed to suit (some) 860s.

If this happens to more people i can modify installer again to automate this thing.

Ash.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ScummVM
« on: May 21, 2004, 03:11:40 pm »
Yeeeaaahh! It works wonderfully! This is the program i missed more from Qtopia! Thank you, thank you!

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OK, I tried it on my 860 w/o success.  The file doesn\'t want to stay attached, the contents are below:

nd:7168k@0k(smf),k@7168k(root),-(home) ZAURUS_RESET=HARD jffs2_orphaned_


The problem is that if you paste it as text, I can\'t see nulls. However, it seems your offset is different from other 860s!! It is 24 bytes less than 0X20A0C. Can you try to change offset to 0x209F4? (You just have to edit mtdtest.sh, line 23)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Problem with SIAG. pointer dont work properly.
« on: May 20, 2004, 04:57:15 pm »
The same thing happened to several people, including me, with pdaXrom 1.0.0. We had no solution. I think it just doesn\'t work

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Hi everybody!

At last I\'ve found some time to write and test a small utility to test if the kernel command line is recognized before trying modified installer. This tool works in any (I supose) running rom, not in maintenance mode, and does not modify anything on z. So, you can safely test it  

The testing routines are the same I wrote for modified installer, so if they succeed, you should not have any problem to use modified installer.

To use it, just untar to your z and run mtdtest.sh.

It will create a dump file (80 bytes) of your mtdparts kernel command line called mtdnand. If testing fails, plase report attaching it to your message, this will help me a lot  :wink:

Ash

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I installed with the new installer (0.3) on my C860 and it worked without
problems.


Good news. Congratulations!

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Maybe we should package some minmal and unobtrusive test script together with /sbin/nandlogical that does a pure read-only test and that can be run directly without booting into maintenance mode to have more people confirm their offsets without risk.


Good idea! I agree. Maybe this weekend I got some time  :wink:

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Strange.

Zazz, can you test the installer 0.3 in your unit? (Edit it to just check if you want, without installing ) I just added a line wich changes MTDCMD to the offset you told me. Maybe there are two 860 versions?

Fabian, can you post mtdnand anyway, without trying to patch your z? (you can dump it even with a running system)

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