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Sharp ROMs / Can't Boot

« on: December 01, 2004, 01:36:31 pm »

Okay... it's my fault. I moved the switch to "Replace battery" and back to stop a stubbornly slow application because I was too lazy to open a shell and kill it. But how do I fix it? Here's what happens.

I'm running the Crow ROM. I press the power button. The penguin appears, I get some messages, everything looks normal, it gives me the "Please wait for approximately one minute" screen, and there it hangs forever.

I can look at the SD card (where /home is) from my Linux laptop, and I think I can look at the internal storage on the Z by booting without the SD card in place so that I get a shell prompt. But what do I look for? I'm assuming some file is broken somewhere. Anyone know what I need to fix?

One thing it does say on boot is:

ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/mtdblock1 is mounted

Could be the problem maybe? But later it says /dev/mtdblock1: 2245/31360 files (1.6% non-contiguous)... so it's seeing something there. It looks like it knows that the filesystem has changed, and it's doing the regular Linux filesystem check. But then it doesn't boot. I've let it sit for an hour on the "one minute" screen. Should I be more patient, and let it sit for a day or two?  

Or am I faced with the unfortunate task of re-flashing the ROM, thereby losing all the WEP keys I've painstakingly entered in the Network app?

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Sharp ROMs / Can't Install Software

« on: November 15, 2004, 11:22:14 pm »

I'm using the Cacko/Crow ROMs on my SL-5000D. I finally picked up my Zaurus today after I hadn't used it in a while, and decided to install some software. But I can't!

* if I go to Add/Remove, it doesn't find any packages
* if I go to the File manager and look in /home/Documents/Install_Files, there are all kinds of .ipk files (including some I know I installed at one point) but "Open in Add/Remove" doesn't work. It opens up Add/Remove, but there are no packages listed
* if I go to a shell and type ipkg install {package name ending in .ipk} then it tells me there was an unexpected end-of-file on the several that I downloaded tonight.

I finally got my wireless CF card working, and I would like a browser on my Zaurus. Can't get anything to install! What do I do?

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Sharp ROMs / Can't see CF card

« on: October 21, 2004, 02:08:55 pm »

I just installed the Cacko ROM (the new beta with kernel 2.4.18) and now my SL-5000d can't see the CF card. That is, I get an icon in the taskbar when I insert it, and I can eject it, but in File Manager (or in a shell) it's always Not Available. I've tried several CF cards that were working when I was running OZ 3.5.1 or the stock Sharp ROM 1.3a. Any ideas?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Can't install anything on OZ 3.5.1

« on: October 20, 2004, 03:59:22 am »

I've got a 5000D and I've flashed the ROM with the 24/8 version of OpenZaurus 3.5.1. I got the Zaurus because I want to edit images and OpenOffice-type documents. I can't get any software at all to install. I put the .ipk files on the SD card, I run ipkg from the shell, it looks like it's doing stuff, but then it always gives some error or another-- either it can't satisfy a dependency for a package (even though package manager says it's already installled) or something else. Of course I always get the application icon in the launcher, and of course it doesn't work.

I want to be able to install and use:

1. Hancom Office programs
2. an image editor (Hancom paint, or qpaint, or visualq)
3. browser, ftp, gaim, wireless drivers for my CF WiFi card

...and that's really it. If I can install those things, I'll be happy. If I can't, then I'm not sure what the Zaurus will be useful for.

Anybody know what I should be trying?