Not Picking Up New Rom Files.

[DaveWRX]

I have downloaded the Open Zaurus gqe ROM image for the SL5500 and went through the instructions on the Open Zaurus website. I renamed the files as stated in the Install instructions and when i try to Flash it can't pick up the files. The files are named right, and the CF card is formated fine.

Can anyone please advise.

Cheers

Dave

[JohnKiniston]

I have downloaded the Open Zaurus gqe ROM image for the SL5500 and went through the instructions on the Open Zaurus website. I renamed the files as stated in the Install instructions and when i try to Flash it can't pick up the files. The files are named right, and the CF card is formated fine.

Can anyone please advise.

Cheers

Dave
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Not all CF cards will flash.

What format is your card?

Will it mount in the Zaurus and can you see it in the terminal under /mnt/cf ?

What filenames do you see in /mnt/cf ?

[DaveWRX]

I have downloaded the Open Zaurus gqe ROM image for the SL5500 and went through the instructions on the Open Zaurus website. I renamed the files as stated in the Install instructions and when i try to Flash it can't pick up the files. The files are named right, and the CF card is formated fine.

Can anyone please advise.

Cheers

Dave
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Not all CF cards will flash.

What format is your card?

Will it mount in the Zaurus and can you see it in the terminal under /mnt/cf ?

What filenames do you see in /mnt/cf ?
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I think its Fat 32, i never formatted it, it was how it came.
I could mount the CF and the files were called zimage and initrd.bin. When i look at the files on the Zaurus the show up as though it doesn't reconize them. Is this right.

I have now managed to upgrade but it isn't the one i want. I upgraded through myzaurus.com which the zaurus can stay in the docking station and upgrades from my PC.. Is this ROM ok or should i still try another one. I was after the openzaurus but don;t really know the difference as new to this.

Cheers
Dave

[lardman]

Go for OpenZaurus, it's btter than the Sharp ROMs IMHO.

As mentioned, some CF cards aren't good for flashing. This can sometimes be fixed by reformatting, or removing the existing partition and re-creating it, but before you try those, make sure that the initrd.bin and zImage files have the correct md5sums as this often catches people out (corrupt download).


Si

P.S. If the card is actually fat32 you may need to re-format it as fat16, here's a link to fdisk: http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=156

[DaveWRX]

I actually borrowed the CF card from a mate at work and gave it back today, Don't think he'd be to happy if i reformated it. Is there another way of flashing or does it have to be done from the CF, I have an SD.

What do you meen by md5sums......sorry if that sounds stupid but am learning.

Thanks

[dougeeebear]

  I could mount the CF and the files were called zimage and initrd.bin

zImage is case sensitive (with a capital "I") if that helps any

[DaveWRX]

  I could mount the CF and the files were called zimage and initrd.bin

zImage is case sensitive (with a capital "I") if that helps any
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I didn't even think of that, I have a CF card on order now from shirtpocket.com, Will try again when i get it.

Thanks for all the help people

Dave

[lardman]

zImage is case sensitive (with a capital "I") if that helps any

Hmm, I'm not sure about this. In fact I think that zImage isn't case sensitive as fat16 doesn't store information about the case of filenames (though I've not done much extensive testing here).

For the 5500 is has to be a CF card to flash.

md5sums are checksums which allow you to see whether a file's internals have changed.

For windows try this: http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/md5sum/Windows/
(there are lots of others - try a google for 'md5sum windows').

Just do 'md5sum zimage' and md5sum initrd.bin' at a command prompt/cmd.exe session/msdos session and check the output against what it should be (see here: http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.2/sl500...00/md5sums.txt).


Si

[dougeeebear]

Hmm, I'm not sure about this. In fact I think that zImage isn't case sensitive as fat16 doesn't store information about the case of filenames (though I've not done much extensive testing here).
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You might be right about this, but I thought I read it somewhere on here.

Doug