flash sl-5600 rom

[Anonymous]

I was reading up on the faq with open zaurus whose 3.5 package seems to support the sl-5600 now. It mentioned a concern that the Sharp rom does touch the bootloader and if it failed could damage your system.
If it did mess up, is it recoverable?


from openrom faq
Question
What happens if flashing my zaurus fails?
Answer
If flashing fails, do NOT worry. You can simply flash again. Flashing your Zaurus with OpenZaurus again will not harm or disable the use of your Zaurus (Note: This is not the case with the Sharp Rom, which can mess up while writing the bootloader. OZ does not touch the Zaurus bootloader).

Also, if your only means of accessing your CF card is via the Zaurus, it is advisable to have another CF card that contains the Sharp OSPACK (or ROMIMAGE in the case of SL-5000d) file handy in the highly unlikely event of something going wrong.

Submitter

[tumnus]

That is referring to the 5500/5000D flash process.

The 5600 flash process is quite different and a lot more fool proof. Even the Sharp ROM updates do not overwite the bootloader on the 5600.