Repair FS help

[sedgetone]

After trying OpenZaurus I decided to go back to the latest sharp rom on my 5500. I flashed it with the OSPACK and after a couple of minutes it rebooted itself and came up with a shell and complained that the file system was corrupt. It now give me to options
1, reboot... after which it dies and can\'t be started unless I flash it again
2, I get a prompt that comes up like the following

(Repair FS) #

I now have no idea how to fix my poor little zaurus :cry:

Help... anyone!!!!

Sedgetone

[ced]

try the \"format\" option in the maintenance menu...

[sedgetone]

I typed format and it said \"format not found\"

It comes up with the following message on boot:

Couldn\'t find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
Could this be a zero-length partion?
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/mtdblock1 is mounted

***An error occurred during
***the file system check
***Dropping you to a shell;
***the system will reboot
***when you leave the shell.
/etc/passwd: root password garbled
Give root password for maintence(or type Control-D for normal startup)


I then goes black if I do the Control-D and dies.

[sedgetone]

I;ve tried flashing it with OZ3.3.5 again as that was the last thing that worked... no joy. HELP

[lardman]

Switch off, take battery cover off, hit the hard reset button (inside the battery compartment), put cover back on, switch back on.

[sedgetone]

Tried that already but thanks any how. If I do what you suggest lardman it doesn\'t come back on, no matter how many resets or how long you hold the cancel key down. The only way to get any form of life out of it is to try and flash it again with any ROM image; I then get the above error message.

Sedgetone  :cry:

[novakane]

I got the same error, I\'m trying to switch back to the sharp ROMS from OPIE, did you ever get it fixed?

[klight]

Did you remove the CF card from the Z when booting?

[novakane]

ya, I got it fixed now.  I loaded Opie 3.3.5 on to it. Then loaded 3.10 overtop, removed the CF and it worked

[sunomi86]

ya, I got it fixed now.  I loaded Opie 3.3.5 on to it. Then loaded 3.10 overtop, removed the CF and it worked
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That didn't seem to work for me. Anyone please help on this problem! I thought it would be something internal thats the problem but not sure. Thanks guys

[craigtyson]

Might not be related, but l went back to the tkc rom from oz, i first used a busted image so had to download anew.
have you tried downloading a new image.

[sunomi86]

I'm actually attempting to flash the Sharp 3.10 rom and the other roms dont like even flash either. And yeah i tried dling files again. no cigar. any other suggestions?

[craigtyson]

Only one question.  When you reflash are you connected to power?  Iv tried without once or twice and got vairied results sometimes it worked sometimes not.

[sunomi86]

Yeah I am connected to power when I reflash. And then the lights both stay on for like 2 mins, then the lights stop flashing, and then suddenly the screen turns on by itself with a whole mess of error text and the repair fs thing. From there on I can't get anywhere. Thanks for your help. Any other suggestions?

[craigtyson]

if it was a PSION id say put it in the fridge (uesd to wipe all the memory and about the only way to get it backif you forgot your power on pqssword) but with a zaurus iv no idea.  Will SHARP do a reflash (hollow laugh)?