Author Topic: 5600/PXA250 and Special Kernels - actual reliability? (Read 10495 times)

nixmeister · « **Reply #15 on:** May 05, 2004, 08:44:35 am »

Format? I thought that was only for full distro flashes, doesn\'t that replace the whole filesystem? I didn\'t think that was needed just to put in a new kernel.....
Can someone verify that you have to format after flashing the special kernel? And what will this delete???

Greg2 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 05, 2004, 09:10:37 am »

When reading your post it sounded like you were switching from sharp to zynergy and back. If not, then just a hard reset after the flash will do...sorry for the confusion.

Greg

cgrieves · « **Reply #17 on:** May 05, 2004, 07:13:59 pm »

Thanks for the replies, I formatted and reflashed back to \"factory\" settings with the standard kernel , reinstalled the apps I wanted, got Exult and scummVM working ( ) and didn\'t experience any hangs. So with that as my benchmark I\'ve installed the 1.3 Special Kernel and left it at stock CPU speed. I\'ll let you know how I get on....

nixmeister · « **Reply #18 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:10:15 am »

Well, I\'m kinda stuck in the same place. I have no fdisk on my Z to change the partition type to fat-16, and the link to the .ipk is busted on the killefiz. I think it\'s most strange that the whole process \"completes\". It runs the update, I see the progress bar move across, and then it either resets, or asks me to reset (depending on whether I\'m using the sharp updater.sh or the zynergy updater). Once I boot up, I\'m still running the old kernel. Man, this is way easier on my linux desktops
make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
lol

While I\'m looking for fdisk for my Z, anyone have any other clever ideas on how to get this working for zynergy5600?

Seems no one else has had problems with this. Why me?
Is it possible to flash from SD? Maybe my CF card has gone bad. Although, I\'ve flashed lots of stuff from it with no problems, even being a vfat fs according to mount...

Again, thanks for the help on his one folks. I can\'t wait to get this working Tumnus!

tumnus · « **Reply #19 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:18:18 am »

Are you sure you\'ve got the right zImage.bin? The md5sum I get for the 1.3 version of the Special kernel is 0f74ae87540767158b3e7caa675a88ce

nixmeister · « **Reply #20 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:19:46 am »

I\'ll find out ina second, I just tried the flash again from my SD card.......
Tumnus, I think I need to start up a support contract with you for all this help. How much?

nixmeister · « **Reply #21 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:21:53 am »

errrm. Ok, different checksum. Lemme download it again....

nixmeister · « **Reply #22 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:34:28 am »

OMG I\'m such an idiot. 231 dhrystone. Ok, Tumnus, you rule. I don\'t know what happened there. I clearly was flashing SOME kernel, just not yours
Did I ever tell you you\'re my hero.....you\'re everything I wish I could be.... I can fly higher than an eagle....you are the wind beneath my wings........

nixmeister · « **Reply #23 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:51:29 am »

Wow. over clocked to 471, I cranked out a 270 on the dhrystone. Wow. Tumnus, you rock. Thanks a ton man!!!

ChrisZaurus · « **Reply #24 on:** May 07, 2004, 02:01:54 pm »

Hello,

I have recently purchased a SL-5600, PXA250 - I have installed the zynergy rom, and it works great. I want to install that special kernel, but I am having no luck. I\'ve tried flashing it with the zynergy updater.sh and the zImage_Special5600_No_Preemptive_No_Overclock-c860ROMv1.10.bin file (ver 1.3 right?), which i\'ve renamed to zImage.bin, which I put both files in the root dir of my SD card (this card does also have other files on it... Documents dir, and some more dir in there). When I initiate the update process, it says \"modprobe: cant locate module devprobe\" (that is on the Sharp screen), after that it says ----Zaurus SD Updater ----- Please Reset. I do the same reset process, and then boot up as normal, what am I doing wrong? Should I format?

Thanks For Your Help!

ChrisZaurus · « **Reply #25 on:** May 08, 2004, 05:35:42 pm »

Okay, I tried flashing with the Sharp version of updater.sh, and it worked. Great.

guh · « **Reply #26 on:** May 10, 2004, 10:47:34 am »

What information is given for the kernel version when it\'s OK ?

tumnus · « **Reply #27 on:** May 10, 2004, 10:54:55 am »

Look for \"colin@paravel\" and a compile date of 29 Feb 2004 in /proc/version

guh · « **Reply #28 on:** May 10, 2004, 11:09:05 am »

OK, it\'s the good one then, it worked

loji · « **Reply #29 on:** September 16, 2004, 09:42:19 am »

I've been using a japanese special kernel for awhile now... and it works wonderfully on my 5600. it's the 1.4b kernel ..

Its' got all the wireless modules, and supports my Linksys card out of the box. It's clocked to the 479MHz max. It also has a customboot process, tux is in the corner, and you can actually see what the hell is going on with your system :-) Plus I notice it's doing an Inode check everytime it boots up.

I'm very pleased with it

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Author Topic: 5600/PXA250 and Special Kernels - actual reliability? (Read 10495 times)