Author Topic: Zaurus Died Flashing 3.5.2  (Read 2770 times)

Elleomea

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Zaurus Died Flashing 3.5.2
« on: December 08, 2004, 07:11:58 pm »
Just tried flashing to 3.5.2 and my SL5500 now won't boot at all; the power light doesn't come on with the lead plugged in and no lights come on when I try to reflash it. I've flashed to 3.5.1 successfully in the past, and using the same CF card. Anything I can try to get it working again? I'd thought it wasn't possible to totally ruin a Zaurus with OpenZaurus since it didn't touch the flashing section of the Zaurus unlike the Sharp ROM.

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Zaurus Died Flashing 3.5.2
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2004, 07:16:27 pm »
Hmm; put the 3.3.5 files back on the CF card and it flashed fine. Which is odd, since it wasn't even attempting to start flashing with the 3.5.2 files still on there (even though it had flashed with them to get in to that state).

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Zaurus Died Flashing 3.5.2
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2004, 10:55:18 pm »
Check your md5sums. They're there for a reason. I've seen the 5500/5000 and 6000L flavours both work on OPIE and GPE.
It works like this-
With your flash files and the corresponding md5sums.txt file in the same directory, do the following:
md5sum -b --check md5sums.txt

If you use Windows, try one of the following links, gratuitously ripped off from the Openoffice.org web site:

    *  http://etree.org/cgi-bin/counter.cgi/software/md5sum.exe
    * http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/md5sum.exe
    * http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dpc2a/cdr/md5sum.exe
    * http://openwebmail.lagmonster.org/download...5sum/md5sum.exe
    * http://www.2bright.net/download/md5sum.exe
    * http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip
    * http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/m...dows/md5sum.exe
The Windows version will work the same, but you don't need to specify -b.

Ah, what the hey. It's 48 KB. I'll attach the Windows version here.
« Last Edit: December 08, 2004, 10:56:23 pm by orac »