[Gllug] zaurus problem

[Ian Norton]

Hi Everyone,

Ive noticed recently that there are a number of zaurus users about,

I got my zaurus sl5500 about 5 weeks ago, ive been having some bother 
with it.

when it arrived (5 days after the seller warrenty ran out) from an ebay 
seller in canada it had OpenZaurus 3.2 installed, it all worked except 
that it was flashed to only have 12mb of storage, the rest of internal 
memory was for RAM,

so there i was, new machine, worked, I started fiddling,

it was at this point that i found that ipkg isnt as robust as stuff like 
dpkg or apt. i was trying to get my wifi card working (work on my 
laptop) when i read on the openzaurus site that i should try the newer c 
libraries and updated card services. so.. i proceeded to update these 
using my usb network connection.

well, ipkg didnt seem to realise it filled up the internal storage, so, 
consequently destroyed the c libraries,

now all i can do is to get it to boot right up to login, and of course, 
without any libs i cant do anything, not even get bash.

if this were a normal box i might have tried something like 
init=/bin/sash on the end of the kernel command line, but no such luck.

basically, ive given up trying to fix the install and decided to flash 
the machine to the newer openzaurus 3.3.5.

well, after experimenting with 4 different CF cards ive not been able to 
flash the device, i can however get into it's diag menu, everything 
seems good and all the tests pass.

im doing the usual flashing procedure,

format cf card as fat16, (mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/hde1)
copy the zImage and initrd.bin to the cf card
unmount it
put it into the zaurus,
press c + d and reset while plugged into AC,
nothing at all happens, not even a blink of an LED.

as it happens, all of the cf cards i have, turned out to be made by 
toshiba and i have a sneaking suspicion this could be the problem.

can anyone help? anyone willing to lend me thier CF card known to work 
when flashing one of these?

my next resort is to send it to sharp, but even if they do pick up the 
phone i expect it would be cheaper to buy another device. grrr...

regards

Ian

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