Re: SL-5600 re-flashing ROM problem

--- Justin Patrin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/14/06, Dirk Fischer <zeenewbian-/[email protected]>
> wrote:
[snip]
> > Here's the rundown:
> >
> > On a separate box I reformat CF card FAT & copy
> > zImage.bin, updater.sh & initrd.bin to it's root.
> > (These files all checked out with MD5)
> >
> > I stick the CF card in the 5600.
> > I reset the 5600.
> > I hold "OK" and "Cancel (On/Off)" and get the
> > Maintenance Menu.
> > I select "4. Update."
> > I select "2. CF."
> > I select "Yes" at the warning screen.
> >
> > The unit brings up a SHARP splash screen with the
> > message "Please wait for approximately 2 minutes."
> >
> > Then under the splash screen Appears:
> > "INIT: Ver 2.78 booting
> > modprobe: cannot locate module devinfo
> > INIT: entering runtime level: 5"
> >
> 
> That's very strange indeed. Perhaps you did
> something to the flashing
> mechanism by fooling around with mtdblock devices.

I had been trying to get the 5600 to talk to my Ubuntu
box via the USB cradle.  I'm pretty sure the only file
I altered was /etc/network/interfaces.  Or do you mean
there was a hardware bit I might have screwed up?

> I'm not familiar
> with the 5600 hardware, but do you have a full-flash
> backup to restore
> from? 

Unless that resides somewhere in the onboard
circuitry, then no.  If that was something I had to
have explicitly produced, then my bad.

> If not, is there a Sharp OSPack that you can
> flash?

I do not have any Sharp ROM/OS anything.  The 5600 was
a gift and Sharp says I have to send it back to them
if I want their OS put on it.  I'd hate to have to do
that since, at the very least, I'm learning something
bumbling around here :)

I'll keep banging away at it - in my copious spare
time :) - until I fix it or break it completely.

Dirk

SL-5600 running OZ 3.5.4 & Opie 1.2.1 under kernel 2.4.18
Ubuntu 6.06 on the desktop

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