Re: SL-5600 re-flashing ROM problem

On 9/14/06, Dirk Fischer <zeenewbian-/[email protected]> wrote:
> --- 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.
>

Again, I'm not sure as I don't have a 5600. The clamshells have a NAND
backup option. I don't think that the 5600 has NAND but....

> > 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 :)

Are you sure? There were a few "OSPack" releases for the 5500. Search
more on google for one for the 5600.

>
> 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
>


-- 
Justin Patrin

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