Garrett wrote:

> I updated my Opie from 0.9x to 1.03 recently and the package update
> from the command prompt (Opie Terminated) worked fine until I tried to
> start Opie. It hung with a statement about opie-login starting. Now I


The upgrade path from 0.9x to 1.03 ist not smooth at all- we had to change
way too many things.
The best you should do is to reflash the Z with the images from
http://www.hentges.net

Anything else will require a whole lot of effort which would run out of
scope of this group. If you still would like to recover without flashing, I
suggest to join people on IRC (look at my sig for contact information) and
get interactive help there.

Regards,

Oliver

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Oliver Fels
Feed manager/Coordination
Project OPIE- the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment
http://opie.handhelds.org
IRC: irc.freenode.net #opie #opie.de #openzaurus

In case anyone runs into this problem. I discovered that the 'Home'
key on the Zaurus, in combination with the keyboard can re-boot (soft)
(Home+b) and at least for me it booted into the root user when I
pressed (Home+r) however I haven't been able to duplicate this
reliably. I was able to get to a prompt as root and fix my Opie
install. Now she's purring like a kitten.. until the next time I
break something.

Hope someone finds this useful.

milamg@sympatico.ca (Garrett) wrote in message news:<384d8e88.0401231116.5292769a@posting.google.com>...
> I updated my Opie from 0.9x to 1.03 recently and the package update
> from the command prompt (Opie Terminated) worked fine until I tried to
> start Opie. It hung with a statement about opie-login starting. Now I
> can't get the Zaurus (5500) to boot at all. It gets to the Open
> Zaurus splash screen, gives the 'wait booting..' message and then
> beeps an alarm and switches to a blank screen.
>
> Is there any way to boot into just OZ at a command prompt w/o loading
> Opie? Must I re-flash my ROM to recover from this. I understand that
> under the Sharp ROM you could use the /? key to get to a boot menu of
> sorts but that doesn't appear to be available under OpenZaurus. Any
> help would be much appreciated.