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New MessageImage Flashing Problem (modified 0 times) wildbi111
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I'm still getting the following i/o error when flashing any midori image to the internal san disk from a CFCard using dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda count=31296

dd: /dev/hda: Input/output error
6935+0 records in
6934+0 records out

Then on bootup for the internal san disk there are disk errors reported when starting X followed by a segmentation fault then a root prompt. I've flashed two different cf cards (16mb and 64mb) using two different methods (W2K/Diskprobe and Linux/dd). Up until a few weeks ago I'd been running with the midori 2 image (midori-new.img) just fine but when I went to flash the internal san disk with midori_3.img the above errors cropped up.

Does anyone have any idea what has happened and hopefully how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

03-30-2002 10:22:52

New MessageRE:Image Flashing Problem (modified 0 times) MercenaryForHire
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To quote JangoFett from an earlier topic:

"I had the same problem. The default Midori install does in fact take you into X after bootup. The problem was somewhere in copying my image over. Be sure and use FDisk on your CF card. Go over all the instructions again for copying over the image. I know it's a lame answer but somewhere in those steps I made a mistake. I did it a second time and the machine booted up fine. Also one other thing that may help is when downloading the file make sure it gets named properly. Windows wanted to download it as an image type (ie. gif, jpg). When in DOS on 98 the file will show up as midori.img.img but you can't see that all you'll see is midori.img~ or something like that.
It's worth the effort it is a really good build and works well with the On/Off button. Hope this helps.

/Shane"

Good advice. Only thing I might add is to ensure a good BIOS clear (short for at LEAST 5 seconds, I'd go for 10 myself) and other than that pray your internal Sandisk isn't b0rked. :P

Merc

03-30-2002 23:49:18

New MessageRE:Image Flashing Problem (modified 0 times) mezman
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When I had that problem it turned out that downloading the image using netscape game me the wrong file size. It worked when I downloaded the image using mozilla.

Hope that helps.

04-02-2002 18:52:57

New MessageRE:Image Flashing Problem (modified 0 times) geo_fr
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I've just bought a new IA-1 (I've already a Clipper IA1)
I've the same problem when I try to DD this new unit ...

How do you solve this problem ?


--== Geo ==--
10-19-2003 13:18:03

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