Hugo wrote:
"You have to hit Ctrl-T the *instant* you get the first message from the empeg (the bit that ends "peace..." and pauses for maybe 3/4 of a second). If you miss this, it won't enter the test."

Mine doesn't even pause for a split second...

Here's one of the weird boots...

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux.................................... done, booting the kernel
.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg35 ([email protected]) (gcc vers
ion 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #19 Fri Aug 4 15:58:47 BST 2000
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000289)
Command line: mem=12m temp=47
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 11000k/12M available (968k code, 20k reserved, 292k data, 8k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
empeg display initialised.
empeg dspaudio driver initialized
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg infra-red support initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005100).
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63
hdb: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:10:01:2
1
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 8k initempeg-car 1.0.
iput: device 03:44 inode 1034 still has aliases!

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux.................................... done, booting the kernel
.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg35 ([email protected]) (gcc vers
ion 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #19 Fri Aug 4 15:58:47 BST 2000
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000289)
Command line: mem=12m temp=47
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 11000k/12M available (968k code, 20k reserved, 292k data, 8k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
empeg display initialised.
empeg dspaudio driver initialized
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg infra-red support initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005180).
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63
hdb: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:10:01:2
1
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 8k initempeg-car 1.0.
iput: device 03:44 inode 1034 still has aliases!
kmem_free: Bad obj addr (objp=c094a8a0, name=dentry_cache)
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
memmap = D0394000, pgd = c0b94000
*pgd = d0380001, *pmd = d0380001, *pte = c000000b, *ppte = c000000a
Internal error: Oops: 0
CPU: 0
pc : [] lr : []
sp : c08f5e2c ip : c08f5dd8 fp : c08f5e48
r10: c0102228 r9 : ffffffff r8 : 00000003
r7 : 00000000 r6 : c0145620 r5 : c094a8a0 r4 : c094a89c
r3 : 60000013 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000001 r0 : 0000003e
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: D039517D Table: D039517D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 16, stackpage=c08f5000)
Stack:
c08f5e00: c001a3
90
c08f5e20: c002b30c 60000013 ffffffff c094a8a0 c0aa4540 00000000 fffffffa c08f5e
74
c08f5e40: c08f5e4c c003fea0 c002b124 00000007 00000013 00000006 00320000 000000
00
c08f5e60: c0bbb980 00000000 c08f5e84 c08f5e78 c00402b8 c003fd68 c08f5ea0 c08f5e
88
c08f5e80: c002c64c c004028c 00000001 00000013 c090f430 c08f5eb8 c08f5ea4 c002c7
c8
c08f5ea0: c002c5c8 0031d000 00000013 c08f5ee8 c08f5ebc c002d39c c002c7a4 000000
00
c08f5ec0: 0031d000 c0138610 c090f430 00320000 00000000 c0bbb980 c090f430 c08f5f
14
c08f5ee0: c08f5eec c0025988 c002d318 0031d000 c0138610 c0bbb980 00003000 000080
00
c08f5f00: 00000000 c090f430 c08f5f5c c08f5f18 c0025f5c c0025960 0001f000 000000
00
c08f5f20: 00000000 0031d000 c00262f8 c08f5f60 c0bbb994 c0bbb994 c0bbb980 000000
00
c08f5f40: 00008000 4043a000 be9ffce0 4043a000 c08f5f84 c08f5f60 c00263d8 c0025c
5c
c08f5f60: 00005000 00003000 4043f000 00000000 c0bbb980 ffffffea c08f5fb0 c08f5f
88
c08f5f80: c0030f94 c002636c c08f5fb0 c08f5f98 00000016 c000b1a8 00000003 c08f40
00
c08f5fa0: c08f5ff4 00000000 c08f5fb4 c000b000 c0030e80 00000016 00000016 4043a0
00
c08f5fc0: 00008000 00000000 00000016 4043a000 00008000 00008000 00000016 be9ffc
e0
c08f5fe0: 4043a000 be9ffacc be9ffab0 be9ffab0 02067084 02098824 60000010 000000
16
Backtrace:
Function entered at [] from []
r7 = FFFFFFFA r6 = 00000000 r5 = C0AA4540 r4 = C094A8A0
Function entered at [] from []
r10 = 00000000 r9 = C0BBB980 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00320000
r6 = 00000006 r5 = 00000013 r4 = 00000007
Function entered at [] from []
Function entered at [] from []
r6 = C090F430 r5 = 00000013 r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [] from []
r5 = 00000013 r4 = 0031D000
Function entered at [] from []
r10 = C090F430 r9 = C0BBB980 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00320000
r6 = C090F430 r5 = C0138610 r4 = 0031D000
Function entered at [] from []
r10 = C090F430 r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00008000 r7 = 00003000
r6 = C0BBB980 r5 = C0138610 r4 = 0031D000
Function entered at [] from []
r10 = 4043A000 r9 = BE9FFCE0 r8 = 4043A000 r7 = 00008000
r6 = 00000000 r5 = C0BBB980 r4 = C0BBB994
Function entered at [] from []
r5 = FFFFFFEA r4 = C0BBB980
Function entered at [] from []
r8 = C08F5FF4 r7 = C08F4000 r6 = 00000003 r5 = C000B1A8
r4 = 00000016
Code: e129f003 e3a02000 (e5822000) e91ba8f0 e1a01005

Frozen at this point...

- Jon