I'm having a similar problem. After some other problems with my car stereo which I finally got working again I came back to look at my Empeg, and to add some more music to it. It is an early MkII with 12MB of RAM and now has 2x256GB disks in it. Anyway it was fine with about 100GB of music but then I added a load more and now it boots up to a "0000.-1 segfault err" every time.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Here is the boot:

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!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg55-hijack-v515 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jul 20 09:24:02 EDT 2011
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c0c00000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000452) 12MB DRAM
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10944k/12M available (996k code, 20k reserved, 324k data, 4k 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)
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
Signature is ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
show_message("Hijack v515 by Mark Lord")
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005b80).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
hdb: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xffff
hda: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, 238475MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, LBA48
hdb: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, 238475MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, LBA48
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:c4
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.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
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: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
kftpd: listening on port 21
khttpd: listening on port 80
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
show_message("0000.-1 segfault err")
player(8): user memory violation at pc=0x020e16c0, lr=0x0207cc44 (bad address=0x4056c000, code 0)
pc : [<020e16c0>] lr : [<0207cc44>]
sp : bffff7c0 ip : bffff7e0 fp : bffff7dc
r10: 00000000 r9 : bffffc24 r8 : 00000000
r7 : 4056bff8 r6 : 4056c000 r5 : 02153559 r4 : 0000000a
r3 : 00000030 r2 : 00000002 r1 : 02153550 r0 : 4056bff8
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: D033D17D Table: D033D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<020e1630>] from [<0207cc44>]
r7 = BFFFFC60 r6 = 02153550 r5 = 0000000A r4 = BFFFFC60
Function entered at [<0207cbf4>] from [<0205642c>]
r6 = 02135B80 r5 = 0214DA74 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020560b0>] from [<0206189c>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = 02112594 r8 = 0214DA68 r7 = BFFFFC60
r6 = 00000000 r5 = 02174E90 r4 = 00006301
Function entered at [<020617c0>] from [<020322fc>]
r7 = BFFFFD0C r6 = BFFFFD04 r5 = 0214F1AC r4 = 02174E80
Function entered at [<02032258>] from [<0200881c>]
r6 = BFFFFD08 r5 = 0214F1A4 r4 = BFFFFD04
Function entered at [<020087e4>] from [<0202fcbc>]
r5 = BFFFFD04 r4 = BFFFFD10
Function entered at [<0202fa0c>] from [<0202f758>]
r10 = BFFFFEE4 r9 = 00000001 r8 = 0214DA68 r7 = BFFFFEE8
r6 = 00000054 r5 = BFFFFD78 r4 = BFFFFD78
Function entered at [<0202f718>] from [<020316bc>]
r6 = 00000054 r5 = FFFFFFFF r4 = BFFFFD78
Function entered at [<02031464>] from [<020317ec>]
r10 = 02031788 r9 = 00000000 r8 = 02112280 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 020000C0 r5 = 00000001 r4 = BFFFFF64
Function entered at [<02031788>] from [<020c90c4>]
r5 = BFFFFF64 r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020c8fe8>] from [<02000104>]
r10 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000 r6 = 00000000
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 11
Starting player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

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