My player was working just fine, then I went to change tracks. Once I selected a new playlist, the W icon came on and the songs never loaded. The player is stuck on 0:00. I can skip to the next track, but it still won't play. The W icon stays lit and the hard drive icon blinks once in a while. Rebooting the player works okay, it finds the disks, loads the player software and database, but then gets stuck. For some reason, I can no longer select any other playlists. If I try, the player just displays the hourglass icon forever.

So, I don't understand how it can load the software and player database but hang after that.

Bad track or something?

I can view the serial output during boot until:
<yellow>hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21</yellow>

At that point, I get no more data displayed. I can't do a Q to get the bash prompt. I can't connect via emplode... nothing.

The only thing I seem to be able to do is boot the player and install HiJack. I would almost guess that one of the drives isn't responding but the boot process shows no errors. (?)

Full boot log if there are any clues:

Quote:
On DC power, quick boot

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v459 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Mon May 8 00:10:29 EDT 2006
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: passed.
c1100000: passed.
c1200000: passed.
c1300000: passed.
c1400000: passed.
c1500000: passed.
c1600000: passed.
c1700000: passed.
c1800000: passed.
c1900000: passed.
c1a00000: passed.
c1b00000: passed.
c1c00000: passed.
c1d00000: passed.
c1e00000: passed.
c1f00000: passed.
c2000000: passed.
c2100000: passed.
c2200000: passed.
c2300000: passed.
c2400000: passed.
c2500000: passed.
c2600000: passed.
c2700000: passed.
c2800000: passed.
c2900000: passed.
c2a00000: passed.
c2b00000: passed.
c2c00000: passed.
c2d00000: passed.
c2e00000: passed.
c2f00000: passed.
c3000000: passed.
c3100000: passed.
c3200000: passed.
c3300000: passed.
c3400000: passed.
c3500000: passed.
c3600000: passed.
c3700000: passed.
c3800000: passed.
c3900000: passed.
c3a00000: passed.
c3b00000: passed.
c3c00000: passed.
c3d00000: passed.
c3e00000: passed.
c3f00000: passed.
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102609) 64MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m noinitrd
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63676k/64M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 848k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
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 65536 bhash 65536)
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 UA
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x97364
Tuner: loopback=1, ID=-1
Forced AC/Home mode
Scheduling custom logo.
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 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: HTS548080M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: HTS548080M9AT00, 76319MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, 76319MB w/7884kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
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:d7:26:0a:3
1
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k init
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
empeg 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 pla
player redirected to /proc/ttyH
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
hijack: removed menu entry: "Font Display"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Show Flash Savearea"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Volume Level on Boot"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21

Scratching my head on this one....