Hi

I was attempting to upgrade my hijack kernel to the latest one today. This is something I've done several times before without problem.
However, today the upgrade failed, and when I rebooted the player I was left with a blank screen and nothing much else.
I was using the Windows Logo Editor to upload the zImage. This is the output from the upload program:

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Trying to reboot the player now...

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- READY TO BEGIN SENDING DATA -
- -
- The player should reboot and the data -
- transfer should begin automatically. If -
- this doesn't happen within the next few -
- seconds, then do the following: -
- -
- UNPLUG the power from the empeg car player, -
- then PLUG IT IN again to begin the data -
- transfer process. -
- -
- Please do this now. -
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Error status in readbyte 2
Error status in readbyte 2

found empeg unit: entering program mode
Error status in readbyte 2
manufacturer=0009, product=88c1
waiting for prompt
starting erase [Error status in readbyte 2

Error: erasepage(10000) got code 100

Press the Enter key to continue.
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I took a look at the console output in HyperTerminal, and this is what I saw:
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empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([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!
(prefetch abort vector)
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This text doesn't always come out cleanly though, maybe that's a symptom of the problem (e.g. several characters are often skipped)

Any suggestions? I've read the FAQ but couldn't find anything useful, except checking my serial cable. But I've used the cable before with no problems, and have stored it safely since then.

I've tried the Rio Upgrade Wizard also, but no luck there. It complains with the following error:
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Error "Hardware revision check failed" occurred during stage 0x04
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Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
-Dan