Greetings!

Let's leave the 18 out for a minute.

You say that when you boot the 40 solo, it boots fine, but you cannot break into a shell. Can you see anything through emplode in that case? Are any of your audio files on the drive? Can you show a boot log of that case?
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Paul Grzelak
200GB with 48MB RAM, Illuminated Buttons and Digital Outputs