I made the upgrade with the (car2-builder.upgrade) file from the empeg homepage. It succeeded sucessfully.
After rebooting the player it displays "partitioning hd" and so on. But at the stage makeing directories it stoped for over 15 minutes. The serial log says:
Function entered at [<400c782c>] from [<0200c31c>]
r10 = 4002110C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 0200C2F8 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 40021A0C
init: permission fault on section, address=0xe5932200, code 2
pc : [<020131c0>] lr : [<0200f434>]
sp : bffff5ec ip : ffffd800 fp : bffffe24
r10: 4018c134 r9 : 02067930 r8 : 02080080
r7 : bffff62c r6 : bffffc6c r5 : 000000f0 r4 : 000000f0
r3 : e5932100 r2 : fffffffe r1 : 00000000 r0 : 0207d334
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: D03B917D Table: D03B917D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<0200f1c8>] from [<0200f034>]
r8 = 02080080 r7 = 0200C3D4 r6 = 400217C0 r5 = 00000000
r4 = 02081FCC
Function entered at [<0200efac>] from [<0200f154>]
Function entered at [<0200f078>] from [<0200ed88>]
Function entered at [<0200ebfc>] from [<0200cd10>]
Function entered at [<0200c3d4>] from [<400c795c>]
r7 = 0200C3D4 r6 = 400217C0 r5 = 00000002 r4 = BFFFFF04
Function entered at [<400c782c>] from [<0200c31c>]
r10 = 4002110C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 0200C2F8 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 40021A0C
init: permission fault on section, address=0xe5932200, code 2
pc : [<020131c0>] lr : [<0200f434>]
sp : bffff5ec ip : ffffd800 fp : bffffe24
r10: 4018c134 r9 : 02067930 r8 : 02080080
r7 : bffff62c r6 : bffffc6c r5 : 000000f0 r4 : 000000f0
r3 : e5932100 r2 : fffffffe r1 : 00000000 r0 : 0207d334
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: D03B917D Table: D03B917D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<0200f1c8>] from [<0200f034>]
r8 = 02080080 r7 = 0200C3D4 r6 = 400217C0 r5 = 00000000
r4 = 02081FCC

and so on ...

I powered off the empeg and updated the player once again with "car2-builder.upgrade" image. The upgrade wizward says "The upgrade has succesfully been applied" but after this it doesn't reboot at all!

The serial log always says:
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)) #13 Sun Aug 27 17:35:36 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 80000251)
Command line: mem=12m temp=38
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 d0004e80).
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-EASA-218101 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-EASA-218101 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-EASA-218101 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, 8063MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=16383/16
/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:d7:10:00:f
b
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
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)
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XT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

There seems to be a problem with the disc. Maybe a manual filecheck would help, but how do I get a shell prompt?
Any ideas?

Thanks
Rene