OK, so here's what i'm getting, I put hijack and the alpha back on and this is what I'm seeing through hyperterm....

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
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 602:empeg-car 3.00-alpha3 2003/07/02.
! tunedb_disk.cpp :1182:Database size mismatch error.
LAC construct 0x400de008
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: killing process player
buffermem : 331776
page_cache_size : 428
nr_free_pages : 32
num_physpages : 4096
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

and it just keeps scrolling that....

On the screen it just says starting user poll thread...