That's the fun bit. The disk has been partially built. The root, scratch and swap partition are all there and should be okay. It is the music partition that is the issue - the filesystem build failed because there was not enough RAM to create it. It is a Mark2 12MB empeg trying to build a filesystem on a 100GB drive...

Is this drive currently bootable / did you load the player software? What kind of problems were you seeing that made you reflash. If you see: a bootable player that you cannot sync to or play any music from, you likely have a functioning root partition and swap. You might be able to boot into the standard kernel, break into shell, enable swap and create the music filesystem manually.

Steps to do this: (capture the session, please)

1) Make sure the 2.0 developer kernel is loaded.
2) Boot the empeg with hyperterm.
3) q to quit the player application and get to shell.
4) swapon /swapfile
5) Follow these steps for formatting and creating directories on the music partition. [Note: hdc4 assumes that the target is the second drive. For the primary drive, use hda4.]
6) rom; ro; exit

The player application will reload. I would recommend powering off and reflashing the 2.0 developer kernel again, just out of paranoia (should not be needed). Reboot the player and examine the boot log.

Edits: Lots of detail and supporting data added and some corrections entered.