Welll, burnt the 1.02 image using cdrecord and k3b (in case I somehow screwed up the cmd line parms). Same symptoms alas...

I must therefore conclude there's a hardware fault. But since I got the player to boot some time ago, and hooking up a keyb and hitting CAD gave me a 'invalid ELF header' on some shared object file (which if you hook the HD up to another machine gives you a perfectly valid ARM ELF binary) I think the problem is in the IDE bus (which also explains the system being unable to boot from the CD).

I think I will try and find somebody here in the Netherlands who has access to a logical analyzer - I'm pretty convinced that one of the 3.3/5V buffers is behaving awkward, but finding this using a plain scope will prove quite tricky.

Any advice is of course still appreciated.

And of course again, Matthew - thanks for putting the images online. Unfortunately it didn't help but it will help me further once the HW fault is isolated and fixed.

Jeroen