Ok, you asked for it - here's Kate's bootup messages. I've got 2x2.1gb drives in my development machine, which is about 7 months old. It was the unit which did the CE/FCC tests and is pretty well travelled :)

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 ([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!


Clearing 8Mb of RAM...
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Linux version 2.2.9-rmk3-np9-empeg5 (altman@sleeper) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19990113/philb (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #271 Wed Jul 28 18:49:00 BST 1999
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
Calibrating delay loop... 208.08 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7120k/8M available (784k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
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
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.26 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
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver.
empeg audio driver initialized
empeg infra-red support initialised.
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg display initialised.
empeg state support initialised.
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg ACP driver initialised
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
hda: TOSHIBA MK2104MAV, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA MK2104MAV, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
ide1 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: TOSHIBA MK2104MAV, 2067MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63
hdc: TOSHIBA MK2104MAV, 2067MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda3 hda4
hdc: hdc4
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)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k init


(from here onwards is just my debug build, it does a debian boot. Shipping versions just go directly to the player)


version 2.76
Activating swap...
Checking root file system...
Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999)
/dev/hda1: clean, 4732/126480 files, 298973/503968 blocks
Calculating module dependencies... done.
Loading modules:
Checking all file systems...
Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999)
/dev/hda4: clean, 4761/277440 files, 1077485/1108800 blocks
/dev/hdc4: clean, 291/530432 files, 678387/2116768 blocks
Mounting local file systems...
/dev/hda4 on /drive0 type ext2 (ro)
/dev/hdc4 on /drive1 type ext2 (ro)
cp: /etc/nologin: No such file or directory
Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run
Initializing random number generator...
done.
Recovering nvi editor sessions... done.
Booting complete
Linux 2.2.9-rmk3-np9-empeg5

Hello, my name is kate
Thread 'ActiveTimeout' is pid 85.
Thread 'ActiveTimeout' is pid 86.
Thread 'ActiveTimeout' is pid 87.
Thread 'ActiveTimeout' is pid 88.
Thread 'ActiveTimeout' is pid 89.
Thread 'Main' is pid 83.
Thread 'Audio' is pid 90.
Thread 'Cache' is pid 91.
cache.cpp 30 ( 91): Caching thread started.
Thread 'Control' is pid 92.
Thread 'Keyboard' is pid 93.
Thread 'Remote' is pid 94.
Thread 'Mixer' is pid 95.
Thread 'Radio' is pid 96.
Thread 'VisualManager' is pid 97.
Thread 'Server' is pid 98.