Here is my boot capture. I've tried Cntrl+C, Q, and Cntrl-Break
Empeg screen says Building music databases...

or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v445 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Mar 11 11:11:45 EST 2006

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

Checking for extra DRAM:

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40104282) 16MB DRAM

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k data, 4k 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)

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

Signature is 67706d65 'empg'

Found custom animation at offset 0x9dfb8

Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1

Scheduling custom logo.

empeg display initialised.

empeg dsp audio initialised

empeg dsp mixer initialised

empeg dsp initialised

empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0

empeg remote control/panel button initialised.

empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004700).

empeg RDS driver initialised

empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)

RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size

empeg single channel IDE

Probing primary interface...

hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive

hda: HTS421212H9AT00, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: HTS421212H9AT00, 114473MB w/7528kB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63

hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, 76319MB w/7884kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63

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:d7:28:10:ba

Partition check:

hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4

hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4

RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0

RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.

EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...

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...


hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"

khttpd: listening on port 80

kftpd: listening on port 21


Thanks in advance!

Sometimes this is because you've not got your serial connection configured correctly. In particular, check the flow control settings. It's all in the FAQ.

Failing that, ditch Hyperterminal: use TeraTerm (on Windows) or minicom (on Linux, etc.) instead.

I had a working Hyperterminal config on my pc that crashed the week before so I am having to start over on all my Empeg stuff for the PC. I used the settings from the FAQ, but I will try TeraTerm when I get home tonight. Thanks!

You might also want to try PuTTY. Newer versions have supposedly more stable serial support, and the user interface isn't nearly as bad as TeraTerm's. And it has other uses, too.

Re installed the developer 2.0 image and was able to get a bash prompt. Tried

ro
umount /dev/hda4 (Please note! The command is umount, not unmount.)
umount /dev/hdc4 (If you have only one hard disk, you may omit the lines that include /dev/hdc4.)
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync

and

ro
rom
fsck.ext2 -fay -b 32768 /dev/hda4

and

rwm (There will be a long pause)
rm /drive0/var/database
rm /drive0/var/database3
rm /drive0/var/tags
rm /drive0/var/playlists
rm /drive1/var/database
rm /drive1/var/database3
rm /drive1/var/tags
rm /drive1/var/playlists
(Note that some or all of those RM commands may not work, that's OK)
exit
(The player application will run and rebuild the databases; watch the screen and wait until it is done, then q out of it again...)
q
(This should exit the player application back to the shell prompt.)
rom
exit


But it still boots up to

Building music database

And sits there.

Running that fsck.ext2 without rebooting immediately afterwards might have caused some problems. The fsck on /, too.

I did the reboot after each of the 3 sections I listed in my earlier post as directed by the FAQ.

I do think it is a corruption problem as I wanted to see if my mp3 files were there, so I went to the fids directory and did ls -la and it hangs. I can hit Cntrl-C and cancel. If I do just ls I get a listing of all the files.

The fsck's I did as instructed in the FAQ did not report any errors. My troubles started when I was loading a new CD using jemplode and it froze in the middle.

Redid the

ro
umount /dev/hda4 (Please note! The command is umount, not unmount.)
umount /dev/hdc4 (If you have only one hard disk, you may omit the lines that include /dev/hdc4.)
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync
reboot
and all is now well!