My empeg 2 has mysteriously stopped working! All I get is the No hard disk found; Pleas contact support with a lovely dead mandrake penguin. I ref;ashed the image just to make sure there was nothing there unplugged hardrive and reconnected everything. Still no luck. I can access the HiJack kernel options and everything except for the hard drive. Help! I don't want to loose everything!

Please hook up to your empeg using a serial (null modem) cable, connect to it with a terminal program, and post the output here so we can get an idea what might be wrong.

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([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!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg51-hijack-v291 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jul 31 10:10:42 EDT 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101678)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15076k/16M available (928k code, 20k reserved, 356k 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)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
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 206f6972 'rio '
Found custom animation at offset 0x9a790
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 d0004800).
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...
Probing primary interface...
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:d7:22:06:8e
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: Cannot open root device 03:05
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs


- i think my high quality IBM travelstar hardrive is dead...

It's probably the HDD died or the Cable. Did you try plugging the drive into the free connector on the IDE cable.

MoRoToRiUm, have you read this yet?

Once again hats off to Tony. YOU ARE GOD!

Bad IDE cable. Works fine when I have the hardrive on the second connector. Contacted support so hopefully I get a replacement for free. Thanks again!

Careful, talk like that might go to my head.

Thanks, glad you're working again.

...that goes contrary to popular belief here that Patrick is God. Unless you are a polytheist