I've been messing about with the database files (not important why right now) and now when I try to reboot the empeg the player app continually restarts.

The trouble is that I cannot now do anything with the empeg. I have Hyperterminal connected and can see all the serial output, but I cannot stop the player from re-loading. Pressing q simply doesn't do anything. The keypress IS recognised as it appears on screen, but it doesn't stop the player.

CNTRL-T performs the RAM test OK.

I just need to stop the player so I can access the files and fix the problem. Isn't there someway to boot the empeg but NOT start the player app?

Failing that I can only think I have to re-flash the OEM Developer image and then re-install Hijack (sigh). Surely there's a better way?

OK, I've figured how to use CTRL-C to halt the player on bootup (did try it bofore, but didn't seem to work). But I deleted the databases and the player still crashes with a 'segmentation fault'. I suspect this is my fault as I re-booted the player while still in rw mode - my fault, too much late night scripting.

So, I'll re-flash with a new image, but while I have seen mention of a 2.01 final, I can only find 2.00. From where can I download 2.01?

2.01 is only useful if you have added extra memory to the Empeg, but you will find it here: http://www.empeg.com/v3alpha/

It's happened again. Something has got screwed up and it won't reboot cleanly.

Once I'd unmounted the second drive and fsck'd / and /drive0 it is now happy again and the player starts ok, but I cannot fsck /dev/hdc4. I just get the following error:-

no room for private writable mapping
error: -12
fsck.ext2: Memory allocation failed while retrying to read bitmaps for /dev/hdc

Any suggestions as to what has happened here and how to correct it?

Is there a binary available to enable me to format a single specified drive, so I don't have to start from scratch again or delve into the hardware in order to disconnect a drive each time?

Did you enable swap?