Oh boy! I reversed the IDE cable (second HD position on the board , first HD position on a 4GB laptop drive I pumped and i got this in the log!:
Code:
e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg55-hijack-v508 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jan 9 16:06:35 EST 2009
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103958) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15000k/16M available (996k 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'
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
show_message("Hijack v508 by Mark Lord")
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 d0005e00).
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...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xff80
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xff82
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xab80
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5580
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xff80
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xff82
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xab80
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5580
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbfaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xdf55
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbfaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xffff
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbfaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xdf55
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xffaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xdf55
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xffaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xdf55
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbfaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xdf55
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, 3909MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=7944/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0f:76
Partition check:
 hda: [PTBL] [993/128/63] hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initBuilder image
show_message("Builder image")
Setting up swapspace version 0, size = 16478208 bytes
Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -1)
Setting up swapspace version 0, size = 20639744 bytes
Adding Swap: 20156k swap-space (priority -2)
Tuning hda5
show_message("Tuning hda5")
tune2fs 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between check 0 seconds
Making hda4 filesysteshow_message("Making hda4 filesystem")
m
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
Linux ext2 filesystem format
Filesystem label=
15360 inodes, 977760 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
30 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
512 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736,

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Tuning hda4
show_message("Tuning hda4")
tune2fs 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between check 0 seconds
Mounting hda4
show_message("Mounting hda4")
Making directories
show_message("Making directories")
Remounting ro
show_message("Remounting ro")
hda4 completed
show_message("hda4 completed")
Zeroing hda3
show_message("Zeroing hda3")
/bin/cat: write error: No space left on device
Done!
show_message("Done!")
bash-2.01#


Now What! Scanning the faq and the archives like a mad man! Been out of music in the jeep with the empeg for a year since it broke at the grand canyon! Come back empeg i love you!
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