Im having trouble getting emphatic working. Im trying to use the @EXEC way of running it this time instead of preinit like I have in the past and it is not showing up in the hijack menu. Here's what I have done:

1) put emphatic in /drive0/var using rz through hyperterminal (I was too lazy to walk downstairs to my router to plug it in down there and ftp)

2) added notify=1 and ;@EXEC_ONCE /drive0/var/emphatic

Is there more that I need to do than this? It is not even showing up in the hijack menu. Any help would be appreciated.

My guess is that when you used Zmodem to xfer emphatic to your empeg, it wasn't written with executable permissions. Drop to a shell and type chmod +x /drive0/var/emphatic and see if that helps your cause. Otherwise, post a serial boot log for more information.

I just did this and when I tried to mount read only to exit out, it said /drive0 is busy. I dont want to exit without doing this so what should i do. I have a very limited knowledge of linux.

Umm. Maybe there's a process running that's using /drive0.. Quite possibly emphatic.

Run this:

ps -ef

And if you see anything running on the music partition (emphatic, or whatever else) kill it by noting the process ID (the number in the first column) and typing:

kill 123

assuming the process ID is 123. Then try running rom and ro again to mount read-only. My guess is you botched the chmod command and accidentally ran emphatic.

Thanks. That worked to let me mount read only but emphatic still isn't showing up in the hijack menu. So here is the boot log you asked for...

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)-xr-x 4 0 0 1024 Feb 6 2000
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,0 0 1024 Aug 28 1999 var............ done, booting the kern
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!drive-: No such file or directoryrmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v312 (root@ibbm)

e000 v1.04 cd /drive
Copying kernel...
empeg:/drive0#
Calling linux kernel...
total 476
.3
-
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
Processor: Intel StrongAR
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0
l.12
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v312 (root@i.94.1 (c) 1

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS 501718 Jan 13 2033 database
Memory: 14996k/16M available (992k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4k init) 0 18664 Jan 13 2033 playlists conformance testing by UNIFIX
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k) 1 0 0 377 Jan 13 2033 t
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
empeg:/drive0/var# mv emphatic /drive0/var

Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2 emphatic: No such f

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0otocol (Dag Brattli)
empeg:/drive
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP/drive0# mv emphatic /drive0
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)create regular file `/drive0/var/emphatic': Read-only
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)rq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
empeg:
IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
empeg:/drive0# mv emphatic /
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 120832 Jan 13 2033 fidsre
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UARTund cust
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 12
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UARTialised.
empeg dsp

empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg RDS driver
-rw------- 1 0 0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.(first boot)
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012 18664 Jan 13 2033 playlists
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005600).-r--r-- 1 0 0 377 Jan 13 2033 tagse...
empeg RDS driver initialisedhda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK

empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
empeg:/drive0/var# l

SMC9194:
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63 0 18664 Jan 13 2033 playlists
empeg-flash driver initialized
e
Partition ch
-rw-r--r--
smc chip id/revision 0x3349 377 Jan 13 2033 tags
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)empeg:/drive0/var# ro
empeg:/drive

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:10:agout
Shell exit
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds ToStarting play
er

hijack_do_execve: execve() failed, errno = 2
hijack_exec("/drive0/emphatic"), rc=-2 (ERROR)
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000

Well, your output says you actually added
;@EXEC_ONCE /drive0/emphatic

I think. Is that really where it is?

Yeah, what he said. errno -2 is "file not found" so I think your EXEC_ONCE entry is broken.

Yep, that was it. I forgot to include the var in the config.ini. Thanks for your help. I got it working now. This sure is a lot easier than doing it the old preinit way now that I know how to do it this way.