I connecting to my empeg, checking to bootlog after getting one of those USB to Serial adapters... The boot log looks all garbled up. Anyone have any tips on setting one of these up? Is the one I got too slow or something?

Running XP, Com8.

Here is the boot log:
empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)_chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filling up space (-21)
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filling up space (-21)
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!up space (-21)

e000 v1.04_chunk_cac
Copying kernel...:Filling up space
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne)

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spindown_chunk_cache_runner.cpp:
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Aug 4 00:27:49 EDT 2004
spindown_chunk_cache_runn
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:_cache_runner.cpp: 294:F
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
spindown_chunk
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102609) 16MB DRAM
spindown_chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294
Command line: mem=16m)
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS spindown_chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Fi
Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k code, 20k reserved, 368k d

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2.cpp: 294:Filling up space
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
spindown_chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Fill
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filli
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
spindown_chunk_cache_runne
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)

Starting kswapd v 1.5_runner.cpp: 294:Fill
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options ena

Found custom animation at offset 0x9877cche_runner.cpp: 294:Filling up space (-2
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.n_chunk_cache_runner.cp
empeg display initialised.1)
empeg dsp audio initialised
spindown_chunk_
empeg dsp mixer initialisedg up space (-21)
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0illing up space (-21)
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filling up space (
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012

spindown_chunk_cache_runne
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
spindown_chunk_c
empeg single channel IDEing up space (-21)
Probing primary interface...

hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK driveFilling up space (-21)
hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
spindown_chunk_cache_runne
hda: HTS548080M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filling up spa
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: HTS548080M9AT00, 76319MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)space (-21)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0a:3
spindown_chunk_cach
1r
Partition check:lling up space (
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
spindown_ch
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4ce (-21)
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filling up sp
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
spindown_chunk_cache_runner.cpp: 294:Filling u
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is rec


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...
Starting player
Timezone: America/Detroit
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Button Codes Display"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Button Illumination Level"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Font Display"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Show Flash Savearea"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Volume Level on Boot"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

Are you capturing to a file? Many times, screen buffer captures tend to show this kind of thing.

I agree with Paul. Capture to a file. Ditch hyperterminal if possible too. I'm guessing you are using cut and paste using hyperterminal.

This seems to happen quite often on boot log captures for some reason - probably the 115200 baud with no flow control doesn't help eventhough the average PC should be able to hand those kind of data rates.

Edit:
Oh and we use a large number of these USB-serial adapters quite successfully.

Looking at the log, it seems it's overwriting things. You can see player messages at the very beginning of log well before the player even starts.

Thanks everyone.

Not to sound terribly cheap.. but are any of those free? And if not, is there one you prefer for "empeg" type uses?

PuTTY is IIRC...

Teraterm is as well

Hmm. Yeah. Just ran it and it doesn't seem to support serial. I use SecureCRT for SSH and serial and it works great but it is expensive.

Teraterm works well. PuTTY does not (yet?) support serial connections.

TeraTerm Pro is working great! Thanks guys!