I am using minicom under FreeBSD (also tried win2k hyperterminal) and since installing hijack I cannot get to the bash prompt. I see the dmesg info @ startup but I am unable to hit q.. it says you have 0 seconds to hit q and goes right by it.. How do I get this or change the delay for the prompt??


please help
::chris

The 0 seconds is a joke, you don't have to have a delayed prompt.

You have to press Enter after you press Q, but you can do it at any time after the player software starts.

I know you don't use Hyperterminal, but the settings and troubleshooting steps quoted here still apply: click here.

Ok, I have the same problem. I have been trying to figure out why I can't change my custom animation again. I have done everything up to re-building the HD. I figured it out today and found this thread. When I am in 1.03 I can log on through Hyperterminal (XP) and get the bash. When I have 2.0b11, I can get the bash. Once I install hijack, I can't get anything. I was able to upload animations with hijack 242, but nothing since 247. What could be the deal. Also when upgrading hijack, since jEmplode can't autodetect it for some reason, I get error 16 using Tony's Logo Editor, but cycling the power I can upload a new version of hijack fine. Here is a serial dump from boot:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
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 kern
el.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v253 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue Apr 2 09:58:14 EST 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
25600001,
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30103051)r NET4.0
Writing superblocks
Command line: mem=16m
IP
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
TCP: Hash tables con
Memory: 14984k/16M available (1012k code, 20k reserved, 364k data, 4k init)

empeg dsp audio initialised Read a button press
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)sp mixer initialised
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)press
empeg audio-in
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)ead a button press
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
empeg remote contr
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2.cpp 194 ( 19)
Starting kswapd v 1.5stress.cpp 189 (
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
empeg single channel IDE
Prob
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DIS
Signature is 20706d65 'emp 'lman (erik@vt.edu)
Found custom animation at offset 0x9bb88
b
Partition check:
empeg display initialised.da2 hda3 hda4
empeg dsp audio initialisedAMDISK: ext2 filesystem fou
empeg dsp mixer initialised

empeg dsp initialisedlocks [1 disk] into r
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
VFS: Mounted root (
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012p...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005f00).
change_root: old root has d_countempeg
empeg RDS driver initialised
I
empeg power-pic dri
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu) music partition read-only

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0b:e
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
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 To Comply...
Starting player

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.


After this point, I can do nothing. Hitting q and enter, nothing happens. I can go down to no hijack for file transfers, but no FTP with hijack, and I can't get Tony's Risky Tux off my Empeg! Please help me!!!!

BTW previous trying to correct the error: here

-Mike

This boot log is kinda corrupted. Have a read through it. There are blank lines where there shouldn't be and missing characters/sections.

Flow control etc? Have you changed to 115200 in config.ini. Perhaps something is wrong with your PC?

I have everything set right. Like I said, with any kernel version, when I do not have Hijack installed, I can quit the the shell in hyperterminal. It's after I install Hijack. I tried to do that even with 240 (the oldest version I have backuped), and I couldn't access the shell. I got a serial log with 2.00b11, and no hijack and got some interesting things. I've just attached it rather than posting it. I'm wondering if where the kernel/hijack resides in the flash is corrupted somehow. Is there a way I can totally clear the flash, then reinstall the kernel? I ran the builder in the past, downgraded clear down to 1.02, 1.03, 2.00b11, and I always have Tony's risky tux. Shouldn't that be gone from flashing the kernel? That and my hijack settings stay. So I think I need to totally clear them out of memory to get things to work. Well It's something I haven't tried yet. So how would I clear the flash, or is that a no-no?

-Mike

Oh yeah, I don't think its my computer due to the fact that I can access the player via ethernet from any computer on the network (except FTP, and HTTP.... emplode and jEmplode only) I haven't tried serial on anyother computer because it works without hijack installed. How do change to 115200 in config.ini for home use. I saw how to for car use, but this is just at home, and I thought that was default. It is set up correctly in Hyperterminal.

-Mike