Hi,
ive been watching this forum for a while ever since i got a dreambox (about 1 week ago). Back then i thought everything was oversimplified so i wasnt paying much attention, however..
Up until my dreambox worked i had Gemini 2.20 installed on it (installed it through flashwizard pro 5.0). Everything was working fine until today (because i was an idiot) i thought of installing the latest version of Hydra (just to be exact i used hydra500_phoenix_108_final.img). I tried installing it with flashwizard again and everything seemed fine on the PC part. Then i thought of rebooting the dreambox for the new firmware to take effect, so i rebooted through the OSD menu. After the reboot, the screen was black(naturally) and as the dreambox powered up again it became a more bright version of black (i hope you know what i mean by this). After a few seconds later, the screen was flashing between the darker version of black and the lighter one. Then was when my problems begun.
I thought i had flashed it badly, so i thought of using dreamup. I loaded dreamup and did a flash with the erase image (erase.img). Then i disconnected the dreambox from the mains and waited for 3 minutes ( i dont know why but everyone recommends it). After this, i connected it through dreamup again adn flashed the Hydra image again, thinking that would solve the problem. This time when i connected it to the TV only the brighter version of black would appear but nothing else.
Then i read somewhere that i should flash it with the erase.img and then use the manufacturers firmware and then it should work as new. So i did that (with 3 minutes off-mains intervals and everything related). After a couple unsuccessful tries, i read somewhere how i could get a dump of the bootup process of the dreambox, so i did that, and saw that the dreambox was constantly rebooting.
the dump is:
Code:
Linux/PPC load: console=null root=/dev/mtdblock5 rootfstype=squashfs ro console=
ttyS0,115200
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Linux version 2.6.9 (ghost@Client) (gcc version 3.4.3) #1 Wed Feb 2 22:30:27 CET
2005
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=null root=/dev/mtdblock5 rootfstype=squashfs ro con
sole=ttyS0,115200
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 30080k available (1676k kernel code, 572k data, 80k init, 0k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 7 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 20) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 21) is a 16550A
ttyS2 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 22) is a 16550A
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0xc306c600:<4>eth0: interrupt from stopped card
00 09 34 20 01 c0
eth0: NE2000 found at 0xc306c600, using IRQ 25.
Using deadline io scheduler
dreambox: flash mapping: 800000 at 7f800000
DreamBOX rev3+: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x0031
cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
Using buffer write method
disable flash VPP
Creating 7 MTD partitions on "DreamBOX rev3+":
0x00000000-0x00600000 : "DreamBOX cramfs+squashfs"
0x00600000-0x007c0000 : "DreamBOX jffs2"
0x007c0000-0x00800000 : "DreamBOX OpenBIOS"
0x00000000-0x007c0000 : "DreamBOX (w/o bootloader)"
0x00000000-0x00800000 : "DreamBOX (w/ bootloader)"
0x00120000-0x00600000 : "DreamBOX SquashedFS"
0x00000000-0x00120000 : "DreamBOX Cramfs"
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i2c /dev entries driver
IBM IIC driver v2.1
ibm-iic0: using standard (100 kHz) mode
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 80k init
init started: BusyBox v1.00 (2005.02.02-21:30+0000) multi-call binary
head: module license 'proprietary' taints kernel.
cannot determine frontend type
fb_find_mode returned 0
allocated major 251 for denc.
core: Loaded IBM STB02xx core driver
audio init
AUDIO_CLEAR_BUFFER
res: 0
demux: init
xp0_clk_stop
stb04_pig: $Id: stb04_pig.c,v 1.6 2005/01/13 19:32:02 ghost Exp $
Cowardly refusing to erase blocks on filesystem with no valid JFFS2 nodes
empty_blocks 0, bad_blocks 0, c->nr_blocks 14
mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock/1 on /var failed: Input/output error
cp: cannot create directory `/var/etc': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create directory `/var/log': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create directory `/var/mnt': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create directory `/var/run': Read-only fil
cp: cannot create symlink `/var/tmp': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create directory `/var/tuxbox': Read-only file system
touch: /var/.init: Read-only file system
umount: /var: Invalid argument
Cowardly refusing to erase blocks on filesystem with no valid JFFS2 nodes
empty_blocks 0, bad_blocks 0, c->nr_blocks 14
mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock/1 on /var failed: Input/output error
cp: unable to open `/var/etc/hostname': No such file or directory
hostname: /var/etc/hostname: No such file or directory
enigma, Copyright (C) dbox-Project
enigma comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome
to redistribute it under certain conditions.
It is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
Version 2
[eHotplug] created successfully
+ (0) Configuration
error while opening configdir or creating - /var/tuxbox/config/enigma
no active skin
enigma returned with 0
Shutdown
system shutdown...
The system is going down NOW !!
Sending SIGTERM to all processes.
Sending SIGKILL to all processes.
The system is halted. Press Reset or turn off power
System halted.
Now... does anyone have any instructions (step by step PLEASE) so i can fix it...
ANY help is appreciated..
thank you in advance
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Dreambox 500s (Major) problem
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