Have you followed these instructions? http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Unbrick
-Chris On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:07, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I ordered a Ben Nanonote from Tuxbrain around the middle of November. After > a long delay caused by the Swedish postal service it arrived and last friday > I finally got my chance to start playing around with it. I did what every > sane (heh) hacker would do the first couple of days by spending hours on > customizing, coding and updating the gadget. > > Pretty soon I felt that despite OpenWRT being good and useful I ought to try > an alternative: Debian. I followed the steps in the pyneo.org guide on the > subject. The first attempt failed. After a reboot I could see the boot > manager printing the default text about loading the kernel and then the > screen turned black. "Oh well, kernel panic", I thought to myself, and > booted right back into usb boot for the second attempt. > > The second attempt failed even harder. After rebooting (not sure if it even > classifies as a boot) the device the screen stayed monochrome black. No > backlight, as far as I can tell. I popped the back lid open, removed the > battery and sent it into usb boot. `watch lsusb`, nothing. Tried again, and > again, and again but the tiny box is still stuck in its dark abyss. > > Somehow, my attempt at installing Debian seems to have killed whatever part > handles the usb boot. I have no good guess of how this would be possible, > though. Is there any way for me to un-fuck-up my Nanonote? It would really > be saddening if the journey would end like this. Any help regarding this is > greatly appreciated. > > > ----------------- > Niklas Femerstrand > <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > -- -Chris Harrington Phone: 612.598.3650 _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
