Thanks both for helping out!
> Is this the message: Sorry, your device had to restart due to a system > error. Is it OK if we collect diagnostic information on this issue to > help us fix it? > > That message would follow a reboot forced by the system watchdog. Yes that's the message. > Why do you doubt it ? Has the radio worked since replacing the failed > power supply ? I got the radio in this state, with a faulty power supply. I used a power supply from one of my other functioning radios. I thought at first maybe there is not enough power coming through the system which causes it to crash, but this seems unlikely. > I believe that the boot software also looks for a press of the 'rewind' > button. If my understanding is right, that would cause the previous, > back up, copy of the kernel and root file system to be loaded at boot. > But I have never tried this, and I cannot affirm that my understanding > is correct. > > Motivation being that this might help if there is a software corruption > problem. But for all I know it might make matters worse. Something to > think about, anyway. Tried it anyway:rolleyes: no result pressing the rewind (or the forward) button when powering up. > There is a 10 pin socket header inside the battery compartment. Rumour > has it that some of the pins give access to the onboard console UART. > I've never tried it, so can't confirm. Assuming that you can get that to > work, you could then embark on a journey to deactivate the watchdog, and > then examine the system at your leisure. That would quite hard to do in > the 20 second intervals available, and carries plenty of opportunity to > brick the thing completely. > THis is LMS and squeezebox - someone has always been there before... > see > https://web.archive.org/web/20160304.../92-squeezebox Auch:eek: that is challenging. I think I have a serial to usb cable somewhere, but the 20 secs gives me the ..shi*ts. any other suggestions, could I swap certain parts with another SBR to get things working and then revert back? thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MPO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70283 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112339 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
