Can't Reflash :(

[Pleng]

After screwing up my etc/fstab I have come to need a reflash. I've dug out an old 512Mb Micro-MMC card and stuck it in a MicroMMC/SD adapter, downloaded the archive linked to in this thread.

I've rebooted and selected the boot from sd: 1 option. It goes through bootup but quickly comes up with a message saying:

Starting updater. Press Alt+right for verbose output..

Can't access SD card, please reinsert and press enter

If I press enter I get the message that the update has failed and the machine is shutting down. If I go into verbose mode I get messages including 'mmc0: error -110 whilst initializing MMC card'. If I press enter here, I get a bash prompt but unfortunately my NAND doesn't appear to be mounted, and there's no text editor to fix my fstab, anyway

I tried copying the exact same files to a newly formatted 8GB SDHC card but this doesn't seem to even recognize the card, and I'm not even given the option to boot from it

Anybody able to help here? PLEEASE

 

[mali]

Did you try the SD formatter utility linked to in the Tweaks Thread?

 

[Pleng]

Thanks. Well that's enabled me to complete the flash, but I still can't actually BOOT Pandora :S

I get the 'Powered by Angstrom' logo and the status bar creeps up all the way till nearly complete (like in the middle of the N of "Release 1 - Zaxxon"), but it hangs at that point and never launches into the first boot wizard

 

[EvilDragon]

Thanks. Well that's enabled me to complete the flash, but I still can't actually BOOT Pandora :S

I get the 'Powered by Angstrom' logo and the status bar creeps up all the way till nearly complete (like in the middle of the N of "Release 1 - Zaxxon"), but it hangs at that point and never launches into the first boot wizard

Did you follow the flashing guide? The first boot after flashing takes up to 10 minutes since it configures the whole system

 

[Pleng]

Well, no, I got impatient, assumed it had crashed, and reset during the first boot... a mistake that cost me more time that it was worth!!!