Problems booting

[Yorick Moko]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes
<gunnar.grimnes at dfki.de> wrote:
> After several weeks of waiting I've finally got my OpenMoko - it came
> with 2007.02 which I've opkg update'd.
>
> However, now it seems to have some trouble booting :(
>
> Most times I turn on it will simply freeze on the first flash-screen,
> booting into the nand or nord menus works, but they will both freeze
> after "Starting kernel..."
> removing power-supply+battery to turn off and trying again will usually
> make it boot after about 5 attempts.
>
> This happens regardless of the battery level.
>
> I've had a cursory glance over the mailinglist archives and of course
> googled, but not found anything. Is this a known problem? Or do I have
> some weird hardware error?
>
>
> Cheers!,
>
> - Gunnar
>
>
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Have you tried reflashing the device? Since it's new you won't lose
any precious info. Reflash u-boot, kernel and rootfs. You can find a
good guide on the wiki:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner