(Bricked?) Joggler from Hell!

[simonaldrich]

Hi All

Apologies for the slightly inflammatory topic title but I'm really at the end of my tether with this little beastie. I'd appreciate any help or advice anyone might be able to give me on this (or if anyone's had a similar problem).

I recently bought a Joggler from ebay. As far as I can tell the hardware is normal and it did come with SqueezePlay installed by the seller (who I think might actually be a member of this forum). However, I wanted to install roobarb!'s SqueezePlayOS to the internal memory so that it would boot straight into the SqueezePlay application as this would be the solution with the highest Wife Acceptance Factor

Unfortunately I just couldn't get any images to boot from USB stick (as described in this post), it does exactly the same thing for all images I've tried (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, JoliOS, SqueezePlayOS, even the reflash tool) :- gets to the bootloader and then just hangs with no output. I tried the changes which were helpfully suggested by roobarb! sadly to no avail.

The only USB image which does seem to boot reliably is the latest official OpenPeak firmware image linked to from this post which I installed in an attempt to see if that would improve matters.

Unfortunately on my second installation of the OpenPeak image it no longer seems to boot from the internal memory either and just sits at the "OpenPeak" logo bootscreen forever (although it will still boot from the OpenPeak firmware USB stick and optimistically tells me that it is "Ready!").

Have I inadvertently bricked my new toy? Has anyone else seen behaviour like this before (failing to boot the kernel after getting through the bootloader)? Help!?!?

Any and all suggestions, comments or commiserations gladly received.

Cheers

Simon

[Mevi]

I think you've tried nearly all the ways we would suggest already, so that makes things kinda easier. You could try the 'hit escape at boot' method to see if it helps: http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=681

See Dave's post #2

I'm not sure that what you have done has caused this..... the EFI boot or eMMC internal storage can be a little delicate. Beyond this last attempt it gets a bit more techy and requires you to have access to a 2nd Joggler of the same type (at boot, both have O2 logo or both have Openpeak logo) and be prepared to take a screwdriver to them both. eek! Take a look at the 'recovering a bricked Joggler' in the wiki: http://www.jogglerwiki.com/wiki/Recover ... ricked_EFI

Good luck

[hawsey]

Simon,
I have had similar behaviour on both of my jogglers and with a combination of Roobarbs reflash tool and the Openpeak reflash tool , different usb sticks and the plug in a keyboard and blindly type over the O2 logo , I have allways managed to get them working again without having to think about the efi chip shuffle which I would probably enjoy but would really rather not try .
Keep trying
Good luck

[BuZz]

if grub (bootloader) is crashing it could be your joggler is different in some way, or some hardware issue. I have heard of it before. I suspect EFI corruption in some manner, as when I have grub crashing on mine, flashing my efi fixed it. it also did odd other things, like spurious temp readings.

I can give you an older grub.efi which might work better. you would just need to place the file on the first fat32 partition. let me know and ill give you a copy.

[simonaldrich]

Hi All

Thanks for all your help and suggestions. Bizarrely enough I've managed to resurrect it from the dead! I think something must be not quite right with the EFI but when I reflashed it with the OpenPeak firmware for a third time it has come back to life (to the point of getting to the OS anyway). Still not able to boot from USB at all but I think I'll just leave it with the stock OS and install SqueezePlay onto that.

Many thanks for all your help though, I've actually ordered another Joggler this morning so here's hoping the second one is a bit better behaved!

Cheers

Simon