[E3-hacking] Amstrad E3 Will not Boot After Flashing a Backup of AMS E3 Original Firmware

[Nick Griffin]

Fingered it out, Had to stop pbltool from Prodding and had to tell the E3 I have already handshaked..😊and BING it worked, now have Linux back on the E3..feeewwww..lol

Here is the command just incase it happens to anyone else…

Use it in a Terminal under Linux, well pbltool only works under Linux..😊 ..

“./pbltool -d  -f /dev/ttyS0 -n oe-install.pbl” I had to put -d command switch in for pbltool to stop prodding.. 😊 Its was looking for a singnal from the E3 but was not getting one because the system was corrupt so couldn’t boot properly.

Worked it out in the end, and now I have worked something else out too,more in another email soon,(its good news,it about the Amstrad E3 Original Firmware and its file system)I need to go and have a tea break now.. 😊

Talk more later..

Spanner..

From: Nick Griffin<mailto:span1922 at live.com>
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎13‎:‎57
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

I have made a video so you can see it for yourself, its just not doing anything,in pbltool it says Prodding and not going no further ,in Putty you only see Amstrad Delta - PBL V4.9 Build:1311 Assert Debug ICE
> PBL 32MB NAND
> 0MB.-->MEMv01.00.002,CopyLim=00220000h,CodeEnd=01400000h-->PBL......1MB.......2MB*
and that's it stops and nothing happens. No more text comes up …dead... ☹ Its like it can’t talk thought serial no more.
If I can’t fix this I have to buy another one and the cheapest one on eBay is £30..wow.
Here is the video on you tube.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8-QUlJvpU<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Drl8-QUlJvpU&data=02%7c01%7c%7c438501f942924fac458b08d6c0d8c61a%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636908434593799638&sdata=fqKXmDWREsLLRPyntXteILXrl249IiKp%2BJ%2Bbpzb227s%3D&reserved=0>
Spanner..

From: Nick Griffin<mailto:span1922 at live.com>
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎12‎:‎00
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

>You'd need to look into what pbltool is seeking and not finding.
>But as long as you're still getting PBL printing out its banner, it's
>there and willing to alter the main flash memory for you.

I don’t know what I need to do next and how to find out what pbltool is looking for..?
I don’t know anything about pbltool,I only run it in the V2 release of E3 Linux to install it.
Can you please help.
Thanks.

Spanner..

From: Ralph Corderoy<mailto:ralph at inputplus.co.uk>
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎09‎:‎50
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

Hi Nick,

> On Putty it just comes up with this and that's it..
> “Amstrad Delta - PBL V4.9 Build:1311 Assert Debug ICE
> PBL 32MB NAND
> 0MB.-->MEMv01.00.002,CopyLim=00220000h,CodeEnd=01400000h-->PBL......1MB.......2MB*”
> Dam have to buy another one now.

I agree with David; PBL survives, by design, and you can try again.

You later write:
> Its lights flash when you plug it in and thats it pbltool says
> probbing and nothing else...?

You'd need to look into what pbltool is seeking and not finding.
But as long as you're still getting PBL printing out its banner, it's
there and willing to alter the main flash memory for you.

--
Cheers, Ralph.

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