[E3-hacking] pbltool problem

[Edward Robbins]

Hmm... worked that once but no dice a second time... is this a common issue?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Edward Robbins
<edd.robbins at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I just tried it with debugging and it has booted!
>
> Cheers,
> Ed
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Edward Robbins
> <edd.robbins at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I've got some free time today and have been playing with the emailer
>> again. I've managed to build a 3.6 kernel a while ago but when I tried
>> to upload the V2 stuff I had problems.
>>
>> Today I made up a new cable thinking that might be the issue, but it
>> hasn't helped. I can get a boot log just fine, but when I run pbltool
>> with "sudo ./pbltool -f /dev/ttyUSB0 oe-install.pbl" I get:
>>
>> Prodding...
>> Handshaking...
>> Done handshaking
>> Compressed return block?
>> Flushing: 0x00
>> Flushing: 0x0E
>> Flushing: 0x00
>> Flushing: 0x82
>> Flushing: 0x00
>> Flushing: 0x52
>> Flushing: 0x00
>> Flushing: 0x04
>> Flushing: 0x09
>> Flushing: 0x1F
>> Flushing: 0x05
>> Flushing: 0x10
>> Flushing: 0x40
>> Flushing: 0xFE
>> Flushing: 0x7B
>> Flushing: 0x0E
>> Flushing: 0xB0
>> Flushing: 0x9A
>> Compressed return block?
>>
>> Which then repeats forever. I've tried editing oe-install.pbl to
>> change the baud rate (38400, 19200, 9600) but it makes no difference.
>> I also looked for pblq but the link on
>> http://cowlark.com/amstrad/index.html is broken.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!