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I got my Bug yesterday. It seems to be having boot issues :( . It start booting (Dark screen) then after about 3-5 min it emits some beeps and then animation starts but freezes about half done.

I read through some of the posts mentioning this and one them said to telnet into Bug, when I try telnet or SSH it fails.

I can ping the IP of the bug though.

This is Seth, I’m a bug labs design and development engineer.

If you repeat the boot process, does exactly the same thing happen?

If you have IRC access, join #buglabs on irc.freenode.net

I am going to get on IRC, but was wondering if anything was found out about this problem. I seem to be having a somewhat similar issue – I did a new post about it

Press the joystick down (coming to "Access" on the BaseLCD)
Press the joystick right 4x (coming to "Settings")
Press the joystick down (coming to "About")
Press the joystick right 2x (coming to "Shutdown")
Press the joystick down once to engage the Shutdown process

The rootfs tarball, located at http://bugcommunity.com/downloads
The MMC adapter for your MMCmicro card, which should have shipped with your BUGbase
A MMC card reader
The ability to format the MMC card as ext2 or ext3
The ability to untar the archive onto your MMC card.

John and Seth, thanks for the help. I will be trying to reload the fs on the card tonight – I left the adapter at home for the MMC card.

Wanted to bring up something again that was mentioned. There are 2 ports, the ones on either side of the BugBASE where the joystick is which will run the LCD. I was working with the Bug fine last night, today, I was holding the Bug upside down, plugged in the LCD and turned it on, I didn’t realize what side it was until it was too late, the LCD was showing static. until chatting on IRC I didn’t realize the 5 second hold of the power button is not the best way to shutdown. It was after this that I had the problems.

So just a note, pay attention to where you plug in the LCD module.

Okay no luck with the built-in Multi-card reader showing up in VMWare, so I am going to try and find a USB Multi-card reader (if I am lucky there will be Linux drivers included) so I can setup the filesystem on the MMC.

As a back-up plan, any way we can order a pre-formatted MMC ready to roll, I may be interested in buying one to have an extra back-up Filesystem anyway.

Good News

I went out today and bought the ScanDisk ImageMate 12-in-1 Card Reader/Writer. Since it’s USB I can set it to be found in VMWare. Walked through the steps you have posted perfectly.

Slapped it in, the Bug is now back in Action.

Now for a whole other problem. There was the mention of the Menu system on the Bug – where you joystick down, to Access >, then joystick right My Problem is here nothing happens when I move the joystick right.

I can move up/down and I see basically

Access >

STATUSBAR [enabled]

down to the enable/disable.

Could I have possibly a defective Joystick button. I was wondering how the menu worked the first day, I didn’t see much going on. Anyway to test the Joystick, for now I will USB it and do the "shutdown" in shell

The joys of "bleeding edge" :)

John

The command you posted was helpful, but with slight modification

The kernel.log, is kern.log, at least on what I have on my bug the R1.1 FS

So I was messing around, I would run the tail command, mess with the joystick, then do it again.

So looks like my right may not be working. here is what I find

code 265 – Joystick Down
code 264 – Joystick Up
code 263 – Joystick Right

No code value is logged when I try to click Right

Also something I found when reloading the Filesystem on the MMC, you have to re-setup your connection at least in Vista.

I will be on IRC for a bit, I see your logged in

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