Bricked my kurobox

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I tried pulling the hard drive and wiping the partition table, on the
assumption that the machine would see an unformatted drive and
revert to its flash ROM, which is soldered onto the motherboard.
That didn't work; apparently the machine still wants to boot off
the hard drive.

I wiped the partition table by sticking the drive into a usb
enclosure, checking /var/log/messages to find that it showed up
as /dev/sdk,  and then

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdk bs=1024 count=1

I then reassembled the kurobox, but it sill wouldn't boot into
its flash ROM.


On 4/30/07, Tom Metro <blu at vl.com> wrote:
> John Abreau wrote:
> > ...I ended up "bricking" it...
> > ...hangs when booting from the hard drive, and I've
> > been unable to get it to boor from its flash ROM again.
> > Apparently I need to build a JTAG cable...
>
> You can physically open it up, right? Can you remove the hard drive and
> temporarily install it on another system, perhaps using an external USB
> enclosure? Or is the problem that you're not confident you'll be able to
> get it to boot, regardless of what gets put onto the hard drive?
>
> Is the flash drive integrated into the motherboard or as a removable
> memory card, like a CF card?
>
>   -Tom
>
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