Sansa e250 freezes on startup

[m3metix]

I've noticed that all the builds (official or unofficial) I've tried since June 27/07 keep freezing at the Rockbox splash screen on startup. I've tried deleting config.cfg and various other files, including deleting the whole rockbox directory and doing a clean install. I did notice this with a couple of unofficial builds before June 27th, but the current official build (and my own build) still worked. Now no new builds work. Any thoughts?

[Llorean]

What bootloader version are you running?

[Vortex]

By the way, how do you find out the version of your bootloader? It is being displayed when I boot the Original Firmware but it disappears quickly...

[Llorean]

Just reboot a few times and read a little bit at a time.

[m3metix]

A couple people on the anythingbutipod forum
(http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16782) mentioned that it might be related to the micro SD patch (which is now included in SVN), where the Sansa will hang on bootup unless a micro SD card has been inserted (I don't have one to insert). I think this is likely true since the unofficial builds I tried that didn't work all had the micro SD patch, and the working builds didn't. I haven't done any experiments to confirm this, but the initial evidence supports the hypothesis.

[mschneider]

I doubt it's the micro sd. that stuff gets pretty extensive testing from what i understand before it's commited. the patch might have had those problems but when it was commited there were probably some modifications. I would reccomend compiling a new bootloader or downloading a faily new one in this thread-
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=10902.0.