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LED Description
Power LED (green)
| on
| Normal operation.
|
| blink
| Bootup, prior to Flash ROM update, and ppc_uartd starting.
|
| blink slowly
| Shutdown timer has been activated. Box will shutdown soon.
|
If ppc_uartd does not start for some reason (or is started late due to hardware/software issues), the Power LED will continue blinking. After five minutes the DIAG LED will continuously blink 6 times (hard drive failure) and then shut the box down.
LINK/ACT LED
| orange
| 10BASE-T
|
| green
| 100BASE-TX
|
| blue
| 1000BASE-T (Kurobox HG only)
|
DISK FULL LED (red)
| on
| Hard drive full
|
| blink
| Writing to Flash ROM
|
DIAG LED (red)
| 3 times blink
| Partition warning: /dev/hda3 is not mounted on /mnt. You can ignore it.
|
| 4 times blink
| Problem with the cooling fan - probably rotor jammed.
|
| 5 times blink
| Problem with Flash ROM*
|
| 6 times blink
| Hard drive not found, or ppc_uartd not running.
|
| 7 times blink
| Problem with the RAM, Ethernet Controller, or IDE Host Controller.
|
| multiple blinks
| Writing to Flash ROM.
|
* It may be possible to recover from a Flash ROM error by pulling out the power cord and trying to boot again the next day.
Source: [1] with translation help from nobuakiy.
Notes: Users have reported problems when the drive already has a Linux partition on it-- the DIAG LED blinks 6 times. The solution appears to be to simply to reformat the drive.
