@LittleBlueThing, yeah, I've read the hard drive upgrade guide, it's just applying the .upgrade files that I have issue with.

@tfafris, I think I'll try to mess with my virtualbox setup a little more to get it to work.

I have a question, if I plug in my empeg to the serial port and do, 'cat /dev/ttyS0', then power up the empeg, I should see some output right? I'm trying to confirm if my serial cable is still good. There's only one serial port on my machine and I confirmed that it's been setup in the dmesg output plus 'setserial -g /dev/ttyS0'

Right now I'm not seeing anything, I expected to see some garbage or something (y'know, like when you do cat /dev/mouse and move the mouse around it prints all this crap to the screen).