Help with NSA320S 2015.10 U-Boot installation

Hey Bodhi,

First off thanks for putting all of this together! It gives folks like me who are very new to the programming world a chance. I am having issues installing the uBoot on my NSA320s. The kernel and boot is the stock systems. I have enabled ffp and utilize putty to connect via SSH, logged in as root.

I have two possible issues so far. As this is stock, I followed your precursor to step 1 under flashing instructions and installed the mtd-utils and uboot-tools with no errors reported.

cd /tmp
wget http://download.doozan.com/uboot/nanddump
wget http://download.doozan.com/uboot/nandwrite
wget http://download.doozan.com/uboot/flash_erase
wget http://download.doozan.com/uboot/fw_printenv
wget http://download.doozan.com/uboot/fw_env.config
wget http://download.doozan.com/uboot/files/environment/uboot.environment

Without changing directories I ran cat /etc/fw_env.config with the following result.

Configuration file for fw_(printenv/saveenv) utility.
# Up to two entries are valid, in this case the redundand
# environment sector is assumed present.
# Notice, that the "Number of sectors" is ignored on NOR.

# MTD device name       Device offset   Env. size       Flash sector size       Number of sectors
# NAND example
/dev/mtd1               0x0000          0x20000         0x20000                 4

I think this may be my first error. Do I need to edit the file to match your text? If so, how?

I figured there may have been an update of the file so I moved forward to the next step. When attempting to run

fw_printenv ethaddr

I got

-sh: fw_printenv: command not found

I am assuming I need to change the first file?

Finally I like to know what new commands do so I looked at the help files for nanddump and I don't see any --noecc listed. Is that something else that I need to install?

Thanks again,

Jeremy



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2016 04:56PM by bodhi.

Jeremy,

Comment out what you have currently, and then add this line:

/dev/mtd0 0xc0000 0x20000 0x20000

> fw_printenv ethaddr

Since the binaries were copied in, not installed, the command hase to have "./" in front. This is the Linux shell method to execute any binary that was downloaded but not installed.

./fw_printenv ethaddr

> Finally I like to know what new commands do so I
> looked at the help files for nanddump and I don't
> see any --noecc listed. Is that something else
> that I need to install?

Download this and use the binaries in this tarball instead of the old ones:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,27280

And you do need serial console to recover form any problem during flashing. Do you have one installed or plane to install it if needed?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2016 05:43PM by bodhi.

bodhi Wrote:
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> Jeremy,
>
> Comment out what you have currently, and then add
> this line:
>

> /dev/mtd0 0xc0000 0x20000 0x20000
>

>
> > fw_printenv ethaddr
>
> Since the binaries were copied in, not installed,
> the command hase to have "./" in front. This is
> the Linux shell method to execute any binary that
> was downloaded but not installed.
>
>

> ./fw_printenv ethaddr
>

>
> > Finally I like to know what new commands do so
> I
> > looked at the help files for nanddump and I
> don't
> > see any --noecc listed. Is that something else
> > that I need to install?
>
> Download this and use the binaries in this tarball
> instead of the old ones:
> http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,27280
>
> And you do need serial console to recover form any
> problem during flashing. Do you have one installed
> or plane to install it if needed?

Hey Bodhi

Took a while for me to get back to this. Thesis submitted and accepted so back to personal projects. I will attempt this in the next few days. I do not have a serial console installed but I will look into how to install one.

Jeremy

Jeremy,

> Took a while for me to get back to this. Thesis
> submitted and accepted so back to personal
> projects.

Congrats :)

> I will attempt this in the next few
> days. I do not have a serial console installed but
> I will look into how to install one.

I'm looking forward to. I think we need one more user with the NSA320S who can do kwboot. I want to release the new u-boot for this, but need more tests to verify if the 2nd HDD is working consistently.

Also the new kernel 4.6 need to be verified to work with the NSA320S.

-bodhi
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/27/2016 03:14AM by bodhi.