STORA MS 2000 Issues after resetenv

Hello everybody.
I follow the guide here, but i've some problems with tfpt.
So i did resetenv. Now the machine doesnt' work. If i do printenv the result are a grey squares.

Are there any solution?
Thanks

colibri,

Some of the Stora models has this issue with envs. When you do resetenv and saveenv, you have written the internal envs to flash. But if you only did resetenv without saving it, then it should have not written anything to flash.

Have you recylced the power or reset u-boot? I'm not suggesting you doing these steps, just want to know exactly what the situation is.

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We install Debian and u-boot for this box manually here. Use the 2nd link in the Wiki: Boot Kirkwood rootfs with stock u-boot[

Wiki thread

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Kirkwood plugs

Basic steps to install Debian and new u-boot on Kirkwood boxes
Boot Kirkwood rootfs with stock u-boot

After you can run Debian on USB rootfs, consider installing new u-boot (Basic steps to install Debian and new u-boot on Kirkwood boxes).

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Hi Bodhi
i typed RESENTEV and later RESET.
After writing RESENTEV i didn't typed SAVEENV.

The stora give me back this screen:
1 screen
2 screen

Will I proceed with 2nd link in the Wiki: Boot Kirkwood rootfs with stock u-boot?


Thank you with all my heart for the answer, I was very worried that I had damaged the system

colibri,

This is a known problem with some of the Stora models (it seems there are variations of this Stora, and for some, u-boot is buggy).

> Will I proceed with 2nd link in the Wiki: Boot
> Kirkwood rootfs with stock u-boot?

Yes, don't do any saveenv, just enter the envs to boot into USB Debian rootfs.

To prepare the rootfs Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2, you will need a Linux system and can become root user. Using Linux VM is fine.

Once you booted into Debian, the envs can be fixed.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/2025 04:52AM by colibri.

Hi body
i follow your steps but i had problems.

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096 - Updated 01 Nov 2023:

In sudo mode (root user) i had format a new USB drive with a single Ext3 partition, and label it rootfs.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
e2label /dev/sdb1 rootfs

i copyed Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 from my download folder on /media/colibri/rootfs/

cp Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 /media/colibri/rootfs/

now i unziped the file Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

cd /media/colibri/rootfs/
tar xjf Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

i deleted the file Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 from usb drive

rm Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

Later i followed your steps. kirkwood-goflexnet was wright.

cd /media/sdb1/boot
cp -a zImage-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1  zImage.fdt
cat dts/kirkwood-goflexnet.dtb  >> zImage.fdt
mv uImage uImage.orig
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 -d zImage.fdt  uImage
sync

I put the pen drive usb on stora's usb port.

i typed:

setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial'
setenv load_uimage 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage'
setenv load_uinitrd 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x2100000 /boot/uInitrd'
setenv usb_boot 'mw 0x800000 0 1; run load_uimage; run load_uinitrd; bootm 0x800000 0x2100000'
setenv usb_bootcmd 'run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot'
setenv bootcmd 'usb reset; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; reset'

the answer was:

setenv load_uimage 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage'
## Error: environment overflow, "load_uimage" deleted

Same errors on the other commands.

What went wrong?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/2025 09:21AM by colibri.

colibri,

> In sudo mode (root user)

Make sure you become root first, like:

sudo -

> ## Error: environment overflow, "load_uimage" deleted
> What went wrong?

This stock u-boot has a bug that overflow the envs area.

So let try the kwboot approach.

Download the new u-boot for this box from the release thread

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hrhrwxn9v0892u/uboot.2017.07-tld-1.netgear_ms2110.bodhi.tar
md5
1b09317e896ad928104a1edce459a9f5
sha256
8f5e8b5b33e3979b05698a09a92f99cd41ed04121993058f9b2469122fd280a7

Use the image uboot.2017.07-tld-1.netgear_ms2110.mtd0.kwb in the tarball to run kwboot. See the following example:

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,51739,51919#msg-51919

And kwboot must be run from another Linux system. So basically the same Linux host that you run serial console. This Linux host should have the kwboot command.

Once kwboot has loaded the u-boot image to the Stora and run it, you can just let it boot automatically into the USB rootfs.

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