Debian Installation on Thecus N2350 (Marvell Armada 385)

Manuel,

> How did you get that information?

I have an alias that include all the following commands that I can run to get a summary of system info at a glance.

dmesg | grep -i machine | cut -c40-120
Thecus N2350

uname -a
Linux version 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19 12:47:39 PDT 2019

cat /etc/debian_version
Debian 10.0

cat /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr) earlyprintk=serial

fw_printenv uboot_version  # I usually set u-uboot_version env so I can tell from Debian which version I've installed)
uboot_version=U-Boot 2013.01 (Nov 12 2018 - 20:56:19) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18-tld-4

> I think it might be possible that i had the
> problem with random MAC addresses also before the
> upgrade, but i did not keep the customized hard
> coded MAC address in the config file, but chose
> the new one from the package maintainer - not sure
> about that.

I always have persistent MAC address on this Thecus N2350 box since we added the alias eth0 to the DTS!

So it is still a mystery why we have the same box, same kernel but the MAC address behavior is different :)

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> Manuel,
>

> dmesg | grep -i machine | cut -c40-120
> Thecus N2350
> 
> uname -a
> Linux version 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM)
> (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro
> 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19
> 12:47:39 PDT 2019
> 
> cat /etc/debian_version
> Debian 10.0
> 
> cat /proc/cmdline
> console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs
> rootdelay=10
> mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr)
> earlyprintk=serial
> 
> fw_printenv uboot_version  # I usually set
> u-uboot_version env so I can tell from Debian
> which version I've installed)
> uboot_version=U-Boot 2013.01 (Nov 12 2018 -
> 20:56:19) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18-tld-4
>

Thecus N2350
Linux vega 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19 12:47:39 PDT 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
10.0
console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr) earlyprintk=serial

> So it is still a mystery why we have the same box,
> same kernel but the MAC address behavior is
> different :)
Yap, weird. I have also no idea at the moment.

Hi Manuel,

I've finally have time to write this :)

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,92234

Please take a look and try it if you would like to.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2019 06:41AM by bodhi.

Great! I briefly looked over it, i hope some people will use it.
I have no time to test it. Also my box is in "production" use now for quite some time. Running great!

A heads up. I will release u-boot 2023.01 for this box pretty soon.

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Hello all,
first sorry for using this thread for this but i messed up N2350 and i need rescue firmware to try restore it.
/os7-n2350n4350-v302021-rescue-usb-upgrade
If someone have zip or working link i would be grateful?
Thanks.

vaha,

> Hello all,
> first sorry for using this thread for this but i
> messed up N2350 and i need rescue firmware to try
> restore it.
> /os7-n2350n4350-v302021-rescue-usb-upgrade
> If someone have zip or working link i would be
> grateful?
> Thanks.

I've never used this rescue USB so don't have it. Let's see if any body has come across this before.

If nobody responds here after a couple days, you can try sending email to Thecus support. In the past, they were quite helpful and responded to my request for GPL source very quickly. And probably you will need to give them your box serial number.

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Thank you for response,

i did asked support and i got this response from them:

Quote
Dear Sir,

Thank you for your reply.

Thecus NAS with 2 years warranty, and also at least have 5 years design hardware life, but this N2350V1.0184930002 been over 5+ years, it is out of service already.

If able to access for data storage here strongly recommend backup data for new storage ASAP and retire this system,

If unable to access N2350 anymore, please try to boot N2350 up without HDD and check from Thecus Setup Wizard again, once it is without help, please the place where you purchase from for RMA service.

Here is file in wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20200815144739/https://www.thecus.com/Downloads/DOM/

N2350_3.02.02_rescue_fw.zip

but i can't download it.

You are my last hope....

vaha,

Thecus has a download center.

https://www.thecus.com/Download-Center

The N2350 is still on the list. But I can't find rescue fw on that page.

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If you cannot find this rescue_fw.img, you can install Debian on USB drive, and then copy your data from the HDDs to make backup of them.

The first thing you need to do is connect serial console, boot it up and we can see where the problem is. If you're lucky, the problem is easy to fix, that I can help, then you don't need rescue fw, or run Debian.

However, since this box is already EOL, you need to consider running Debian on it and forget about stock FW.

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