No autoboot display

After switching on my GoFlex Home, the U-Boot msg comes up but there is no ' Stop autoboot in x secs' msg so I can't break in.

Is there a variable that sets this?

balanga Wrote:
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> After switching on my GoFlex Home, the U-Boot msg
> comes up but there is no ' Stop autoboot in x
> secs' msg so I can't break in.
>
> Is there a variable that sets this?

It's the env bootdelay. For example, set it to 10 seconds:

fw_setenv bootdelay 10

Even if it is set to 0, you could still interrupt it if you pound the keyboard before the countdown message comes up.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/2019 04:39AM by bodhi.

After some experimentation using two separate laptops, I see the one with a serial-USB connection displays:-

U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:21:31 -0700)
Seagate GoFlex Home

SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
DRAM:  128 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
NAND:  256 MiB
In:    nc
Out:   nc
Err:   nc

but if I start another laptop using 'nc -u -p 6666 192.168.1.21 6666' then it comes up with the

'Hit any key to stop autoboot:' prompt

so I guess that explains what I need to do to access uBoot.

balanga Wrote:
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> After some experimentation using two separate
> laptops, I see the one with a serial-USB
> connection displays:-
>
>

> U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:21:31
> -0700)
> Seagate GoFlex Home
> 
> SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
> DRAM:  128 MiB
> WARNING: Caches not enabled
> NAND:  256 MiB
> In:    nc
> Out:   nc
> Err:   nc
>

>
> but if I start another laptop using 'nc -u -p 6666
> 192.168.1.21 6666' then it comes up with the
>
> 'Hit any key to stop autoboot:' prompt
>
> so I guess that explains what I need to do to
> access uBoot.

Correct. Connect with netconsole.

These envs should be set to serial as default. When u-boot netconsole starts it will set them to nc. But they are nc only during the netconsole running. You must have done a saveenv during netconsole. Because they are nc, you can only access the box with netconsole.

To get back to serial console mode when u-boot starts, login to Debian and set them back to serial.

fw_setenv stderr serial
fw_setenv stdin serial
fw_setenv stdout serial
fw_setenv bootdelay 10

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