Howto reset envs to uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment while in netconsole

In this instruction, the Pogo E02 is used as example. The current installed u-boot is uboot.2016.05-tld-1 or later.

It will work if you have uboot.2016.05-tld-1 or later installed on your box. Earlier u-boot will work with some more adjustment.

Preparation:

Download the uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment.bodhi.tar tarball from the u-boot release thread:
https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381

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a. Download the default u-boot envs at Dropbox:

uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment.bodhi.tar
md5:
3823eef10011b864859d31a76470e0e3
sha256:
c8db95a4225e8d78bdaaaa372bd5a87e4b98f3448dd9c62fc96c72b2df1a997c

Instruction:

1. Extract the tarball uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment.bodhi.tar and copy the envs file in text format to the Debian-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 rootfs on USB.

(Assuming the USB rootfs is mounted on another Linux box as /media/sdb1)

cp -a uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment /media/sdb1/boot/uEnv.txt

2. Modify the envs in uEnv.txt to make it usable in netconsole (that you already has set up and working).

Remove the following lines in uEnv.txt

ethaddr=52:3b:20:9c:11:51
ipaddr=192.168.0.231
serverip=192.168.0.220
stderr=serial
stdin=serial
stdout=serial

3. sync and umount the USB rootfs

cd
sync

4. Plug the USB rootfs into the Pogo E02 and power up, interrupt netconsole. At the prompt:

usb start
ext2load usb 0:1 0x810000 /boot/uEnv.txt
env import -t 0x810000 $filesize
printenv

5. At this point your current u-boot envs are set to a correct set of u-boot envs to boot the USB rootfs (If you want confirmation, post the log of netconsole up until this point here).

Go ahead and boot

boot

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Hi bodhi,

apparently, I need to do this each time I reboot. How can I make these changes permanent?

- Andreas

Andreas,

After verified that it works, repeat the procedure. But also save envs at step 5 before boot:

saveenv
boot

Now it will be Ok to boot normally.

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Hi bodhi,

thank you very much for you fast help. Much appreciated!

Best,
Andreas