So the way I understand it, the NAND is my Flash memory on the GFH board. It contains some partitions, and each partition has some stuff written on each partition. The stuff are utilities know as MTD utilities and are a booting information, a kernel (not sure exacltly what that is unless it is some thing that communicates and runs the on board chips), a linux root file system information, and sby jfharper - uBoot
OK. Just for reference, here is the uboot tools available to me on the original unmodded GFH base...there is a nice little erase utility in the original that is not on the modded one. NAS>> help ? - alias for 'help' base - print or set address offset boot - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd' bootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd' bootby jfharper - uBoot
Thanks, I'll check that out. Edit 1: In trying to futher my understanding/education, I found these two webpages: GFH GFN where they illustrate the original Flash layout...the GFN page illustrates what you mentioned where they original MTDs had 3, and the new MTD has 4, excluding mtd0.by jfharper - uBoot
Thanks bodhi, Edit 1: OK...I'm figuring this out... Edit 2: I have another unmodified GFH base, and I soldered some pins on and setup the serial console...here is what I got on boot up. I'm going to attempt to get the original u-boot from this base, and also get the mtds off the nand and somehow transfer them to the base in question. -- NAS EXPLORER -- _ _by jfharper - uBoot
Hi bodhi, I got the usb thing from ebay and had to actually solder in some pins, my GFH did not have a header. I got the console readout below. I found a thread here that discussed recovering bad blocks, but cannot find it (edit: I think this is it http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,7852)...I'll see if I can review that thread to get myself a little more familiar with what to expect. Thaby jfharper - uBoot
Yeah, it works as a linux box right now...I'm tempted to keep messing with it, just to see if I can get it fixed, because it is kind of fun to mess with..besides, it wouldn't be a very big loss...these bases are pretty cheap. So the serial console would be to solder in a serial cable I get off ebay, then attach it to my computer and open a telnet or some other console to read what thby jfharper - uBoot
Is there anyway to reset or fix the bad blocks?by jfharper - uBoot
Yes, there were alot more numbers in the ...and so on... section...pages of numbers. Was there a log generated automatically? If so, I could try and find it, otherwise I didn't specifically make a log of the install...I do remember something about uBoot was installed successfully after this command. ./install_uboot_mtd0.shby jfharper - uBoot
Hi bodhi, I'm trying to output dmesg, but it is quite long...I'm trying to see if I can output to a file and post that, or was there something specific in the dmesg output you were looking for that I could reduce the output to? EDIT: OK, here is what I have so far... dmesg [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [by jfharper - uBoot
Hi bodhi, Thanks for your reply. I warm rebooted with arch usb plugged in and was able to login via putty. I also tried power off, then unplug usb stick and powering back on...I got a green blinking followed by red blinking. This would continue cycling...so I powered off. I tried the OEM firmware instructions to load firmware to USB stick and power on holding the reset button, but the abovby jfharper - uBoot
Using a GoFlex Home base, I ran this procedure: cd /tmp wget http://projects.doozan.com/uboot/install_uboot_mtd0.sh chmod +x install_uboot_mtd0.sh ./install_uboot_mtd0.sh I have a USB stick plugged in to the base with ArchLinux installed. I can boot and login via putty from a Windows machine. The following command gives this output: grep -a --null-data U-Boot /dev/mtd0ro U-Boot 2011.1by jfharper - uBoot
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If u-boot was installed succesfully, you only need > rootfs on a USB stick. The kernel is part of the > rootfs already. Kernel installation is for when > you want to upgrade a kernel on top of it. Oh...thanks...I was wondering about that! Just an update, so far so good, I got apache loaded and figured outby jfharper - Debian
bodhi, Thanks for your reply. I actually, just got something working. What I did was use the other goflex base (not mod/bricked one) with usb stick and loaded archlinux on the usb drive...I did not go thru the steps to load the archlinux uBoot because I didn't want to brick my non-mod base. Again, I assumed Jeff's uBoot was successful on the bricked base because I got a message sayiby jfharper - Debian
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Peter, > > I have not looked at the kernel source about the > "RTC not ticking" problem (its status is unchanged > in 3.15.3). I will start looking into this problem > in a couple days, since I've just got this new toy > today :). > > The booting problem, I think, mightby jfharper - Debian
Got a new GFHome base no HDD. Plugged 8GB Cruizer flash into...went thru archlinux steps to gain root access and partitioned the flash drive accordingly...returned to Jeff's uBoot script and successfully installed that...then went to install debian squeeze first (via Jeff's "Run Linux on your Dockstar, GoFlex...etc" page) before upgrading to wheezy, but got an error: ##by jfharper - Debian