Hi Bodhi, I've added the file with the config lines you suggested but the machine still hung while trying to do an apt-get install command. The Cruzer Fit I'm using is USB 2.1 but I've ordered a USB 3.0 hub just in case that helps... if all else fails it will at least allow me to have a chunkier thumb drive plugged in without it being at risk of damage. I sent you a PM aboutby bennytheben - Debian
Hi Bodhi, thanks for your replies. Greatly appreciated as always. I've had it running on the new thumb drive for a few days again and it crashed again in the last 24 hours. I can't remember exactly when I did the switch over to the new one this time, but the logs will show this (in the boot messages it mentions 'Cruzer Blade' for the old thumb drive and 'Cruzer Fitby bennytheben - Debian
Hello again, it's been a while... I've had my stora running with rootfs on a Sandisk Cruzer Blade for quite a while without any issues. I moved it to a new location recently so I decided to clone the rootfs onto a Sandisk Cruzer Fit so that the thumb drive is much smaller and less vulnerable to getting physically damaged. I bought a USB 2 drive especially because of the issues I hadby bennytheben - Debian
I've cloned the rootfs onto a USB 2.0 thumb drive with ext4 (with journaling enabled) and that seems to have resolved the issue, thank you!by bennytheben - Debian
Thanks for your quick responses. It's an ext3 partition and it's a USB 3.0 thumb drive. I've disabled journaling and it's now showing mounted as ext2. I just ran 'aptitude update' and the system started gradually grinding to a halt. First the 'aptitude update' process shows as status 'D' in top, and then various other processes that are tryby bennytheben - Debian
The internal memory (NAND?) in my stora is corrupt so I've been using a Sandisk thumb drive as permanent rootfs that I bought new for the purpose. Is it possible I got a dud or fake branded one? When I was setting up the system last year I found that blacklisting certain ehci modules made the system more stable - I thought it might be because there wasn't enough power getting to theby bennytheben - Debian
I've been having a very similar issue for about a year on my Stora MS2000 running Debian from a USB flash drive. Normally the system is pretty stable when idling for weeks and just reading and writing stuff on the hard drives, but occasionally when I run apt commands the system hangs mid-operation, which sometimes makes the system unbootable until I plug the USB drive into my computer and reby bennytheben - Debian
How many of these recommended tweaks are already enabled in your debian rootfs?by bennytheben - Debian
I wondered if it would cause problems having the dtb embedded in the kernel the "old fashioned" way. It's running happily now; thank you for your help! this kind of thing takes days of trial and error without the help of knowledgeable people like you (I would know... I was trying to get this working for days already until I found this forum). Have you had any contact with the peoplby bennytheben - uBoot
Hi Bodhi, here it is... hope you can help :-) U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:38:05 -0700) Netgear Stora MS2110 SoC: Kirkwood 88F6281_A1 DRAM: 128 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 256 MiB In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: egiga0 PHY reset timed out 88E1116 Initialized on egiga0 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3 0 Netgear Stora> printenvby bennytheben - uBoot
Thank you for your quick response! I forgot to mention I had the same issue where Debian couldn't find the USB drive labelled 'rootfs' before updating, but I was hoping that updating uboot would resolve it. I've checked again and as far as I can tell all of those requirements are met. USB stick mounted on my Ubuntu machine - ben@xameroth:~$ cat /media/ben/rootfs/eby bennytheben - uBoot