All went perfectly Bodhi. Apart from those usb bad device messages. Is that just because I have no USB inserted? I kept my old usb bootable stick as an emergency which is using the old kernel. U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:38:05 -0700) Netgear Stora MS2110 SoC: Kirkwood 88F6281_A0 DRAM: 128 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 256 MiB In: serial Out: serial Errby spaceballz - Debian
Awesome, Thanks Bodhi. Now I totally understand why it didn't work. I followed step 4a, so created the uImage without the dtb and wondered why it didn't work when it recognised the same board id in the new images. LOL I'll add it into the env from this version and install it again. Thanks again for all your work with this. Seeing speeds of around 20-24MB/s over samba tby spaceballz - Debian
Answered my own question about transferring it to a drive. Thats done. added a brand new 8TB and created a 250GB partition, copied the files over from a tar I created. Just making my swap file now. Boots much faster from sata. Created a 2nd ext4 partition for my storage space and shared via samba, all fine. :) Just wondering about updating the kernel, now, but its working nice so I may just leby spaceballz - Debian
So I managed to pickup an old Netgear Stora from ebay for £30, thought it was worth having a play with. I had the old uboot on the device but had a serial console. I stupidly used the "resetenv" command and ended up with loads of errors but following other posts I was able to chain load another uboot from an ext2 usb drive (3.4.16 I think it was), mine was the buggy 3.4.14 version.by spaceballz - Debian