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Re: Boot Debian from SATA (GoFlex Net) - 12 years ago
Yes, you'll have to read the forum threads that document how to do it. Google doozan SATA boot goflex net, for starters. Did you actually clone the USB rootfs and other partitions to the SATA drive already? Did you enable and set up netconsole already?by davygravy - Debian
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 12 years ago
I think this is now done. At this point, anyone with the Pogo E01, PogE02, Dockstar and GoFlex Net should be able to use a stock Debian 3.2 (or higher) kernel. As far as I can tell and as far as I've heard, the replacements for Pogo E01/E02 and Dockstar are fine and should be truely transparent drop-in replacements. Literally, no adjustments to anything in the env vars need to beby davygravy - uBoot
Re: 10/23 - New uBoot - GoFlex Net support + new 'arcNumber' variable - 12 years ago
@Jeff : For the GoFlex Net in particular (not Pogo's or Dockstar) is there a particular reason that you chose arcNumber=2097 (SheevaPlug) in the default env vars, rather than the machid number for the SheevaPlug eSATA? Sheevaplug machid machid 0x831 or decimal 2097 Sheevaplug eSATA machid 0xA76 or decimal 2678 After a second look, some experimentation and thought, for the GoFlex Net/Hby davygravy - uBoot
Re: How to mount SATA ports on GoFlex Net STAK100?? - 13 years ago
@ varkey, if you are around... had anyone posted/commented on booting the stock Debian kernel w/ machid set to 0xa76 since the eSATA Guruplug is kind of close? Granted the LED's don't do do much, but USB and SATA booting both work (at least w/ the u-boot I'm testing).by davygravy - Debian
Re: Alternately boots lenny, then stock OS - 13 years ago
Could this be a problem with env vars? Maybe you could printenv and post your values.by davygravy - uBoot
Re: Alternately boots lenny, then stock OS - 13 years ago
Have you considered the "Newer uBoot" that also addresses the 3.2 (& higher) kernels? They are based on 2011.12. See f uBoot section... http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,6965by davygravy - uBoot
Re: HOWTO: Build a custom 2.6.38.8 kernel for Goflex Net - 13 years ago
I think I'm just about done w/ it - a drop-in replacement for the u-boot that Jeff & Carmichael built... in terms of booting functions, it works identically to Jeff's original, AFAICT. I need to patch in the LED's still. Not sure if I want to use Jeff's&Carmichaels' code for that, or try to tie it in very closely with the already-existing KW_GPIO & mvgpioby davygravy - Debian
Re: Alternately boots lenny, then stock OS - 13 years ago
I'm curious if this is a timing problem. Have you tried it w a different flash drive?by davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
Thank you, that looks interesting. I don't think I can put that as is in what I submit to mainline but I can try it out for the drop-in. ============================= @ dpffann: thank you for posting that patch. I tried it and saw zero change in behavior. Not sure if I understand why, but there has been a lot of discussion since 2010 about changing the "IDE" stuff to sby davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
OK, good enough is good enough, for now. I tried everything I could to get Device 1(left side) port to be recognized, but to no avail. So, we seem to stay with booting only from the Device 0 (right side) port. Linux does still recognize both ports, once the GoFlexNet is booted. I've got the config minimized and cleaned up. No LED's yet - that's next, but I'll keep thby davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
OK, it now boots from the USB, with SATA drives attached. I had to read the comments above my post in this thread: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,5775,7406#msg-7406 ... I had a feeling I was close to it, but as I just opened the box for my GoFlex Net 2 days ago or so, I had never read these threads... So the uInitrd boots and then goes looking for the rootfs on (guess what! ... yup) tby davygravy - uBoot
Re: HOWTO: Build a custom 2.6.38.8 kernel for Goflex Net - 13 years ago
kraqh3d Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The only difference between Jeff's Uboot and the > UBIT installed Uboot, as far as I understand, is > that the UBIT installed one allows booting from > SATA. Jeff's UBoot does not because I don't think > it can sense the SATA ports. The booting issues > arise because Linux udev willby davygravy - Debian
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
@telzey : please, if you happen to be in the experimenting mood, and you try one of the newer CodeSourcery chains... please let us know if use of this flag yields a normally operating u-boot binary. ;) ================================== later that same evening... Marvell>> tftpboot 0x800000 uboot.mtd0.kwb-stable2011.12-goflexnetv1 tftpboot 0x800000 uboot.mtd0.kwb-stable2011.12-by davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
It seems hit or miss. :^/ Inconsistent at best... I'm not sure the latest ones I've rolled will do that completely consistenly, but I can tell you that my replacements do seem to "chain" with the original u-boot, so that the native PogoPlug u-boot will load, execute and then in turn load and run the Pogoplug software. Somewhere back in the thread I commented about whatby davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
telzey Wrote: " doozanized" Well, a new view is thus coined... "to doozanize" ... sorry about that Jeff... ;) I guess we've been taking poetic (or prosaic) license w/ your surname. @ Jeff Doozan: please take it as a compliment : doozanize= to make full of good new features, to improve upon a basic framework, enhancing something's usability... telzey, onceby davygravy - uBoot
Re: debian squeeze on sheeva plug rather than a pogoplug? - 13 years ago
This is a different setup, but I've used it... on dockstar and pogoplug, but it is originally for Sheevaplug... http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.htmlby davygravy - Debian
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
gz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just wanted to say thanks -- the new u-boot works > great. glad it was helpful > On my Ubuntu machine, nc -l -u -p 6666 (with > nc.traditional) is enough to give me read/write on > the boot console; didn't seem to need to launch a > second process. that sounds right... > Also this doesn'tby davygravy - uBoot
Re: Recovery from a Blown Serial Port - 13 years ago
It will only work if it is just a simple blown port. If there is something within the processor that is shot/shorted/failed, then it wouldn't work. http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1120#p13778 shows my efforts ... After a successful jtag flash, power down the kirkwood device, and disconnect the JTAG adapter from it. Restart & cross fingers... may work, maby davygravy - uBoot
Re: 1-Wire Weather-Station/Cam -- can it be standalone? - 13 years ago
Well, the previous routers were Asus WL520 and RT-N16... I wanted (_needed_ or really just liked) TomatoUSB, and I couldn't get a good webcam to work nicely... I realize that I might have tried OpenWRT... but I really liked the greater umphhhh that Kirkwood supplies.by davygravy - Debian
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
That's great, Joschi75. I'm glad to hear that it worked for you. Concerning nc vs. socat, there are a lot of options for using each of them... I just recently tried socat, and it works fine. Over the years, nc has worked well for me, in both Ubuntu/Debian Linux, and with Mac OS X Leopard/SnowLeopard. I use either of these: nc -klu 6666 nc -up 6666 192.168.xxx.yyy 6666 wheby davygravy - uBoot
Re: Can't boot into debian after powerfail - 13 years ago
check three things... -is it really an ext2 partition or is it ext3? (yes, it makes a difference) -the the partition clean? (fsck blahblahblah) -is that uImage-mtd.img actually the right format for uboot?by davygravy - Debian
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
Kk, thanks. No changes needed is the best solution then.by davygravy - uBoot
Re: semi-bricked goflex net, no nand-backup - 13 years ago
Did you get it fix? If so, how?by davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
Yes, good question. I'll clarify that in the post. I guess that I should have foreseen that. =============================== Now reads: davygravy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Quotedavygravy make it boot 3.2 kernels and higher, with default (non-expert) config settings, as well as the pre-3.2 stock Debian kernels,by davygravy - uBoot
Re: Newer uBoot as workaround to 3.2 kernel problem? - 13 years ago
I'm putting up directions right now... these should be finalized and tested a few times by March 13. See the first post of the thread for a preview...by davygravy - uBoot
Recovery from a Blown Serial Port - 13 years ago
Just for posterity/anyone who needs an idea ... I had an expendable Pogoplug V2/E02 that I'd picked up as bricked... recovered it via serial cable and used it as a test subject. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the serial port became fried... and I was unable to boot it any longer, plus the NAND contents had become trashed. It seems the fix for this was pretty predictable...by davygravy - uBoot
Re: 1-Wire Weather-Station/Cam -- can it be standalone? - 13 years ago
No idea, really. Do other devices on your network get a DHCP IP address as expected?by davygravy - Debian
Re: debootstrap failed - 13 years ago
In general, follow the steps on this tutorial: http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/ but use this script from Shyd, instead of Jeff's Script : wget http://dev.shyd.de/dockstar/dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh or see http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,4244,4587#msg-4587by davygravy - Debian
Re: debootstrap failed - 13 years ago
Did you use Shyd's newer version of Jeff's script? AFAIK, Jeff's script no longer works... There is a thread called "Squeeze Installer Broken" or something such... find Shyd's first entry on that... it will explain the fix/new script needed. BTW, good job recovering your box w/ JTAG. It is a nice tool to have around.by davygravy - Debian
Re: HowTo: Mainline/Minimal Wheezy Install via Debian Installer/Netboot - 13 years ago
Robert Mugabe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Howdy davygravy Howdy back @ u, Mugabe! > I normally cross-install Wheezy under QEMU for the > Dockstar to a USB flash drive. I take it that you > are installing Wheezy to a USB device and that > apart from the device specific u-boot and machid > this method is equally applicable to the Doby davygravy - Debian