Hi bodhi, > Does this board has a RTC battery? I would remove > it during this power draining period, too. Good idea, but did not help. Unplugged it for an hour. Still no signs of life. > There is also another trick. Run kwboot in > debugging mode. I see that you are running the > 2022.04 version, was that built from u-boot > mainline tree? that latest kwboot is quiby hofensmax - uBoot
> So I'll try with different cables once again and > hope for the best. Nope, cable change did not improve the situation.by hofensmax - uBoot
Hi bodhi, > So are you running mainline ARMv7 Debian kernel, > with my DTB? And booting from HDD raw sectors like > in the Debian Wiki page describes? Exactly. > True, this image is the wrong one. But we'd want > to see kwboot transfer it. Yup. > I think the problem could be somewhere at the > serial header and the wires. Make sure the wires > areby hofensmax - uBoot
Hi bodhi, thanks for your help. Interesting to learn, that even in that situation it should be able to recover using uboot. So I did some googling, waded through the gpl stuff from synology and finally settled to try an uboot image, that you compiled some time ago for a more or less similar board: https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,76314,85779#msg-85779 just to test kwboot. However the kwbby hofensmax - uBoot
Dear Forum, recently a lightning struck in my neighborhood and destroyed my router plus everything that was attached to it via cable. Fortunately my synology had only its ethernet fried and was doing quite well when I checked in via UART. So I followed the guide on https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Synology to get a usb ethernet adapter loading and enjoyed a real debian system. Life wby hofensmax - uBoot