Hi Bodhi, sorry for long time. I luckily had another one of those devices, in a working condition :) I'll try to get a working u-boot from that device. I asked chatgpt4 of how would I do that with that u-boot of AS1002t, so it responded like this: usb start #assumes I have a USB disk here mtdparts nand read 0x80000000 0x0 0x1000000 # Reads 16MB from NAND starting at offset 0 ext4writeby ahlaklisuvari - Debian
Here comes how I did it. This isn't risk free, but pretty much safe. I just install this on an HDD, so if you can revert u-boot back, you can restore stock fw easily. First of all, there are some problems with ethernet on this device. Sometimes device doesn't respond. But, you can just try this, this commands fixed it for some other marvell device of mine. I don't have that deviceby ahlaklisuvari - uBoot
I contacted their support, they didn't give me the u-boot :/by ahlaklisuvari - Debian
There is definitely only one ethernet port on this. Not two. So both of those files have 2 ethernets? When I boot the installer with that dtb file, it asks me it can't find the ethernet driver, and makes me choose an etherenet driver. I also selected that "mvneta" driver once, on both dtb files. I appended each of them to vmlinuz, nothing. Still it didn't work. Only thby ahlaklisuvari - Debian
Surely you could install debian to it, but using another HDD or SSD. But, this device has a 1GB NAND flash built in. You might want to install alpine to it, it will have almost 600MB of empty space then. How to install Debian This device is X86 Intel atom. So it has a easy BIOS interface. Just setup an serial console to it, plug a keyboard. I forgot the exact colors of serial. But you will sby ahlaklisuvari - Debian
Here they are Bodhi. Hope this helps.by ahlaklisuvari - Debian
So not all ARM Nas's are stable for debian. What are some good choices? I am thinking about Seagate Personal Cloud (1 bay only), which is supported by debian. But do all stuff work? For example, poweroff, reboot, wake on lan, CPU energy saving modes? What would be a good choice? My number one is: Iomega PX4-300D. Ethernets work, wake on lan works. Power draw is around 15W at idle. This isby ahlaklisuvari - Debian
How is the stability on this device? I used an Asustor AS-1002T for it, but ethernet wasn't stable, it would go down sometimes. I think it sends too much voltage to the ethernets. It seemed dangerous to me so I cancelled it. It used "mvneta" ethernet driver for it, but it wasn't stable.by ahlaklisuvari - Debian
DAMN I DID IT!!! I APPENDED THE DTB LIKE YOU SAID AND WOW! AND I THINK 0x8000 WASNT A GOOD ADDRESS. HERE S HOW! Marvell>> ext2load scsi 0:1 0x3000000 /vmlinux 5443723 bytes read in 258 ms (20.1 MiB/s) Marvell>> ext2load scsi 0:1 0x4000000 /initrdeski 23400842 bytes read in 692 ms (32.2 MiB/s) Marvell>> setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait&by ahlaklisuvari - uBoot
Quotebodhi It must have the DTB appended like the installer, and must be in u-boot format (i.e. uImage, uInitrd). These images have a u-boot header and a payload. DTB appended, got it. I assume it is done with something similiar with those mkimage commands? I think I've done it too. I've appended the dtb to vmlinuz and turned it into a uImage in the end. Just curious, why not zImage thby ahlaklisuvari - uBoot
I don't think MTD is a problem here, I simply don't touch MTD. But on HDD. The installer run just fine, with that caiman.dtb file. Even recognized the ethernet. After the installer, it won't boot now. Did I create kernel images just the wrong way? Does update-initramfs -u add that dtb file to the kernel images whatsoever?by ahlaklisuvari - uBoot
Yes I know that much, that's why I didn't do any of these commands and asked chatgpt. Also mtd wasn't visible to the debian installer anyway.by ahlaklisuvari - uBoot
I was trying to install debian armhf to my Asustor AS-1002T NAS. I used debian Linksys WRT-AC1200 official guide: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Linksys/WRT1200AC because it used the same CPU, and probably same ethernet driver too. Because it downloaded all the stuff from the internet inside the installer, so it works. Changed the links and stuff to the bookworm accordingly. So, I seby ahlaklisuvari - uBoot