This may be a silly question, but it's best to be sure. Did you run "apt-get update," or "apt-get upgrade?" "update" is what you said, all that does is updates apt's package information; it doesn't download any packages or install them. "upgrade" is what upgrades the packages (including your kernel) on your computer.by ayrlander - Debian
You also need to run "fw_setenv usb_rootfstype ext3" as root to change it; that variable defaults to ext2 and seems to override /etc/fstab.by ayrlander - Debian
That's a safe assumption. I don't think Jeff keeps older versions readily available for download. The script always pulls down the latest and greatest.by ayrlander - uBoot
I'm not sure of a way to determine the uBoot version. But to upgrade, follow the install instructions at the top of http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/by ayrlander - uBoot
Yay. Flashed and nothing bad happened. And my LED works out of the box. :-) Only weird thing was, before I rebooted, I ran "fw_setenv rootfstype ext3" to reset that, since after flashing I saw it had gotten reset to ext2. But, after rebooting, it's back to ext2, and that's how / is mounted. Except I just now noticed it should be usb_rootfstype. Oops. So now I have aby ayrlander - Debian
Bother. How do we flash again, by just running http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/install_uboot_mtd0.sh? It's been a while for me: 233% uptime 20:16:14 up 30 days, 23:50, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 And can it be flashed while running Debian, or must I go into the native environment?by ayrlander - Debian
I hadn't known about that step, thanks. Is the newest uBoot really necessary? I'm deathly afraid of flashing while I've got a working setup.... :-)by ayrlander - Debian
In the last kirkwood update or two, the changelog has the following: * ARM: update mach types. * Enable MACH_DOCKSTAR. I haven't rebooted, so I can't say exactly what that does. But google for MACH_DOCKSTAR, and you find a patch by ecc, here.by ayrlander - Debian
So does installing flash-kernel result in a usable setup on the Dockstars? That is, we don't have to run mkimage manually as it does in Jeff's install script, but just install the flash-kernel package and it'll create a bootable image? My Dockstar has been running for 24 days now, partly because I'm afraid to reboot after the initrd got updated and I ran mkimage to create aby ayrlander - Debian
Before I mucked with things and possibly made my system unbootable, I wanted to ask the question first.... Since installing Debian, I've noticed that my root partition is mounted twice: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) /etc/fstab includes the following: /dev/root / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0by ayrlander - Debian
Quotegzader How did you get lsusb? I dont seem to have that on mine. Install the package "usbutils"; that's where it lives.by ayrlander - Debian
QuoteH.Humpel Looks like the new initramfs had an error (as the other files in the boot dir had the same size on both systems). It sounds like it may have been the same problem others had, but for some reason running mkimage on the initrd file didn't work for you. Hopefully that was just a one-time glitch.... :-) Everyone needs to remember in the future, though, to run mkimage after anyby ayrlander - Debian
It sounds like you were successful in mounting your usb drive on another system. That should help a lot. If you can check the status of the networking files, you can also look in /boot and see which kernel version(s) you have. You may also be able to look in /var/log/dpkg.log (look for "image" to see when it was upgraded by apt-get/aptitude/dpkg) and maybe /var/log/dmesg for some bby ayrlander - Debian
If you like exim, there's probably no reason to switch. I can't imagine it'd use that much more memory than some of the alternatives. Personally, I prefer postfix only for its configuration; I never noticed its memory usage, but with a swap file I don't worry about it that much as I don't get a lot of mail sent to my Dockstar (and it's all spam that I simply forwarby ayrlander - Debian
Most of your first paragraph was over my head. :-) Standard uBoot install on the Dockstar, no rescue system yet, just the default Pogoplug firmware, no clue what a raw uImage partition is. So I simply ran mkimage for uInitrd, since that's all that got updated by aptitude, and next time I reboot I'll cross my fingers. :-) But it's good to know that every time the initrd or vmliby ayrlander - Debian
I ran "aptitude full-upgrade" today, as is my habit for keeping my packages up to date. I noticed that the initramfs-tools package was upgraded. Which is fine, but then I saw: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-kirkwood After that, I checked /boot and saw that indeed the initrd.img file had been updated. But, uInitrd had not. Question: any time the vmlinuz fiby ayrlander - Debian
I just started using a WD Elements drive for my Dockstar Debian. For me, it has the advantage of being silent, unlike the external enclosure I'd been using until recently. It was also dirt cheap ($25 for a 120GB model, but now it's back up to $30). Now, I have the hard drive, Dockstar, DSL modem, and wifi modem all in the same space acting as our home's network center, and itby ayrlander - Debian
It no longer matters if it was ill-advised or not; I charged ahead anyway, and ran the installer from within my plugbox install. Commented out the uboot line, changed /dev/sda to /dev/sdb to match my second drive that I was installing Debian to, other minor tweaking, and Debian installed fine. Used chroot to install and configure a bunch of services I knew I would need, and now my Dockstar is rby ayrlander - Debian
The version number is part of the package name, so try "apt-get install liborc-0.4-0" and that should do it.by ayrlander - Debian
Hi, all. I've been using Plugbox Linux for a couple of months now with my Dockstar. I just purchased a new 120GB hard drive for it, and I'm thinking of trying out Debian on my Dockstar, given all my desktops and servers already use Debian. I'm wary, though, of installing the bootloader again, given problems I've had in the past. I installed Jeff's bootloader a few wby ayrlander - Debian