Hmm, as far as I can tell, the stock bootloader doesn't seem to support netconsole. Via serial cable I made the following changes to the environment variables setenv ncip 10.10.10.5 setenv ipaddr 10.10.10.6 setenv serverip 10.10.10.3 setenv ncipk 10.10.10.4 setenv nc_start 'setenv stdin nc; setenv stdout nc; setenv stderr nc; version' setenv bootcmd 'run nc_start; rby Vlad - Debian
Thanks for the useful information, I'll keep this in mind. My iConnect is already here and unlocking it using the Arch Linux ARM instruction was really a piece of cake. So far I can boot from USB flash drives and I didn't even have to use the serial cable. As soon as I have more spare time, I'll create a proper serial cable out of that Nokia CA-42 and take a closer look at theby Vlad - Debian
Did you try 'apt-get -f install' as suggested by the pakage manager?by Vlad - Debian
Hi pazos, that sounds really interesting. Are there instructions for flashing that openwrt-Uboot available somewhere? Here http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1472 it is stated that iConnect has a rather recent uBoot, but I'm just wondering if it supports netconsole? As for me netconsole is actually the most brilliant feature of the Uboot, since it allows unbricking witby Vlad - Debian
rat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Vlad Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Thanks for the interesting discussion. Yesterday > I > > ordered an Iomega iConnect > > and a Nokia CA-42 cable, so that soon I'll have > > something to play with. I paid > > about 60 € for bothby Vlad - Debian
Thanks for the interesting discussion. Yesterday I ordered an Iomega iConnect and a Nokia CA-42 cable, so that soon I'll have something to play with. I paid about 60 € for both but taking into account that iConnect can run real Debian, the price is fine for me. My main goal is to use it as an internet radio and upnp server together with Logitech S-150 and a hacked USB photo frame. Afteby Vlad - Debian
I would be very careful about using mv_cesa. As I wanted to find out, if it's possible to encrypt the whole rootfs (see http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,6039,6083#msg-6083) I learned that with mv_cesa loaded the kernel would boot approximately in one case out of ten. Then I decided to to encrypt the rootfs without mv_cesa, but to use hardware offloading at least for the swap. Unfortunatelyby Vlad - Debian
@twinclouds That's right, when writing about devices with crippled Linux I didn't mean Dockstar and GoFlex Net/Home. Those are fine, but unfortunately the current prices are simply too high. Apparently, when a trader learns that people can run real Debian on a consumer ARM device that he happens to sell, the first thing that comes to his mind is to double or even triple the price. Thatby Vlad - Debian
Hi, I reall enjoy running Debian on my GoFlex Net which is as of now the cheapest and the most flexibel serverv I've ever had. However, it already has to perform so much different tasks that I start thinking about buying an additional device. In particular, I'd be like it to perform all the multimedia tasks (DLNA, streaming, radio etc.) , which as of now run on my GoFlex Net. My fby Vlad - Debian
There are a lot of things one can do, but I hardly think that anyone will have enough time to write a full blown howto. After all, people write whole books on Debian security and a newbie would hardly learn how to secure a server by just following the steps from someone's writeup. IMHO nice things are cron-apt: to make sure that you don't miss updates postfix+dovecot server (lan oby Vlad - Debian
rat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Only time my Dockstars have gone down is when I'm > finally getting around to making a Clonezilla > image for backup and duping everything onto a > different/new thumbdrive to keep things nice and > tidy. > > It's kind of annoying how I can sneeze and see > 100+ uptime days go by on thby Vlad - Debian
You seem to confuse some things. The bootloader doesn't depend on the distro you are using. Both u-BOOT and UBIT can boot any ARM distro and not only Arch or Debian. Secondly, in my post I also described a solution for the UBIT. I don't know how the init script looks like in Arch but the idea should be the same: uncompress initrd, hardcode the partition label, put initrd together againby Vlad - Debian
rgtaa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks , I'm still stuck, I'm hoping someone > could make a copy and paste thing. I followed > those links and other links but I don't see any > for just the dockstar ( I did install the programs > they suggested and tried to setup hostapd the > right way.) Not exactly sure what I'by Vlad - Debian
The most important thing is the bootloader. As soon as you have UBOOT or UBIT you can try a lot of things. Specifically for Debian Squeeze I can suggest my own howto: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,5986 This, however, assumes that you already have a modified bootloader .by Vlad - Debian
What you want is that Dockstar acts as a wireless access point. This should be achievable without much effort . Just google for "debian squeeze access point". There are pretty much howtos for that on the net http://agentoss.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/creating-a-wireless-access-point-with-debian-linux/ http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/05/setting-up-an-atheros-based-ap-using-ath5k-and-hostby Vlad - Debian
That's a known problem on the Goflex Net. The exact solution depends on the bootloader you have. See here http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,5775by Vlad - Debian
Frankly speaking I have no idea. I used this howto to setup my both HP printers as described above and everything works flawlessly on my iPad 2 with iOS 5.0.1. I haven't experienced a single error so far.by Vlad - Debian
In fact, to create a working Debian image you don't even need the Dockstar :) If you have some linux experience and a working linux system with Ubuntu or Debian, you should take a look be interested at my howto: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,5986by Vlad - Debian
Hi hanker, The thing is that UBIT can boot the system even without uInitd and I thought that UBOOT should be able to do this too. I updated the relevant part of the howto, though I still have no idea why Jeff's kernel doesn't work for you and bell. >This is a good approach because it makes it so that the procedure isn't dependent on custom files downloaded from >doozanby Vlad - Debian
Oh, I completely forgot that netconsole seems to work a bit differently on U-Boot. Then I guess the commands I provided will not work. Just check out Jeff's thread for the correct commands: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,14,14 As far as Jeff's 2.6.37 kernel is concerned, I guess it should work independently of the bootloader. I remember using it with Jeff's u-Boot at the veby Vlad - Debian
Usually it's codesourcery-arm-2009q3.sh make ARCH=arm CC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc but there's no guarantee that it always works. If it doesn't, you have to take a closer at the Makefile and figure out, what's going wrong. However, compiling hd-idle is pretty easy, because it is a source for a deb package. On Ubuntu you can do sth like this to get a final deb packageby Vlad - Debian
Hi bell, "/etc/apt/preferences" and "/etc/apt/apt.conf" are usually not there by default and must be created, but if it works the way you did it, this doesn't really matter. I'm not sure what the problem is, but did you try putting Jeff's uInitrd and uImage to /boot? That actually should work. You also write that you can see how U-Boot loads the kernel,by Vlad - Debian
Yes, you can use your Debian system to put a Debian image on the USB flash that will boot on the Dockstar. This, however, assumes that your bootloader has already been unlocked using Jeff's script. Here's my howto http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,5986,5986#msg-5986by Vlad - Debian
AFAIK, LEDs are supported by the mainline Debian kernel: QuoteNote: Newer Debian kernels include support for the Dockstar LED. Make sure you're running a newer uBoot and set arcNumber to 2998. Source: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,524,524#msg-524by Vlad - Debian
I have no idea. But since there's no known way to fix Pogo service after it has been broken, I wouldn't take the risk. Which means, if someone really needs that Pogo service , he or she better shouldn't use Jeff's script or any other script that modifies the bootloader.by Vlad - Debian
Try this http://www.rudiswiki.de/wiki/DockStarAutoMountSamba#Samba_Serverby Vlad - Debian
hanker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Now, if you have a Dockstar you may install the > > usual Debian stable kernel and create uImage > and > > uInitrd via mkimage. > > Could you go into a little more detail here and > show the actual commands that I would run on my > Dockstar? (I'm still kind of a n00b with thiby Vlad - Debian
No. Somehow Jeff's script breaks the Pogo partition such that the bootloader can't use it anymore. AFAIK nobody has yet figured out how to fix that.by Vlad - Debian
The modified initrd is about booting Debian. You should label p3 as rootfs, modify initrd, create uInitrd and put it to p1.by Vlad - Debian