Is your serial connection working properly? Do you have some sort of linux installation (like Ubuntu) on a laptop or desktop? If you can answer YES to both of these questions, then proceed, if you want to...: If you want a fresh new Debian on it, you can do this: 1. Put the newer U-Boot on it that can run the newer kernels properly : http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,6965 use the GoFlby davygravy - uBoot
Hi, welcome, you are among friends... not sure what the timeframe will be but people generally help out here when they can... So, what are your intentions? Do you want to truly Debianize this, and not go back to the GFH OS? It looks like you have the original U-Boot in NAND still. I'm not sure I know how to go back to the original OS, but I think we can help you get Debian running oby davygravy - uBoot
hi bodhi, nc resides and runs on the laptop/desktop computer you are running - it is usually included in any Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch Linux) installation. What distro are you using? If you are using Windows, I'm sure there is a port of it for Windows as well.by davygravy - Debian
Yes, see : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg60204.htmlby davygravy - Debian
I'm not sure that is it. It might be peripherally related, but I don't think it is the cause of what _we_ are seeing. (here is an interesting snippet: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg60204.html ) On the 3.3.2 kernel: rescue:/# cat config | grep EHCI CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED=y # CONFby davygravy - Rescue System
Goetz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Davygravy, > thanks for the updates Rescuesystem. I've > installed on my dockstart to replace an outdated > OpenWRT and it works fine > Could you please publish your build root changes, > as I would like to build an complete system, not > just a rescue one. > thanks, > Goetz. Yesby davygravy - Rescue System
KK, sounds great. BTW, a newer updated version of the rescue that (truly) parallels the behavior of Jeff's V2 + wider-kernel-support+avahi+gdisk is just a few days away now... You'll want to upgrade from that previous "testing" version, as it has some shortcomings...by davygravy - Rescue System
@ all : I'm reworking something w/ the 2.1 ... and will (hopefully) post later this or next week w/ an improvement. Being able to Debootstrap or run Jeff's installer from here is a requirement, and apparently it fails on at least one of those two. ===================================== @ dheerajjotwani : we want you to get help w/ your installation or issue, but you should reallyby davygravy - Rescue System
I definitely would contribute! I can't be a moderator, but I'm sure I have 3 or 4 articles that I could contribute.by davygravy - Debian
Kk. If you spot a problem plz post backby davygravy - Debian
Dunno right now Out of state n away from home for a week or so.by davygravy - Debian
Dunno right now Out of state n away from home for a week or so.by davygravy - Debian
Is it working well enough to send commands and receive output?by davygravy - uBoot
Sounds like you have some sort of intermittent connectivity issue. If you can see the prompt even a little bit then it is connected. Is it a busy or noisy network?by davygravy - uBoot
try socat STDIO UDP-LISTEN:6666 ... and... also, are your network and your desktop/laptop set on the proper ip addresses/ranges to make this work? Make sure you've set your serverip and ipaddr correctly...by davygravy - uBoot
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,7676 good luck, hope you get it working... if you don't you can always try Ubuntu + CodeSourcery toolchain... very, very fast...by davygravy - Debian
for grins and giggles you can try the kernel in this section : It is a 3.3.2 Debian profile kernel that supports a few other machines... it could be a holdover problem on 3.2...by davygravy - Debian
Do we need support for partitions of size > 2TB? What kind of priority is that for users?by davygravy - Rescue System
The question is not philosophical, but rather practical. We'll be moving to larger hdd's soon. For the entire Kirkwood community... ALARM folks please chime in to as we all use Linux and U-Boot.. What do we need, from the ground up? What is missing from this list? a kernel that has support for EFI & GPT gdisk utilities in A) our Wheezy Debootstrap script B) in any future Reby davygravy - Debian
Robert Mugabe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > davygravy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I'm mulling that over right now... I've been > using > > them successfully for about 3 months now... > > although I thought differently back in > February, > > no really significaby davygravy - uBoot
I'm mulling that over right now... I've been using them successfully for about 3 months now... although I thought differently back in February, no really significant features that would affect Kirkwood greatly have made it into mainline. As such, I think they are ready to go.by davygravy - uBoot
Working on a V2.5 or 3 ... moved to Buildroot 2012.02, have uclibc reconfigured to work with newer source, and now re--re-rebuilding....by davygravy - Rescue System
At my workplace, it is an NAS (AFP and SAMBA), a TimeCapsule (for Apple TimeMachine backups), a wireless bridge, and a media server... I never tried WDS with it... I don't know whether that is supported, or if it works... please let us know back here if it does work for you.by davygravy - Debian
I thank you so much for trying that. When you say it didn't preserve it do you mean that it would have to be restored from the env that is nanddumped just before flashing? Or ? Also, what about upgrading U-Boot on a Debian system? Or other (e.g. ArchLinuxARM)? I'm assuming that this script just handles new installs...or does it also work with upgrades?by davygravy - uBoot
I do not have an md5 sum for it, but I can tell you that since it is a tarball, both tarred and gzipped, it is pretty unlikely that it could be corrupted, unless it won't untar. If it won't untar/gunzip, then it is corrupt. If it does untar&gunzip, then it is OK. hth, davyby davygravy - uBoot
No idea. Never saw it come on.by davygravy - Rescue System
Starbuck : just to let you know ... another user found a problem w/ the image that was in the tarball. It has been updated. The problem is with the apt-get infrastructure : /var/lib and some other contents were clobbered. You should re-download the tarball and then you can use that. And yes, it will run on your machine - just about any Kirkwood machine.by davygravy - uBoot
Good catch... it is certainly borked... will repost the "larger" tarball. Fixed, tested and uploading. (yes, apt-get works fine, /var/lib/dpkg and all the goodies are there)by davygravy - Debian
varkey: please try this: boot into rescue mode, wait a moment, and then insert a USB drive and mount it mount /dev/sda1 /mnt For me, it seems to autoload the module needed for sdX devices, once issue a mount command. There is some basic udev infrastructure built in IIUC. To me it looks like the _insertion_ (or presence) of the device doesn't create node, but rather the accessing ofby davygravy - Rescue System