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Re: Debian trixie for Kirkwood boxes - 14 days ago
The support for the original i386 was dropped in Linux 3.8, more than 10 years ago. AFAIK the main problem with the i386 was a missing CMPXCHG opcode, which made it hard to maintain.by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Debian on Lacie 5big2 - 7 weeks ago
I'm afraid my 2Big2 died a few years ago. Bad capacitor, I thought, but exchanging it didn't solve the problem. So either my diagnostic or my soldering capacities are bad. However, according to strings the u-boot of the D2 Network2 supports the usb subsystem. And while I was searching for a u-boot dump for the 2Big2 or 5Big2 I found this: https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Debian on Lacie 5big2 - 7 weeks ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. My old 2Big2 didn't have a writable u-boot config, and the stock environment reads a uImage from the raw partition sda6, and then boots it with the kernel commandline root=/dev/sda7. A default Debian boot with initramfs is not possible without exchanging u-boot, AFAIK. However, you can simply write your rootfs to /dev/sda7 and write the uby Mijzelf - Debian
Re: WD My Cloud Gen 1 - MindSpeed Chip - 4 months ago
The Mindspeed Comcerto alas doen't have upstream support in the Linux kernel. Only the kernel provided in the vendor provided SDK is available (3.2.54). In your case using the stock kernel is also problematic, as the SoC supports both 4k and 64k memory pages, and the stock kernel uses 64k, which is not compatible with the 'normal' Debian arm7hf rootfs. But you can have a look herby Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: Unbrick Synology DS414J - 6 months ago
It should be something like eth0.ipaddr=192.168.1.191 eth0.serverip=192.168.1.139 https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/comment/35771/#Comment_35771by Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 7 months ago
Quote HD44780: open(/dev/lcd) failed: Operation not permitted What does 'ls -l /dev/lcd*' say? Quote What indicates that the LCD display on the RN104 is a USB device and not a parallel port device? It's not a patallel port device. What was the last time you saw a parallel port? It could be usb, or i2c, or gpio connected, or... . The driver should take care for that.by Mijzelf - Displays
Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 7 months ago
I can't imagine you'd need /dev/parport0. I suppose that is used when you have connected an LCD display to the parallel port, and lcd4linux does the bitbanging in user mode. But you have a driver which should do that work. According to the documentation there should be a /dev/lcd. This wiki suggests that lcd4linux can also handle that.by Mijzelf - Displays
Re: NSA325 - Restore to stock firmware - 8 months ago
When the position and sizes of the u-boot and u-boot env partitions didn't change, I *think* you only need the stock u-boot environment. The firmware itself is capable of filling the other partitions. Put back the original u-boot environment, download the right RescueStick here, unzip it to a FAT formatted USB thumb drive. Extract the uImage from the file ras.bin (binwalk can tell you whereby Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: Help Unbrinking WD EX2 Ultra (Debian)- Bricked after flashing new uInitrd and uImage - 8 months ago
As long as the bootloader isn't damaged, you can recover it. But you'll need serial connection.by Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: NAS326 how to boot with UART? - 8 months ago
@martini: That is a neat trick. Do you have any idea why it works? I'd say that for ddr training it doesn't matter if the binary is read from uart or from nand. So which subtle effect is causing this?by Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: Bricked Synology DS218j - 9 months ago
In that case mkimage will be dependent on other files which cannot be found due to the different path. You can try to chroot it: chroot /volumeUSB1/usbshare/ /bin/sh That creates a new root in /volumeUSB1/usbshare/, and executes /bin/sh from there. So /volumeUSB1/usbshare/ becomes / in that shell. Then you can cd /boot /usr/bin/mkimage ... By executing 'exit' you leave theby Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Bricked Synology DS218j - 9 months ago
Use the full path: /volumeUSB1/usbshare/usr/bin/mkimageby Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Schizophrenic GPT implementation in first generation Armada 370 u-boot - 11 months ago
# gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.6 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT Your answer: 1 Disk /dev/sda: 7814037168 sectors, 3.6 TiB Model: TOSHIBA HDWD240 Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes Disk identifiby Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: TFTP on Pogoplug-B01 - 11 months ago
Is it possible that you have a variable 'machtype' or something like that with value 1152 in your environment? Try to delete it, or set it to -1.by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Schizophrenic GPT implementation in first generation Armada 370 u-boot - 11 months ago
Unfortunately that doesn't work. U-boot recognizes the hybid partition table, reads the GPT and errors out. You could create a hybrid table, and then delete the 'ee' entry in MBR, but I suppose gdisk doesn't support that.by Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: Schizophrenic GPT implementation in first generation Armada 370 u-boot - 11 months ago
The trick is simple. Use parted or fdisk to create a GPT partition table with a small boot partition (to contain the kernel and initamfs. 100MB or something like that) and further a rootfs partition and maybe a data partition, ... . The partition editor will automatically create a protective MBR table. Then use 'fdisk -t mbr <device>' to let fdisk ignore the GPT table, remove theby Mijzelf - uBoot
Re: Walmart: Gateway Ultra Slim Notebook under US $80 (11.6") and US $100 (14.1") - 11 months ago
Quote WARNING - California Proposition 65 Warning: This product can expose you to chemicals, such as lead, known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. Does that mean anything? Is it just a disclaimer, or is the notebook actually more toxic than other ones?by Mijzelf - Off-Topic
Re: Here we go: Prime Day(s) - 1 year ago
habibie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Regardless, it > says it supports hot swap. However, I still have > to manually sync and dismount the HDD before pull > it out from the hard drive dock. AFAIK supporting hotswap for a harddisk dock only means that the earth pin will connect first, so that a difference in potential is not absorbed by the dby Mijzelf - Off-Topic
Re: [NSA325] I'm having trouble building the uInitrd - 1 year ago
*Is* initrd.img-5.17.4-kirkwood-tld-1 gzip compressed?by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Can openwrt be installed to and boot from USB? - 1 year ago
> Exactly as you point out, the chef build adds modules to rootfs instead of integrating them into kernel so it's no good. That is a consequence of OpenWrt. It's designed to run on devices which are sparse in memory and storage. So everything which is not needed to bring up a minimal functionality is added as a module. To add usb storage and ext4 support to the kernel, it would havby Mijzelf - Rescue System
Re: Can openwrt be installed to and boot from USB? - 1 year ago
pm4888 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ok Openwrt for E02 has different MTD structure, > but it is not a big deal when usb boot is used, > right? As long as you don't actually flash it, it doesn't matter. > What's the difference say between uboot for kirkwood and uboot for rockchip? Huge. uboot doesn't only load the kernelby Mijzelf - Rescue System
Re: Can openwrt be installed to and boot from USB? - 1 year ago
An initramfs kernel doesn't need to support usb or ext4 in order to be booted from usb. It's the bootloader who reads it from usb, and starts it. However, if you need to access the usb filesystem from your running OpenWrt, you can create a custom image here: https://chef.libremesh.org/ You have to add at least kmod-fs-ext4 and kmod-usb-storage. More info can be found here. But beby Mijzelf - Rescue System
Re: Back-up SATA rootfs without dismount the disk. - 1 year ago
No, it won't work. Point 5 will fail, as you'll first have to mount it. But it isn't necessary to use another rootfs, you can simply backup the running roofs: tar -cjf /path/to/backup_of_rootfs.tar.bz2 --one-file-system /by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Need help compiling WIFI adapter for Realtek USB3.0 802.11ac 1200M Adapter - 1 year ago
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-switch-between-multiple-gcc-and-g-compiler-versions-on-ubuntu-22-04-lts-jammy-jellyfishby Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Internal SATA mount bay 1 - 1 year ago
No. md0 is the first raid array. As it's assembled automatically, it's probably a single disk raid1 array. The mtd blocks normally don't show up in blkid as it's content is too low level to have an UUID. A possible fstab entry could be /dev/md0 /srv/nsa32 ext4 defaults 0 0by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Need help compiling WIFI adapter for Realtek USB3.0 802.11ac 1200M Adapter - 1 year ago
Biohead Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it > seems a downgrade to GCC isn't as straightforward > as I'd hoped, What do you mean? On my system (Buster) apt list | grep gcc shows (among others) gcc-7-base > (A genuine question: would there been any benefit > to AC speeds on these boxes? Are they quick enough > to actually bby Mijzelf - Debian
Re: Internal SATA mount bay 1 - 1 year ago
Quote loop0 ext4 1.0 304a4dce-e926-4081-a5f7-a308c5d320cf 1.2T 34% /srv/nsa32 sda |-sda1 | ext2 1.0 0f1b4806-89db-4c26-8eae-ab98b5a023a9 `-sda2 linux_ 1.2 NSA325:0 20f70310-7a8f-ddcd-bce5-e6f194937a3c `-md0 ext4 1.0 304a4dce-e926-4081-a5f7-a308c5d320cf Can't you just mount /dev/md0? It's the saby Mijzelf - Debian
Re: NSA325 - Really very boob question. - 1 year ago
miazza Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you mean I have to download it un a Linux PC > and copy on NSA325 to be executed ? No. You have to execute in on a Linux PC, and copy the created uImage to the NSA325.by Mijzelf - Debian
Re: NSA325 - Really very boob question. - 1 year ago
mkimage is (in Debian) in package u-boot-tools QuoteIf I want to revert to original FW what shall I do ? is it sufficient to remove USB ? Which installation instructions are you using?by Mijzelf - Debian