Dear bodhi, Makes perfect absolute sense, thanks for clarity :)by DonCharisma - Debian
wow, an oldie but goody thread, was actually here searching for info on how to reduce flash writes again ... I noticed Armbian have adopted zram for helping reduce swapping by compressing memory for a swap space, and log2ram for logging to memory, with configurability of when logs are flushed out to disk/flash ... Unfortunately, neither is in a standalone package, they are built into Armbian .by DonCharisma - Debian
I just setup a GFN boot onto rootfs RAID on Debian Stretch (which requires a seperate /boot partition for initramfs, kernel and device tree nonsense). uBoot reported that it couldn't find the .dtb file - /boot/dts/kirkwood-goflexhome.dtb, although it found and loaded kernel and initramfs. I checked and double checked everything, tried recopying the dts files from my other machine. uBoot wby DonCharisma - uBoot
@bodhi ... very well put :) ... and yes, I just had a CPU hogging rsync on GFN, so makes perfect senseby DonCharisma - Debian
I've been using vi for years, I know there's other/better editors, but, I prefer to stick to what I'm used to. After recent upgrade of my GFN from Jessie -> Stretch, vi/vim started to behave oddly. In particular on serial console vi became "mouse aware", making it difficult to copy and paste from outside the console, and instead of a screen of white text on black, Iby DonCharisma - Debian
> BTW, I removed the drive from the enclosure and ho > oked it up by SATA in my xubuntu desktop. I ran gs > martmon on it there and it tested fine. If you have smartctl access with your xubuntu machine, with direct attached SATA, then smartctl can do short and long tests on the drive, might be worth running those, eg : smartctl --test=long /dev/sda smartctl --test=short /deby DonCharisma - Debian
I think @bodhi's sequence of commands will work fine, so just adding to this as an option ... I generally use always the same command for migrating a Debian installation, which always seems to work fine : rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"}by DonCharisma - Debian
YW @bodhi :) I think this is going to be a common problem for those upgrading Jessie -> Stretch on lower memory devices, such as some of the devices we hack/modify/improve here ... A preferable solution would be a mod to the daemon-reload process so it doesn't have a hard limit of 16M, but I don't know how to hack that. BRby DonCharisma - Debian
Hey bodhi ... yes, I understand, sorry I didn't mean to mislead anyone ! ... the link cited in the debian bugs site ( https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/ch03s04.html.en ) suggests that Debian may run in as little as 20MB in some configs ... the same page for Stretch indicates 60MB ... 128MB is their "recommended bare minimum" for both wheezy and stretch, although theyby DonCharisma - Debian
Thanks @bastel and @Marry_Pi for suggestions, hope they might help someone :)by DonCharisma - Debian
I got this also during dist-upgrade Jessie -> Stretch on GoFlexNet. There's a thread about it on Debian bug forums - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862013 One of the responders ("Michael Biebl") indicates that minimum memory for Debian now is 256MB, which I think is incorrect, the link he points to says actually a minimum of 128MB (and I checked for ARM,by DonCharisma - Debian
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don, > > > Would I be safe in assuming with md arrays using > m > > dadm (and btrfs), that I would have to have a se > pa > > rate /boot partition, of ext2/3/4 ? > > No need to have separate partition. Just a normal > rootfs. But you will need to ensure the md module > anby DonCharisma - uBoot
Thanks @bodhi, Would I be safe in assuming with md arrays using mdadm (and btrfs), that I would have to have a separate /boot partition, of ext2/3/4 ?by DonCharisma - uBoot
twinclouds Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sata is even better. Very true in most circumstances :)by DonCharisma - Off-Topic
Probably more a question for @bodhi than anyone, but any advise welcomed :) My question is what file systems can the current 2016.05 Uboot boot ? ext2 / ext3 - I know from my own experience work fine, although ext2 is a bit fragile with the lack of journal, so have preferred ext3 ext4 ? (says so on the post) mdadm RAID 1 with 1.0 metadata / 0.9 metadata ... other RAID levels ? 1.2 metby DonCharisma - uBoot
@bodhi - thanks :) ... I'm trying a PC based raid5 project at the moment with mini-itx ... for multi-bay enclosure I currently like "Oimaster SWAP 4 HE 2006" which can be bought for 20£-30£, takes 4 x 2.5" drives ... port multiplier I will have a dabble once I can get an multiplier board ... @twinclouds, thanks, I had forgotten about Pogoplug 4 (with USB3 is pretty cool)by DonCharisma - Off-Topic
MPW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I found a solution: The latest version of crashpla > n includes it's own libjni. You have to delete it > from the installation folder to force crashplan to > use the arm version from the system. Sounds about right, crashplan likes to "upgrade" itself every five minutes, so therefore things liby DonCharisma - Debian
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > IMO, Marvell SoC based boxes are the best for NAS > (real Gbits LAN, SATA, PCI ie USB3.0). > > I also agreed, other boads such as rPi, Odroid, an > d Allwinner, are not good for NAS. They meant to b > e used as desktops or media players. The lack of t > rue Gbits Ethenet and/or SATA means worseby DonCharisma - Off-Topic
@:bodhi, thanks for providing this for us, appreciated ... I just successfully upgraded to 4.10 kernel :)by DonCharisma - Debian
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don, > > > Only issue left now is that netconsole seems to > be > > masking some of the serial output (immediately a > ft > > er starting netconsole in uboot), will try switc > hi > > ng off netconsole as I'm preferring serial conne > ct > > ion these days. Alsoby DonCharisma - uBoot
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but ... It seems when starting netconcole as "preboot" in uboot, serial console is disconnected, which as I'm prefering serial these days I lost all the messages on serial coming from uboot. But I do get the serial console back when kernel starts. My solution was to set the uboot variable "preboot" to empty (ie blank), now I don'tby DonCharisma - uBoot
I've done quite a lot of research on this, and wondered what other people's experiences/opinions are. It seems looking around that there are many different manufacturers of ARM processors, well, of the type of CPUs we're talking about in these forums. I've had a look at Raspberry Pi and Odroid, Odroid in most detail so far. What I generally end up finding is that almost eveby DonCharisma - Off-Topic
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DonCharisma Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Thanks for putting this together for us @bodhi, > ho > > pe you are well ... I just upgraded successfully > u > > boot to latest version on my GFN ... only issue > is > > ethaddr : > >by DonCharisma - uBoot
Thanks for putting this together for us @bodhi, hope you are well ... I just upgraded successfully uboot to latest version on my GFN ... only issue is ethaddr : root@GoFlexNet1:~/uboot# fw_setenv ethaddr 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX' Can't overwrite "ethaddr" Does setting the MAC address "correctly" matter ? ie can I just leave it with what it's set to ? (nby DonCharisma - uBoot
@renojim I'd entirely forgotten we had this conversation. I've had some power issues with my Odroid board connecting external hard drives. My solution was to build my own custom USB cable, which "injects" 5v DC, instead of it being powered by my Odroid. It takes some dismantling of USB cables and soldering, but do-able ... Something like this http://s15.postimg.org/u9ip1by DonCharisma - Debian
PS, openwrt also has an info page on serial cables, which I'm 99.9% sure is applicable to serial connections to embedded ARM boards : https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/port.serial.cables Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@Bodhi, understand, github is presumably for source code ... just a useful feature I didn't know about !by DonCharisma - Debian
I struggled for a long time without one, but serial cable has pride of place in my toolbox, and highly recommended :) Less than £5 I think I paid from Amazon.co.uk ... one like this : http://www.amazon.co.uk/super9shop-PL2303HX-RS232-module-Converter/dp/B008AGDTA4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1449245152&sr=8-2&keywords=usb+to+ttl+cable or this : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fivesix-PL2by DonCharisma - Debian
Have you tried php-fusion forum with the same question ? Seems it may not be an ARM or Debian issue, but obviously no way for me to know that for sure ... Good to know nginx working on ARM, it's my preference these days ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian