Re: creating official Debian images for ARM-based NAS devices

2016-04-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
yourself. I think we should let the user run Debian installer instead of providing binary images. Installing such images is often much harder on NAS devices than simply running Debian installer. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: creating official Debian images for ARM-based NAS devices

2016-04-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
we provide installer images for a number of NAS devices that you can flash using the original firmware's upgrade process. When you reboot, you can SSH into Debian installer and do the installation. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: choosing low-power/low-noise/free NAS servers to run Debian

2016-04-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
-boot via the network and I'm about to finish Debian support. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Qnap TS-431+, Synology DS416 (AL-212)

2016-04-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
d any of these two devices right now if you want to run Debian. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Support for Marvell Armada 375 [was: Support for Annapurna Alpine]

2016-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
that available or in sight? Not that I'm aware of. But the Seagate devices I mentioned will finally be supported soon (still waiting for 4.4 to move to testing). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: QNAP TS-209II make bootable fails

2016-02-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Roberts <jo...@iinet.net.au> [2016-02-29 16:39]: > I may give the more recent link you suggested a go but I need to > verify a few other things first. jessie should work as well as the daily image Roger posted, which installs Debian testing. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: QNAP TS-209II make bootable fails

2016-02-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
echo "COMPRESS=xz" > /target/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/compress and run the installer step to make it bootable again. And BTW, I suggest you use ext4 rather than ext2. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Debian on ix2-200

2016-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
kernel you used), but you'd get the machine string I mentioned when you use the DTB with a current kernel. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Debian on ix2-200

2016-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
uld be interesting to see the original bootcmd because I suspect the device boots from flash. > I am not sure about the 3.17rc1 for the DTB-Append-From, but the 3.16 > kernel is not DTB enabled and the 4.3 is. It has always been DTB so you wouldn't need such a line, but you would need DTB-Ap

96Boards support in Debian

2016-02-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
reviewed but not committed yet. I think it makes sense for use to use u-boot. - Husky: not released yet but hopefully soon. Ricardo Salveti from Linaro submitted patches enabled kernel support and Ian committed it to git. I suspect Husky will use UEFI. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: marvell_cesa continues to fail on kirkwood with kernel 4.4

2016-02-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ectrons.com> Arnaud Ebalard <a...@natisbad.org> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com> Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: sheeveplug new u-boot

2016-01-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
lications I’m overlooking? Sorry for the delay. There was something I had to double check. Anyway, I found it now: change "ARM: sheevaplug: change env location". Fortunately, that change was right before 2014.10 (which we have in jessie). So upgrading from 2014.10 to 2016.01 or later wouldn't be an issue. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: sheeveplug new u-boot - just to make sure I've got it right...

2016-01-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
dd a comment to /usr/share/doc/u-boot-tools/examples/sheevaplug.config about it. > Does this also apply (verbatim, or with some changes) to other armel > (and armhf?) devices? E.g. the OpenRD and mx6cuboxi devices? I don't know because every device is different, but I suspect it's fairly rare. Fort

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
MB flash partition. flascp file /dev/mtd2 works fine. I've now bisected it down to this change: commit 0461a4149836c792d186027c8c859637a4cfb11a Author: Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> Date: Tue Dec 9 21:38:05 2014 + spi: Pump transfers inside calling context for spi_sync() -

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2016-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
us 123 SControl F300) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata1: hard resetting link -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: orion5x housekeeping

2016-01-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Plug as well as Debian unstable and u-boot from experimental. He's now testing Debian jessie and stretch on OpenRD, and possibly other things I forgot. Thanks! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: u-boot images for OpenRD

2016-01-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
/03/msg00032.html -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: orion5x housekeeping

2016-01-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
e dmesg. Maybe someone can help. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: sheeveplug new u-boot

2016-01-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
u-boot binaries are bigger than 0x7. That sounds right. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Apparmor on SheevaPlug

2016-01-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
again yourself. Here's a description of the boot process, btw: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/boot/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: XZ compression for the initramfs

2016-01-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the "auto" option Ben mentioned, this would be a good addition for initramfs-tools/NEWS (unless it defaults to gzip if RAM is smaller than X MB.) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Apparmor on SheevaPlug

2016-01-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
110' saveenv If you looks different, please post the output of "printenv" (not "printenv bootcmd", just "printenv") here. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: XZ compression for the initramfs

2016-01-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
root@debian:~# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-rc6-orion5x -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2734748 Jan 3 10:58 /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-rc6-orion5x root@debian:~# -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: orion5x housekeeping

2016-01-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
no installer but things should mostly work) and the Linkstation should probably be red (no active maintainer, no idea if it works). [I see that Karsten's Allwinder page lists various devices and links to installation reports] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: orion5x housekeeping

2016-01-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
X" to "tier Y"). Martin, wishful thinking in the new year :) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: XZ compression for the initramfs

2016-01-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
nding on the kernel config, and make that the default. > > ... seems like a useful and sensible thing to be doing in any case, so > ack to that idea. Agreed. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

XZ compression for the initramfs

2015-12-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
e with the TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: orion5x housekeeping

2015-12-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the mv2120, you could just swap the drives if you have a spare SATA drive and then put the original system back. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: orion5x housekeeping

2015-12-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
t of LS-WTGL, the only orion5x box I have on hand." https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/10/msg00219.html Ben Hutchings changed the kernel size on orion5x from ~1.5 to ~2 MB recently and I doubt this will change since it's considerable trouble fitting it in ~1.5 MB. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

orion5x housekeeping

2015-12-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
changes. There's a problem with qcontrol but otherwise they work fine. I'm happy to take care of them for stretch. [and I should add 4) D-Link DNS-323: the Debian kernel team dropped support due to size limits and this is not coming back.] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Support for Annapurna Alpine

2015-11-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ate Personal Cloud (1 or 2 bay) or Seagate NAS (2 or 4 bay). They are based on a Marvell Armada 370 CPU and will be supported in Linux 4.4. I intend to add Debian support. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: SS4000E - moving OS to new disk

2015-11-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Ds?  > That doesn't sound likely, so... flash-kernel looks at /etc/fstab for the root device (usually an UUID these days) and writes it into the initramfs which is then written to flash. So yes, if the new partitions have the same UUID, it should boot - at least that's the theory. :) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
nswer any questions). > Also, is there a tutorial I could use to create my own archive of > the mirror, just in case it disappears?  I believe I have more than > enough available storage. archive.debian.org is an official Debian service and won't go away. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue

2015-11-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
und in modules.dep done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. ... [ and then the UUID is not found ] Any idea what these messages about modules.dep are about? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
chive.debian.org as the hostname and /debian as the directory. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: lacie network space v2: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-09-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I'd avoid it (IIRC the pins are > difficult to reach). I copied Simon Guinot who may know. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: qcontrol for QNAP TS-221 in Jessie

2015-08-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
as hell). Does qcontrol work at all? For example, does qcontrol buzzer short or qcontrol --direct buzzer short work? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Improving ARM64 support in Debian

2015-07-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
actual porting work might be necessary https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=port;users=debian-arm@lists.debian.org I hope this update is useful. -- Martin Michlmayr Linux for HP Helion, Hewlett-Packard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: LaCie NAS support in Debian

2015-07-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
? ie: with a bootloader able to pick a DTB somewhere ? Sure, if the DTB is passed to the kernel, we don't need to append it. If there are multiple u-boot versions (one that passes the DTB and one that does not), it's probably safer to append it just in case. -- Martin Michlmayr http

Re: LaCie NAS support in Debian

2015-07-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2015-06-14 18:52]: Actually, now that I think about it, these two issues are completely separate (one related to uImage and one to uInitrd). So imho we should definitely append the DTB in jessie for the devices that need it (I already made the change

Re: RAID installation (Kirkwood) QNAP TS-420U

2015-06-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
(not the list). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150630194550.gd18...@jirafa.cyrius.com

D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch

2015-06-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Support for the D-Link DNS-323 and Conceptronic CH3SNAS has been removed in Debian stretch. The kernel is now too large to fit into the flash on these devices. The devices are supported in jessie, so there are still several years of support ahead. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

IXP4xx support dropped in Debian stretch

2015-06-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
security runs out people can retire their slugs :-) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150615204418.ga23

Allwinner update needed for installation-guide

2015-06-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
hardware, but this is not supported by the U-Boot version in debian; 8. Is this still true in stretch? Karsten, can you update the manual? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: LaCie NAS support in Debian

2015-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
$FILE else exit_unknown fi (i.e. do by DHCP and fall back to 192.168.1.100 if DHCP doesn't work. Not sure if there's a better default address for LaCie devices.) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
. Thanks, I made that change. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150608135546.ga17...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
messages in the log: Abort the installation If you have not finished the install, your system may be left in an unusable state. Are you sure you want to exit now? The system is going down NOW! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ian Campbell i...@debian.org [2015-06-07 13:55]: testvar=$(teststring) It looks like the interpolation is not working. I think u-boot only expands ${teststring} not $(teststring), so the instructions have a typo. John, does it work with ${...}? -- Martin Michlmayr http

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
17:59:55 in-target: -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150602200631.gd27...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD Base computer?

2015-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the upgrade? Get u-boot from unstable, add the target (see the patch I quoted in my previous email which removed the ultimate target) and build. Make sure you have a backup of u-boot and know how to use OpenOCD. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: Which version of uboot to use when upgrading an old sheevaplug preparing to install Jessie/Wheezy

2015-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
It was surprisingly easy. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150602203629.ga4...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD Base computer?

2015-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
easier to stay with the original u-boot unless that has problems. Unfortunately, it seems there aren't many OpenRD users left. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Which version of uboot to use when upgrading an old sheevaplug preparing to install Jessie/Wheezy

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
write 0x080 0x0 ${filesize} -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150518032230.gc11...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
sources. What does /var/log/syslog say when this happens? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150517232447.gb9

Re: SheevaPlug and Debian jessie

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
we sould append the DTB in the kernel image of the installer on devices where where DTB is a requiement. I'll create a patch. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: 3.16 kernel features on QNAP TS-212p

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
on this CPU dmesg | grep cpufreq yields nothing. Is it a bug? Thanks for your help. Jan -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Which version of uboot to use when upgrading an old sheevaplug preparing to install Jessie/Wheezy

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2015-05-17 20:22]: Even better: nand erase 0x0 0x6 I meant: nand erase 0x0 0x7 nand write 0x080 0x0 ${filesize} -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
with the DTB tomorrow. Sorry for not fixing this earlier. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150517013718.ga5

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2015-05-16 21:37]: So the best solution now is to append the device tree blob (DTB) to the kernel in the installer. This way, the kernel will find the correct device tree and can boot (and everything else will work since flash-kernel already appends the DTB

SheevaPlug and Debian jessie

2015-04-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
solve the issue. I also prepared an installer kernel with appened DTB but that didn't boot either. Can someone with a SheevaPlug look into this? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: IXP4xx (armel) support in d-i for Jessie

2015-04-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
with removing that reference. Did you find any other mentions of IXP4xx in the installation guide? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: IXP4xx (armel) support in d-i for Jessie

2015-04-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
, but occasionally I hear from one.) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150407171307.ge15...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Installation of Debian on SheevaPlug

2015-01-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
files are generated after the step that hung in your installation. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Pogoplug with u-boot 2010.09 - Wheezy doesn't boot

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the PogoPlug in Debian, so it's likely you used these instructions: http://projects.doozan.com/debian/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: ARM on Debian's Hardware Wanted web page?

2014-10-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul Wise p...@debian.org [2014-10-18 15:58]: Debian's hardware wanted web page says that the ARM porters (Riku Voipio and Martin Michlmayr are named in comments) are looking for donations of ARM NAS systems. Is this hardware request still wanted? https://www.debian.org/misc

Re: (NSLU) Not enough space in MTD Ramdisk

2014-09-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* pepesz pep...@gmail.com [2014-09-30 13:34]: That helped, initrd is now 2260857 instead of 7844605. How can I see which modules comes into initrd. You could unpack it: cd /tmp/foo zcat /boot/initrd.img-... | cpio -i -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian on QNAP TS-112P?

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
that others can update them too? I don't have time to move them, but if someone wants to migrate the pages to the Debian wiki, I'd be happy to redirect my pages there. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Debian on QNAP TS-112P?

2014-08-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
TS-112P? If so, should I follow instructions from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-119/ ? Yes, it works fine. I just haven't had a chance to update the instructions yet. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian on QNAP HS-210

2014-07-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
/) might work. Would that be correct? Yes, someone successfully installed Debian on an HS-210. I just haven't updated the web site yet. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: iop32x images

2014-04-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/iop32x/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140430030156

Re: Proposed changes to installer for armhf

2014-04-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
need a subdirectory anyway; so maybe going with one generic kernel/ramdisk and then one with each supported device is a good approach. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Proposed changes to installer for armhf

2014-04-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the disadvantages, as long as the limitations are documented. I wasn't aware of that change to the manual. Thanks for doing this, Karsten! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian installer images for LS-XHL/LS-CHLv2

2014-04-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
. I think using DHCP + static fall-back for new devices is a good choice. You can achieve this by either a) adding a preseed file to the image or b) adding support to oldsys-preseed, i.e. simply telling oldsys-preseed to use DHCP + static fall-back. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: debian installer images for LS-XHL/LS-CHLv2

2014-04-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
a new .cfg file under armel/kirkwood for your device, which can then include a PRESEED directive. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: debian installer images for LS-XHL/LS-CHLv2

2014-04-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the device and use that for d-i (in retrospect, I wonder whether we should have simply used DHCP). inform the user that he can now login with SSH? Eg. the board has some LEDs available. See network-console/debian/network-console.postinst -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Unable to boot QNAP TS-119 since update on 12 Nov

2013-11-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=147t=30069 (Sorry, requires login... no idea why) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Unable to boot QNAP TS-119 since update on 12 Nov

2013-11-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
image from them. As I mentioned, this is currently not documented on my page and I'm travelling at the moment. I might be able to write some instructions next week but you could just go with option 1). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: Unable to boot QNAP TS-119 since update on 12 Nov

2013-11-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
just checked and there aren't. :( -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131115172439.ge3...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Debian arm on WD Sharespace

2013-11-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
installation image will pretty much work on any PC. Debian doesn't have support for the WD Sharespace. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-11-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
that you had opened one already, otherwise I would simply have added to yours. Can we hope for a solution to this soon? I don't know. I cannot fix it, so it depends on when the partman people will find time. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: Fwd: Do others see install failures on DNS-323 to ext2 FS from Debian 7.0 netboot.img?

2013-11-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the ext3 manually. Martin, wondering when 64 MB of RAM became low memory... -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the kernel on a specific partition. In that case, we can even include checks in d-i to ensure that /boot is on that partition. However, I don't think this is the right solution for the DreamPlug, as I consider it a hackable device. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
for your bug report, Paul. I investigated and put what I found into a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/729445 -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Kirkwood kernel installation

2013-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
-kernel is run after the installation and it will take the image from linux-image and prepare the image you require on your specific device. There's no way to avoid this -- linux-image cannot ship the kernel in all formats required by different devices. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Fwd: Do others see install failures on DNS-323 to ext2 FS from Debian 7.0 netboot.img?

2013-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
. But this is definitely another issue since ext2 should *not* be the default for the root partition (only for /boot). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Removing lvm and crypto from rootfs

2013-11-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
more than /etc/fstab that needs to be changed. Are you sure flash-kernel got called by update-initramfs (it should on wheezy). How did you configure u-boot? Maybe you're passing a root parameter via u-boot. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
of changing it but I'd like to hear from Loïc as he suggested the current behaviour. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131102112943.gd31...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
now, I think it would be good to at least add a simple message like Creating boot files on /dev/sdaX to make it cleaer what's going on. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
-kernel.QO3YSugq Why does it hardcode Boot-Device instead of just putting the files in the mounted /boot partition? (As you can tell, I don't know anything about the Dreamplug.) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stanley Pilton stanley.pil...@gmail.com [2013-10-29 10:56]: I should mention that the storage scheme I chose was use whole disk and use lvm, which resulted in a partition for /boot and a VG with an LV for / Is this expected to work? Yes. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
that automatically, can you check the syslog file in /var/log/installer? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131028165811

Re: Debian on QNAP 419P II

2013-10-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom bj...@wetterbom.se [2013-10-17 15:16]: How right you are. Well, Martin is a thorough guy, so I'm sure it's not there by accident, i.e. it's supported. Obviously not thorough enough. ;) I'll add it to the index and install pages. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Support QNAP TS-221

2013-10-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2013-09-26 10:50]: Hi i need a help to install debian on qnap ts221 when install try to write file on flash i get the error This is a known issue which will be fixed in the Debian 7.2 update, which should be released in the middle of October. Just

Re: Fwd: Do others see install failures on DNS-323 to ext2 FS from Debian 7.0 netboot.img?

2013-10-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tai Viinikka t...@eastpole.ca [2013-10-13 08:46]: Are we alone in seeing this? Should I file a bug or re-open an existing bug? No, you're not the only one. I received a number of similar bug reports recently. I'll try to investigate soon. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Support QNAP TS-221

2013-09-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
for more information: http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=147t=78916 -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130926095031

Re: Sheevaplug hangs after u-boot upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
to the old kernel in flash. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130921122506.gd8...@jirafa.cyrius.com

Re: Sheevaplug hangs after u-boot upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
environment will be destroyed. This would explain why the wrong kernel is being loaded. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Will it work for QNAP 420?

2013-08-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
, that's supported. 4) Will I manage all this without any experience with debian? :) I used gentoo for several years though. As long as you have experience with Linux, you should be fine. I wouldn't recommend it to people new to Linux, though. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Debian 7.1 on QNAP TS-412 mdadm always reassembles without drive in 4th bay

2013-08-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
folks). By the way, there's also a timing issue on TS-409 devices: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/47799 I'm not saying that these issues are the same, but it imho shows that there are timing issues with the Marvell SATA driver. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

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