I got the chance to run a quick test last night so I loaded the installer and 
kernel onto a usb thumb drive ext2 partition, renamed them to uImage and 
uInitrd and booted with the existing doozan uboot and boot lines.  As seen in 
the pastebin boot log, it booted normally until it stuck waiting for a keyboard 
entry.  Since I was using a serial cable I was able to hit enter allowing the 
boot process to continue.  Obviously I would not have able to continue if I did 
not have the serial cable.
After logging in I check to see if the network interface was up and found that 
it was not.  I assumed then that ssh was not running.  After that I started the 
install process, using ftp install option.  I didn't have enough time to 
complete the install but I have no doubt that it would have worked.
So I would think the following three things need be addressed to allow the 
installer to work without the need for a serial cable:
1) Eliminate the need for a keyboard selection entry (may be a time out)
2) Start up dhcpd
3) Start up ssh

Regards
Rich Lapointe 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Winter <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:25:10 
To: Slackware ARM port<[email protected]>
Reply-To: Slackware ARM port  <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar


> Thanks! I confirm it also works for me.

 http://salix.pastebin.com/J22Zudvw

What boot line did you use?
It looks as if you didn't specify the keyboard type nor network settings.

ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/sheevaplug/quickboot.txt
You want the whole line that is underneath this:
"-current (automatically starting DHCP and SSHd)"

If you need to adjust the memory addresses then you'll need to do that of
course; but the main changes are:
nic=auto:eth0:dhcp kbd=uk

and set your keyboard to a valid keymap that the "loadkeys" command can
find.

-- 
Stuart Winter
Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org
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