Additional information:
The HP 5630/35, 5140/45 and the 5540/45 all share a common hardware base, and
all require the new Runnix
These were sold with either a windows variant or XPe, the x5 versions with a
Linux, and a variety of flash and memory sizes, and VIA Eden processors either
500 Mhz or 1 Gig
They all seem to have a model number of HSTNC-004-TC on the pull out tab
They could be retrofitted with at least 2 Gb flash and Ram, though for many
applications 512/512 seems to work OK. They all use the 44 pin horizontal plug
in flash board. Male pins on the MB.
More hardware information can be found here:
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t5540/index.shtml
So far so good. The new Runnix with AstLinux installs and works fine
Any of the HP thin clients are a low cost solution for those who don't want a
router built into one box.
Thanks to Lonnie for his great detective work, and the whole team for the
really great web interface.
This clears my deck of "problem children", except for a Wyse 9455XL using the
old EPIA MB, an ITX MB Their bios LIES, and seems unable to boot from a USB
ANYTHING. The 9455XL also has too small a flash ( 256 ) so isn't really worth
any time.
It also is at least 10 years old.
John Novack
Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
John and I discussed this off-list and John was kind enough to provide logs and
test an AstLinux SVN build image (containing RUNNIX with ACPI, APIC support
added to the kernel) and that fixed his issue with the HP 5630.
Basically, the HP 5630's BIOS requires ACPI support to properly route the IRQ's
(notably the internal flash controller), while AstLinux's kernel had ACPI
support for some time, RUNNIX did not until this recent change.
AstLinux 1.1.7 will contain this RUNNIX change when it is officially released
at a later time.
Thanks again to John for his testing.
Lonnie
On May 24, 2014, at 8:03 AM, John Novack wrote:
I found some additional information on the HP5630, which provides an answer to
why I am having difficulty.
It seems the 5630 has an unused SATA port(s) on the motherboard, even missing
any connector, but Linux sees the controller as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The IDE
flash is seen as /dev/sdc, and a successful write to /dev/sdc with dd can be
done.
I believe someone in the UK has added SATA connections to attach a HD or SSD,
which is how I discovered what I believe is the issue. Not something I want to
attempt!
Once an attempt to boot from the flash drive starts ( there appears to be no
option in the bios to specify where to boot other than USB,flash or network )
Runnix boots, and finds the AstLinux file, but somewhere in the boot process
gets lost and hangs. I assume it is looking for /dev/sda instead of continuing
to read from /dev/sdc
So, the question is, without a custom build, is there any modification that
could be done to overcome this?
Or should the 5630 just be considered not usable with AstLinux, and I can
reclaim the memory, flash and power supply and send the rest to recycle?
John Novack
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