* John Holland <[email protected]> [2009-07-29 12:18]: > 1) backup vital data in the current system.
Don't forget to make a backup of the flash. > 2) flash the mtd's as per Martins' site says here w/o any hds: > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/unpack.html > > 3) reboot the system > > 4) turn off the system and put in the two disks from the current hw > > 5) boot the system and upgrade debian > > I think I'm missing a step in the list -> tell debian where to boot: in > my case a md, more specifically a raid 1 configuration. One step you're missing is to install the kernel for the TS-219P. The TS-209 is based on the Orion plaform whereas the TS-219P uses the Kirkwood platform, so you'll need the Kirkwood kernel. So, install the following kernel package on the TS-209: wget http://people.debian.org/~tbm/orion/old/linux-image-2.6.29-2-kirkwood_2.6.29-5_armel.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.29-2-kirkwood_2.6.29-5_armel.deb It will first install the kernel, then generate the ramdisk and then print an error saying that this kernel doesn't match your sub-architecture (that's okay - just ignore the error). Then you can download mtd1.bz2/mtd2.bz2, unpack them and put them in flash on the TS-219P (after making backups of flash). Of course, the mtd2 file assumed that your root device is sda2. You could repack the initramfs (mtd2) and change the root device: bzip2 -d mtd2.bz2 mkdir i cd i zcat ../mtd2 | sudo cpio -i sudo perl -pi -e "s/sda2/md0/" conf/param.conf find . | sudo cpio --quiet -o -H newc > ../new-mtd2 cd .. gzip -9 new-mtd2 dd if=new-mtd2.gz of=new-mtd2 ibs=9437184 conv=sync When you write this to flash and then put the disk into the TS-219P, it should (hopefully) boot. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
