I guess, that you'll need a serial console.
Without, you can only guess, where it stuck, like did it access the
disks and so...
If it gets that far, you probably could check the logs, as it might
logged something of interest.
coldtobi
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 16:08 +0200, Joost Yervante Damad
I have two WD MyBook World Edition II NAS drives (1 TB, 2-drive model) that I
have hacked into (mostly starting SSH and NOT starting Mionet) by putting the
drives into a Linux-i386 box, editing several files in /etc, and putting them
back.
Apparently, WD used to ship the WorldBook with GCC on
Jonsen, Dan wrote:
Do any of you know of a way to use an i386 Etch workstation to install a
binary ARM distribution onto an additional set of HDs?
I don't know about etch, but I use sid/lenny and debootstrap to create armel
images all the time. Use the --foreign parameter.
The tricky part
Dan:
This is very intersting!
I haven't done anything with any of those NASes yet. Do you know how the
boot process works on them, and how to modify it? We would like to know
how to replace WD's kernel in flash, for instance.
Generally you can debootstrap --foreign from i386, but in order to
-Original Message-
From: Bill Gatliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:05 PM
To: Jonsen, Dan
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: offline install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?
Jonsen, Dan wrote:
Do any of you know of a way to use an
Jonsen, Dan schrieb:
no way of storing NTFS ACLs (unless Samba is more sophisticated than I
think);
Yes, samba does understand ACLs, if the underlying filesystem does. I've
done this once on a Gentoo box: The only thing that had to be changed
there was a kernel option for ACL support in the
Thanks for that; since I'm an IT guy and haven't done any embedded work (gee,
am I on the wrong platform here? ;-) )
Certainly not! Once you're over to Debian, it's all pretty much the same from
an IT perspective regardless of the particulars of the platform.
And, I think that the more I
Kevin,
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:06 PM
To: Jonsen, Dan
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: offline install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?
Hi,
thanks for that description! We ought to
Hi,
Jonsen, Dan schrieb:
Now I understand from
Bill that this is an issue with this type of low-cost device in general...
Ah now I see.
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=65b1b98b:decc728b:491f46ad:3c042270
That's your / device
ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2
Jonsen, Dan wrote:
I guess that either (1) this is a highly customized Linux distro from WD, or
(2) the ARM architecture doesn't use GRUB, because I can't find a grub.conf
file.
Probably both are true.
b.g.
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