Re: How to add kernel boot command line args?

2017-02-10 Thread Eric Cooper
> then run flash-kernel and reboot. > > That won't work with the QNAP devices which don't use the u-boot > scripts. I suggest installing the u-boot-tools package and using fw_setenv to set the bootargs variable as appropriate. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

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

2015-11-09 Thread Eric Cooper
s well, and that clobbered the environment settings needed to boot. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

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

2015-11-08 Thread Eric Cooper
imilar process of updating a Seagate Dockstar from an old pre-DTB kernel to version 4.2.) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: pogoplug saga

2014-05-18 Thread Eric Cooper
I haven't used plug computers for a while, but when I did I found this site, and the related forums, very useful: http://projects.doozan.com/debian/ -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: d-i for wheezy on a Dreamplug, docs/recommended practice?

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Cooper
) like manner to start a kermit transfer or is it doing something clever? The Kirkwood SoC boots directly from the UART rather than flash if it sees the right magic pattern during startup. A good overview is here: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,7852,7852 -- Eric Cooper e c c

Re: Fighting UBIFS failure after power surge on SheevaPlug

2012-11-08 Thread Eric Cooper
if necessary) and then reboots. (I tried to get this minimal system to chain-load the main linux system using kexec, but never got it to work properly.) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB

2012-09-14 Thread Eric Cooper
-2012.03/bin/arm-none-eabi- -j 6 uImage etc. Hope this helps. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- 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/20120914111923

Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB

2012-09-13 Thread Eric Cooper
: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size:839360 Bytes = 819.69 kB = 0.80 MB -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Seagate GoFlex Satellite

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Cooper
it. I couldn't find out with a cursory search, but even opening up the case looks fairly painful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLwMg9puZvg -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: uboot-envtools parameter file for Marvel OpenRD ultimate

2012-08-12 Thread Eric Cooper
: * edb7312-nor:- * * 1 NOR Flash with 2 partitions, 1 NAND with one * edb7312-nor:256k(ARMboot)ro,-(root);edb7312-nand:-(home) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-07 Thread Eric Cooper
/download.asp?groupid=902sid=132lang=en/ I don't have any first-hand experience with it. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: howto remote unlock encrypted root fs

2012-06-15 Thread Eric Cooper
the authorized_keys file is in the right place on the guruplug (/etc/dropbear/, not /etc/ssh/)? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Marvell PXA168/128 meg/800x600 LCD

2012-06-12 Thread Eric Cooper
in a chroot on this device: http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=6411 I don't know if anyone has flashed Debian onto it natively. I think there are some nonfree drivers for the touchscreen, so you'd have to preserve the original kernel and its modules. -- Eric Cooper e c c

Re: CuBox hardware

2011-12-20 Thread Eric Cooper
most curious about is the HDMI output, which could make it a nice media player. It's hard enough to get that to work on mainstream boxes. Does anyone know how well the HDMI is supported by X11 and ALSA on this hardware? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: help needed testing kexec

2011-05-20 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:00:40PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: (The default configuration of kexec-tools, defined in /etc/default/kexec, uses kexec when you type reboot.) It's been pointed out to me that this default configuration uses /vmlinuz as the image to kexec, which might not exist on many

help needed testing kexec

2011-05-19 Thread Eric Cooper
is. Please let me know, or post to the list, whether it works OK (along with the type of system and kernel version you're running). Then you can either purge the kexec-tools package or edit its default file to disable this feature. Thanks for your time. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u

Re: Debian installer for BlackArmor 110

2011-05-03 Thread Eric Cooper
is not supported. But it should be possible to do this yourself if you add a serial port: http://crapnas.wikidot.com/ Here's someone who put Debian on a BlackArmor 220: http://www.noerenberg.de/hajo/pub/seagate-blackarmor-nas.txt Good luck. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: kexec on kirkwood kernels?

2011-03-06 Thread Eric Cooper
Did you get it to work?? Partly. I fixed one bug and can kexec some kernels, but not others. I posted the details here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-February/040999.html I haven't gotten any further. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH

2011-02-02 Thread Eric Cooper
includes only a subset of this code, and cannot do the recovery. So this is one of my motivations for trying out Linux as a boot loader. Sorry if I was unclear or misunderstood you. BTW, I've found and fixed the kexec() bug, so I should have more progress to report soon. -- Eric Cooper

Re: Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH

2011-02-01 Thread Eric Cooper
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:07:49PM +, Hector Oron wrote: 2011/1/31 Eric Cooper e...@cmu.edu: * The ubifs support is read-only, so u-boot can't repair a ubifs  partition after a power failure. That means I can't reliably keep my  kernel in a ubifs root partition, although I'd like

Re: Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH

2011-01-31 Thread Eric Cooper
timers, nothing. But that is exactly what kexec() does, apparently successfully on most platforms, just not (yet) on the kirkwood variant I'm using. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH

2011-01-31 Thread Eric Cooper
of these are non-problems in Linux. Anyway, I'm not out to convince anyone to defect from using u-boot -- I'm just experimenting with an alternative approach and I'll share what I learn. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ

Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH

2011-01-30 Thread Eric Cooper
. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- 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/20110130163917.GA2920@localhost

Re: Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH

2011-01-30 Thread Eric Cooper
working. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- 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/20110130175624.GB2920@localhost

kexec on kirkwood kernels?

2011-01-26 Thread Eric Cooper
output. I do have a JTAG setup, but so far I've only used it cookbook-fashion to re-flash the u-boot NAND partition. I'm hoping someone can help me avoid having to use gdb over JTAG to resolve this. Thanks. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm

Re: How to save the original zImage and ramdisk.gz of an Intel NAS SS4000-E.

2010-12-13 Thread Eric Cooper
routers (in the image_dump function): https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/scripts/flashing/jungo-image.py -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to save the original zImage and ramdisk.gz of an Intel NAS SS4000-E.

2010-12-12 Thread Eric Cooper
(BCFv14b710.zip from http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=16833 ) Does the bootloader have a flash_dump command? If so, you can use this to dump the contents in hex, and then convert that back to binary. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to install in a Seagate FreeAgent DockStar?

2010-08-28 Thread Eric Cooper
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 02:05:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Or does someone know, the pin layout of the 10pin JTAG connector? Yes, see this thread: http://www.plugapps.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18t=195 -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to install in a Seagate FreeAgent DockStar?

2010-08-28 Thread Eric Cooper
://skorfulose.de/2010/07/22/how-to-install-debian-on-seagate-dockstar/ (installing Debian lenny w/o a serial cable) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: NSLU2 USB Serial

2010-08-06 Thread Eric Cooper
Then do telinit q to make init notice it and start the getty process. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- 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