First post here, sorry me if i say some dumb thing. I'm a rather log linux/debian user, but i've a little experience on ARM, mostly OpenWRT.
Someone gift me a ix4-200d. The machine was in decent shape, who land me say that was retired because ''does not work'' (generically).
After receiving id, and googling a bit, i've found a way to reset to default state and enable SSH.
Disks seems in decent shape, probably one is fault, but anyway the system (that reside in disk) works as expected. The system seems a debian 4, rather castrated (eg, there's dpkg, but /var/lib/dpg get removd).
After that, i've turned to a friend that work on embedded world, that find the serial. It took some month to do, and also i've other thing to do. Anyway, i'm here.
Two question:
1) having SSH and serial access to the box, there's something i can do before trying to install debian on it? Please, say me and i will provide that info...
2) it is not clear what i have to do; If i've understood well, i've:
a) get from that post the link to current kernel/initrd, put on a USB thumbdrive
b) via serial get into u-boot prompt, and boot (directly on usb thumbdrive, or via tftp) the kernel and initrd
I'm not clear:
c) if an upgrade of u-boot is mandatory or not
d) if a modification of uboot environment is mandatory, or not
e) if there's some rule to follow on partitioning (i'm used to MBR and UEFI)
Again, sorry. And thanks.
Someone gift me a ix4-200d. The machine was in decent shape, who land me say that was retired because ''does not work'' (generically).
After receiving id, and googling a bit, i've found a way to reset to default state and enable SSH.
Disks seems in decent shape, probably one is fault, but anyway the system (that reside in disk) works as expected. The system seems a debian 4, rather castrated (eg, there's dpkg, but /var/lib/dpg get removd).
After that, i've turned to a friend that work on embedded world, that find the serial. It took some month to do, and also i've other thing to do. Anyway, i'm here.
Two question:
1) having SSH and serial access to the box, there's something i can do before trying to install debian on it? Please, say me and i will provide that info...
2) it is not clear what i have to do; If i've understood well, i've:
a) get from that post the link to current kernel/initrd, put on a USB thumbdrive
b) via serial get into u-boot prompt, and boot (directly on usb thumbdrive, or via tftp) the kernel and initrd
I'm not clear:
c) if an upgrade of u-boot is mandatory or not
d) if a modification of uboot environment is mandatory, or not
e) if there's some rule to follow on partitioning (i'm used to MBR and UEFI)
Again, sorry. And thanks.