marcogaio Wrote:
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> 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...
entire serial bootlog.
>
> 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
>
Correct.
> I'm not clear:
> c) if an upgrade of u-boot is mandatory or not
Not mandatory.
> d) if a modification of uboot environment is
> mandatory, or not
Yes. See previous posts in this thread.
> e) if there's some rule to follow on partitioning
> (i'm used to MBR and UEFI)
Follow the instruction and create th Debian 4.4 rootfs on a single ext3 partition on USB:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096
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> 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...
entire serial bootlog.
>
> 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
>
Correct.
> I'm not clear:
> c) if an upgrade of u-boot is mandatory or not
Not mandatory.
> d) if a modification of uboot environment is
> mandatory, or not
Yes. See previous posts in this thread.
> e) if there's some rule to follow on partitioning
> (i'm used to MBR and UEFI)
Follow the instruction and create th Debian 4.4 rootfs on a single ext3 partition on USB:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096