On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:25:50AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Simon Guinot <simon@sequanux.org> [2012-04-26 16:09]: > > I understand that creating the netboot image is wrong because the > > network-console image already includes the same installer (plus the > > network console). Isn't it ? > > It's not wrong per so but I think it doesn't make sense to generate > the netboot image when the majority of users will use network-console. > Those with a serial console can always use the network-console image > and then perform the installation on serial rather than via SSH. > > > There is no recovery mode available on the Kirkwood LaCie devices. If > > the Debian system breaks, a recovery system must be loaded from the > > U-Boot console (serial or network). > > Is there a page describing how to use the u-boot console via the > network? There is some informations at http://lacie-nas.org/doku.php?id=uboot in the subsection "Connect to U-Boot via netconsole". It is quite thin but I will write a full documentation on how installing/rescuing Debian on a LaCie NAS. Else, there is http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.NetConsole;hb=HEAD Simon
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