Re: NSLU2 hang on "Setting system clock.."

[Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>]

Marc Singer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:33:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Marc Singer wrote:
>>> I've been looking for clues as to why one of my slugs would hang on
>>> calling hwclock --show.  The initial symptom is that it fails when it
>>> attempts to run the hwclock.sh script.
>> IIRC this can happen if your clock isn't running. nslu2s ship with a
>> hardware clock that's turned off, and it's started running once the
>> clock is set. Typically this happens if you use the web interface that
>> ships on the slug to set the clock. If you don't do so before installing
>> Debian, you might still not have a running clock.
>>
>> Try using hwclock to set the clock, and see if that clears up the
>> problem.
> 
> I tried that as well.  No dice.
> 
>   # hwclock --systohc
> 
> This causes the system to lock-up as well.

Have you tried installing the Linksys vendor firmware, booting, then
reinstalling the debian firmware?

You can backup the flash first with cat /dev/mtdblock* > backup.bin and
then reflash that with upslug2 (but I expect you know all that already).

-- Rod