Re: Debian on the linkstation pro/live
Ah i'm not sure but i know i can get my ls pro v2 to tftp boot if it thinks the kernel is bad. I know this from experience ^^ .
Also if any one has an ls pro v2 and something seems to make it slow down after more than a few hours (like for example time uptime
18:30:27 up 4 days, 23:21, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.18, 0.16
real 0m1.631s
user 0m0.270s
sys 0m1.360s
) -> where it should / does only less than real 0m0.6 or so....
When i go strace uptime i have to manually kill it .... vs on my desktop where i don't.....
this is using a 2.6.26 kernel -> perhaps my configuration is wrong...
2009/1/25 Tim Small
<tim@buttersideup.com>
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
It seems the way you'd install Debian would be to:
- update the firmware to 1.10
- run a script provided by Debian that removes the initrd= parameter
from the u-boot config, and then puts the debian-installer kernel
and ramdisk on disk.
- reboot, run the installer
Sounds good.
flash-kernel already has support for the LS (and I think it was tested
by you); we'd only need to add oldsys-preseed support.
Anything else I missed? It seems we're fairly close.
Not off the top of my head, but I'll see if I can think of anything else...
I think there has also been conflicting information whether the LS can
boot from TFTP or not. If it does, we could provide images via TFTP.
With recent firmwares on the v2 hardware, LS will only boot from TFTP if harddisk boot fails, or if instructed to do so via serial cable.
So one possibility is:
. Remove hard disk from machine
. netboot to flash a netconsole-capable uboot image - created by merging buffalo's uboot code with more recent netboot-capable uboot code (have tried this - works OK)
. Replace hard disk, then trigger tftp boot again via netconsole.
The other is to use a serial cable to trigger the boot. Both could be offered as install options, I suppose.
Cheers,
Tim.
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