Re: Debian on thecus N2100

[Federico Pietro Briata <federico@briata.org>]

hi Brian
pin3 from serial is ok?
on minicom you set option 115200 8N1 with no flow control?

2013/4/25 Brian Platt <brianplatt@hotmail.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:43:25 +0200

Subject: Re: Debian on thecus N2100

From: federico@briata.org
To: brianplatt@hotmail.com
CC: debian-arm@lists.debian.org

2013/4/11 Brian Platt <brianplatt@hotmail.com>

> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:20:18 +0400

> From: alexander.a.danilov@gmail.com
> To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian on thecus N2100

>
> On 10.04.2013 16:41, Brian Platt wrote:
> > I'm tring to install debian on the Thecus N2100 using the instructions from
> > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/iop/n2100/ however when formatting the partitions the bar goes up to
> > 33%
> Try another hdd model.

Tried that

maybe your RAM is damaged, try another one or to perform a memtest.

ciao
federico

Finally got serial to work (ish)

+RST=No
Transfer to factory test Mode : No                                            
Reset default set:Normal                                                      
Thecus: Found PCI device Vendor ID=0x0000FFFF                                 
Thecus: Found PCI device Vendor ID=0x000010EC                                 
Thecus: Found PCI device Vendor ID=0x0000FFFF                                 
Thecus: Found PCI device Vendor ID=0x0000FFFF                                 
No network interfaces found                                                   
                                                                              
RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]                             
Red Hat certified release, version 1.93 - built 17:25:00, Feb  6 2007         
                                                                              
Platform: THECUS N2100 (IOP80219)                                             
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.                                 
                                                                              
RAM: 0x00000000-0x20000000, 0x0004b890-0x1ffd1000 available, total: 512 MB    
FLASH: 0xf0000000 - 0xf1000000, 128 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.          
== Executing boot script in 3.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort

I would like to boot into redboot but when I do control c it' doesn't abort the boot?