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Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?



On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 18:49 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 11:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > I do remember having problems with loose cables between the DP and the
> > UART/JTAG module early on, but a firm reseating helped there.
> 
> Well, what do you know... I thought I'd give this one last try, I took
> my bricked plug out of its case, to get better access, rammed the
> connectors home, then tried JTAG connection whilst pulling the cables in
> different directions and after about 10 tries got a U-Boot loaded into
> RAM :-) And I've successfully loaded and flashed the Debian U-Boot using
> the instructions that everyone says works.

Excellent, I always thought those bundle-o-wires things were a bit
dodgy looking...

> Now all I need to do is get my soldering iron out. The separate SD card
> board in the box had connectors which are glue in so I cut the cables,
> thinking it was only for the internal micro SD (which I don't need) and
> not realising it's needed for the external SD card as well. DOH!

Doh Indeed!

Ian.



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