Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421
On 2014-02-12 11:57, iacchi wrote:
Gordan Bobic ha scritto:
Is there a better way? Is there an alternative
u-boot available for use on these, one that can
handle persistent variable saving?
Hi,
have you tried to read these pages?
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/
Yes I did, that is where I found a mention of this list
and the forum (I didn't get a reply on this uboot matter
on the forum).
As far as I can tell, the standard Debian install for
the QNAP NAS-es also runs from on-board NAND and thus
runs with the default u-boot parameters. What I need
help with is not the Debian part, it is the u-boot
part, specifically the fact that it has been crippled
to be unable to persistently store any environment
variables.
I was hoping that there might be someone here that
has figured out a way around this limitation, and
perhaps a link to an uncrippled u-boot image I
could flash onto mtdblock0 that would provide fully
functioning persistent u-boot environment storage
without upsetting anything else.
What I really want to do is be able to switch
(persistently) between booting the stock firmware
from NAND and a full fat Linux distro from SATA
by only changing the root= kernel boot parameter
(in u-boot bootargs), and use the stock kernel
for both.
Gordan
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