Hello to all!
I have decided tonight, to make revive my old NSLU2. I need a low power syslog machine so, why not to use my "semper fidelis" Linksys NSLU2.
I have followed the Martin's historical guide at : https://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/unpack/ and my NSLU2 is fully working with debian 7.
Now it's time to make a release upgrade going to Debian 8 ( jessie ).
I have updated the repo file pointing to Debian 8 and : "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade"
After the system update i have rebooted my slug so i can boot using the latest jessie kernel 3.16 instead of 3.2 of wheezy, but the system doesn't ultimate the boot process.
I have a serial cable connected to my slug so the debug it's easy.... this is the full log of my system starting from dist upgrade to the reboot of the NSLU2.
The boot process stops at :
Booting kernel at 0x00008000...
This is the full output:
+Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:18:39:a5:70:0f
IP: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Default server: 0.0.0.0, DNS server IP: 0.0.0.0
RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]
Red Hat certified release, version 1.92 - built 15:16:07, Feb 3 2004
Platform: IXDP425 Development Platform (XScale)
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.
RAM: 0x00000000-0x02000000, 0x000723a0-0x01ff3000 available
FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x50800000, 64 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.
== Executing boot script in 2.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
RedBoot> boot;exec 0x01d00000
have eRcOmM
copy kernel code from flash to RAM
copy ramdisk file from flash to RAM
run kernel
Using base address 0x01d00000 and length 0x0000dc20
Ans
APEX Boot Loader 1.6.10 -- Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Marc Singer
compiled for Debian NSLU2 on 2009.Oct.06-18:59:32
APEX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It is free software and
you are welcome to redistribute it under certain circumstances.
For details, refer to the file COPYING in the program source.
apex => mem:0x00200000+0xdc10 (56336 bytes)
env => nor:0x7c000+15k (empty)
Use the command 'help help' to get started.
# sdram-init
1 bank of 2 128Mib chips
# memscan -u 0+256m
0x0 0x02000000 (32 MiB)
# copy -s $kernelsrc $bootaddr
# copy -s fis://kernel 0x00008000
1441760 bytes transferred
# copy -s $ramdisksrc $ramdiskaddr
# copy -s fis://ramdisk 0x01000000
6291440 bytes transferred
# wait 10 Type ^C key to cancel autoboot.
Type ^C key to cancel autoboot.
# boot
ARCH_ID: 597 (0x255)
ATAG_HEADER
ATAG_MEM: start 0x00000000 size 0x02000000
ATAG_CMDLINE: (32 bytes) 'console=ttyS0,115200 noirqdebug'
ATAG_INITRD2: start 0x01000000 size 0x005ffff0
ATAG_END
Booting kernel at 0x00008000...
Is it a know kernel bug ? or am i missing something before to do the dist upgrade?
Any support is very appreciated.
Thank you to all