Debian on Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr@geomaster.pt>]

Hi,

I found that it should be possible to install Debian on a Seagate
Personal Cloud and I would like to do it. That is great!

My model is SRN21C (Personal Cloud).

I've followed the available instructions on:
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Seagate/PersonalCloud

1) The tftp server is running and I'm able to get the files
2) I can access the U-Boot console with clunc and run the commands:

setenv serverip 192.168.1.192
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.103
tftpboot 0x2000000 uImage
tftpboot 0x5100000 uInitrd
tftpboot 0x5000000 armada-370-seagate-personal-cloud.dtb
setenv fdt_high 0xffffffff
setenv initrd_high 0xffffffff
bootm 0x2000000 0x5100000 0x5000000

But after the message:
Starting kernel ...
nothing more happens. I can't connect with ssh. I can't ping to the
machine. There is no network connection to the NAS.

NAS lights seems ok to me (they go from white to red and then white
again), but the NAS is not listen on the network after 'Sarting kernel...'

How can I check what is going wrong? Is there any log file where to look
for errors? Can I run netconsole or something similar to see what is
going on?

The bootm messages seems ok to me:

Marvell>> bootm 0x2000000 0x5100000 0x5000000
bootm 0x2000000 0x5100000 0x5000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02000000 ...
   Image Name:   Debian kernel
   Created:      2018-03-04  19:38:06 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    3709896 Bytes = 3.5 MiB
   Load Address: 02000040
   Entry Point:  02000040
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 05100000 ...
   Image Name:   debian-installer ramdisk
   Created:      2018-03-04  19:38:06 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    20539095 Bytes = 19.6 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 05000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x05000000
   XIP Kernel Image ... OK
OK
   Using Device Tree in place at 05000000, end 0500649a

Starting kernel ...

Any feedback is welcome.

Best regards,

Gustavo
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