Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 03:48 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> Control: reassign -1 flash-kernel
>>
>> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2014-03-03):
>> > On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 02:25 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > > I found these pages:
>> > >
>> > > http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/devices/dlink-dns325/
>> >
>> > Oh, that's exactly what Bastien linked to. Well anyway, I hope I
>> > extracted the most useful information below.
>>
>> Certainly, thanks!
>>
>> > > http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/devices/dlink-dns325/keeping-original-firmware/
>> > >
>> > > They say that these models use a Kirkwood SoC (so the kirkwood kernel
>> > > and installer flavours should be used) and that they are supported by
>> > > the standard kernel package in wheezy-backports but not wheezy.
>> > >
>> > > Given that the instructions include writing a custom kernel install
>> > > hook, I would assume that flash-kernel doesn't support these models and
>> > > therefore this bug should be reassigned to flash-kernel. But there may
>> > > be other changes needed elsewhere.
>>
>> Punting that to flash-kernel for the time being. Ian will likely know
>> what to do with it. ;)
>
> Please can someone with access to the system provide a flash-kernel
> stanza for the system. After installing the flash-kernel
> package /usr/share/doc/flash-kernel/README.gz will contain documentation
> for (most of) the possible stanza entries
> and /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db will have plenty of examples. For
> testing a stanza can be added to /etc/flash-kernel/db.
>
> From
> http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/devices/dlink-dns325/keeping-original-firmware/ it looks like you can boot from both NAND and the regular disk/MMC, I'd be inclined to go with installing to NAND by default, which would mean using the Mtd-Kernel/Initrd style of entries.
ok the existing mtd partition are too small :S See bellow. How can I
do ? I have more space but I need to change partition table and likely
change uboot...
I have used the following config:
Machine: D-Link DNS-320 NAS (Rev A1)
Kernel-Flavors: kirkwood
DTB-Id: kirkwood-dns320.dtb
DTB-Append: Yes
Mtd-Kernel: uImage
Mtd-Initrd: ramdisk
U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0xa00000
U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0xf00000
Required-Packages: u-boot-tools
Bootloader-Sets-Incorrect-Root: yes
the mdtdinfo is:
Count of MTD devices: 6
Present MTD devices: mtd0, mtd1, mtd2, mtd3, mtd4, mtd5
Sysfs interface supported: yes
mtd0
Name: u-boot
Type: nand
Eraseblock size: 131072 bytes, 128.0 KiB
Amount of eraseblocks: 8 (1048576 bytes, 1024.0 KiB)
Minimum input/output unit size: 2048 bytes
Sub-page size: 512 bytes
OOB size: 64 bytes
Character device major/minor: 90:0
Bad blocks are allowed: true
Device is writable: false
mtd1
Name: uImage
Type: nand
Eraseblock size: 131072 bytes, 128.0 KiB
Amount of eraseblocks: 40 (5242880 bytes, 5.0 MiB)
Minimum input/output unit size: 2048 bytes
Sub-page size: 512 bytes
OOB size: 64 bytes
Character device major/minor: 90:2
Bad blocks are allowed: true
Device is writable: true
mtd2
Name: ramdisk
Type: nand
Eraseblock size: 131072 bytes, 128.0 KiB
Amount of eraseblocks: 40 (5242880 bytes, 5.0 MiB)
Minimum input/output unit size: 2048 bytes
Sub-page size: 512 bytes
OOB size: 64 bytes
Character device major/minor: 90:4
Bad blocks are allowed: true
Device is writable: true
mtd3
Name: image
Type: nand
Eraseblock size: 131072 bytes, 128.0 KiB
Amount of eraseblocks: 816 (106954752 bytes, 102.0 MiB)
Minimum input/output unit size: 2048 bytes
Sub-page size: 512 bytes
OOB size: 64 bytes
Character device major/minor: 90:6
Bad blocks are allowed: true
Device is writable: true
mtd4
Name: mini firmware
Type: nand
Eraseblock size: 131072 bytes, 128.0 KiB
Amount of eraseblocks: 80 (10485760 bytes, 10.0 MiB)
Minimum input/output unit size: 2048 bytes
Sub-page size: 512 bytes
OOB size: 64 bytes
Character device major/minor: 90:8
Bad blocks are allowed: true
Device is writable: true
mtd5
Name: config
Type: nand
Eraseblock size: 131072 bytes, 128.0 KiB
Amount of eraseblocks: 40 (5242880 bytes, 5.0 MiB)
Minimum input/output unit size: 2048 bytes
Sub-page size: 512 bytes
OOB size: 64 bytes
Character device major/minor: 90:10
Bad blocks are allowed: true
Device is writable: true
And error message is:
dpkg-reconfigure $(dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-image-3 | cut -f1)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.14-1-kirkwood
Warning: root device does not exist
Unable to abort; system will probably be broken!
Installing kirkwood-dns320.dtb 3.14-1-kirkwood into /boot
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Installing kirkwood-dns320.dtb 3.14-1-kirkwood into /boot
flash-kernel: deferring update (trigger activated)
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-flash-kernel:
Installing kirkwood-dns320.dtb 3.14-1-kirkwood into /boot
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Installing kirkwood-dns320.dtb 3.14-1-kirkwood into /boot
flash-kernel: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for flash-kernel (3.19) ...
Installing kirkwood-dns320.dtb 3.14-1-kirkwood into /boot
flash-kernel: installing version 3.14-1-kirkwood
Not enough space in MTD ramdisk (need 8695959 but is actually 5242880).
dpkg: error processing package flash-kernel (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flash-kernel
root@nas:/etc# mtdin
> Ideally things would be setup to work without the need to enter all the
> u-boot runes referenced on those webpages.
>
> Ian.
>
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