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Re: [ts-7000] How to recover "vmlinux" image on flash

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] How to recover "vmlinux" image on flash
From: Curtis Monroe <>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:33:28 -0400
ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/

there is a netbsd-TS7200_INSTALL.bin file there. Don't know if that will help

-Curtis.


On September 21, 2005 07:13 pm, Sergio Paulo Sider wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  Tired of trying to make apt-get work fine on TS-7200, I had the very
>  bad idea of trying NetBSD on it.
>  I knew FreeBSD, so I did think it would be an easy try.
> 
>  I had to dig some information to make it work on the 16MB flash. I've
>  sent an email to  , but before I got a response, I
>  figured out how to find the netbsd kernel and it worked.
> 
>  Well, after fighting with pkg_add (there is no pre-compiled packages
>  for the version of the port - 3.0), but even the packages from the 1.6
>  version are not complete. There is not even "apache", so I was
>  figuring out how the NetBSD toaster did work...
>  Then, I tried pkgsrc tarball and tried to install programs the
>  "freebsd" way I knew. The packages actually won't compile because of
>  the lack of swap. If I used swap, there would be no space for the
>  tarball on my 512MB CF.
> 
>  The question is: how can I load & flash the "vmlinux" that came with
>  the board (and where to find it).
> 
>  No offense at all for the Technologic Systems, but the documentation
>  in general (mainly in Linux) sometimes reads "try it... if it work,
>  please let us know" :-)) The point is, you need time sometimes you
>  don't have to make things work.
> 
>  Thanks!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  On 9/21/05, Curtis Monroe <> wrote:
>  > you can stop the Redboot script before it launches linux and corrupts the
>  > serial speed.
>  >
>  > your baud rate will be 115200 in redboot. It only gets corrupt when you
switch
>  > to linux, because of the typo.
>  >
>  > Once you stop redboot you can fix your scripting typo.
>  >
>  > -Curtis.
>  >
>  > On September 20, 2005 09:45 pm, Yan Seiner wrote:
>  > > I've been booting my TS-7200 via NFS. Well, today I got a new NFS
>  > >  server, so I was changing everything around and reinstalling the
rootfs.
>  > >
>  > >  I went into the boot config script, and typed in the wrong baud
rate....
>  > >
>  > >  IIRC it's now console=ttyAM0,115000 instead of 115200. I don't have my
>  > >  rootfs set up quite right either, so the system won't boot off
nfsroot.
>  > >  But minicom is showing nothing but gibberish on the serial port.
>  > >
>  > >  Is there a quick way to fix this? Some magic wand waving that will set
>  > >  the baud rate on ttyAM0 to something sane?
>  > >
>  > >  TIA.....
>  > >
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