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[ts-7000] Re: Disk-on-chip recovery?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Disk-on-chip recovery?
From: "Anouk Ahamitet" <>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 13:29:11 -0000
--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> don't panic. you should be able to boot nfs and dd the 
> root fs to the mtd device.

Yes, I found the instructions for that, downloaded and installed a
linux server (Ubuntu 8.x), set up NFS, found and downloaded what I
thought was the boot image I needed (debian256-5-6-2005.tar.bz2 from
ftp.embeddedarm.com) and, after several hours, was able to boot from
NFS.  The boot reported many, many errors with ts-specific things, but
it mounted /dev/mtdblock/1 and allowed me to restore the backup of
libc that I'd saved and now the onboard flash boots again.

> It was reported that ts11-rt kernels were updated recently since 
> they did not work. What you report suggests they may have tried
> to fix a couple of bugs in ts11 as well.
> 
> This would be a bit unfortunate since this is something they were 
> quite adamant they would not do for precisely this reason.
> 
> Eddie from TS recently posted a reply that he was not able to 
> reproduce a bug I was seeing with find command with the supplied 
> kernel and root fs. This may explain why.
> 
> A kernel or fs update would be great but if they have updated ts11 >
on the quiet whilst keeping the same name that would be rather bad 
> practice.
> 
> I shall have to dig around in my box of TS kernels and look at file 
> sizes and run soem md5 checks

FWIW, our /working/ board is using a kernel that Eddie built us last
summer.  I believe that was to include some fixes for the TS-7KV
and/or to add the real-time clock support.  I'd put the same kernel on
the new board -- but -- we ordered the new board with the RTC *and*
RS-485 features, so I'm not positive the custom kernel will work
correctly in that configuration.  Too bad it isn't the same kernel for
all 7250s, regardless of included hardware options.  If it *is* I
apologize and remind the reader that I don't remember if we got a
custom build to fix a bug and/or add a feature.


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