Hi,
Anouk Ahamitet <> [20080828 19:21:29 -0000]:
>
> I made a horrible typo after I finished configuring the TS-7800 I have.
> I was finally ready to make it boot directly into the onboard flash and
> accidentally failed to type one little space when I entered this:
>
> ln -sf /linuxrc-mtdroot/linuxrc; save
>
> Now the thing just hangs at boot. Is there any possible way (other than
> obtaining a new chip) to interrupt the boot process before it hangs when
> it tries to use the 'missing link'?
>
> In fact, I'm confused as to why that would make it hang, since the
> original linuxrc file should still be there. The existence of the
> unnamed link killed it? Or maybe the save just didn't work?
>
> Whatever happened, I'm dead-in-the-water and (this time) have no one to
> blame but myself ... I hope. Can (and will) anyone offer assistance?
>
Erm...boot off SD card, mount the flash fs and reverse your 'optimisation' :)
http://www.digriz.org.uk/ts-7800
Of course you probably just want to use the regular TS image:
ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7800-linux/binaries/ts-images/
Hmmm, I see TS have updated it only today...
Cheers
Alex
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