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Re: [ts-7000] netbsd in usb for ts-7200

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] netbsd in usb for ts-7200
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:34:22 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 27 Feb 2009,  wrote:

> I am currently working on a project using a TS-7200. However, the
> board seems to be already used by other team and had been added some
> functions to it using the ts-linux, so I am not using a brand new board.
>
> Thinking of reinstalling everything, but I can not wipe out the
> ts-linux inside the flash. I tried to use a usb flash disk and tried
> installed it using http://www.embeddedarm.com/~joff/ , so I could boot
> a netbsd from the usb directly from the board.
>
> what I did is
> load -v -r -b 0x00200000 -h (my ip address) -m http
> /~ruralteam/gzimg_TS7200_wd0_flash_0x60660000
>
> but it does not work (freeze for 8 hours, could not load on to the board)
>
> does anyone can give me any clue, whether I have done something wrong?
> is it because the gzimg file that I downloaded from the site is not
> working?

It initially sounded like you were "reinstalling everything". The TS7200 
comes with TSLinux installed not NetBSD. All the documents are on the TS 
website main pages. Booting Linux from USB can be problematic, because most 
kernels need to load various USB modules, which can only happen once the 
kernel has booted and has access a file system where it can find them - 
hence "initrd". But not sure there's a ready rolled initrd image.

Never tried NetBSD for the ts7200.

However the TS7200 has a CFDisk slot, and the installed RedBoot bootloader
can boot a kernel from a resident CFDisk. You could setup the TSLinux 
kernel and image on a CFDisk and configure redboot to boot from there.
Everything you need to know is in Product documents on the TS website.

> I am still thinking about using other operating system for my usb
> (such as DSL,puppy) and change the first boot directly to my usb. Is
> it possible, or I must use the given os-source from the embeddedarm
> site (which is Debian, or netbsd)?

Are there ARM versions of DSL and Puppy?

Jim


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