Just clear my doubt for full boot of Debain linux from sd card part3 is only
through serial shell using ts-94441 can't be done through telnet.
--- In Petr Ledvina <> wrote:
>
> I have tsbootrom-update on USB flash. I use it to change new boards to sdboot.
> I use following files (on usb flash with fat32, the flash can contain
> another data):
> /tsinit:
> mount | grep /mnt/usb
> if [ $? = 0 ]; then
> # sdboot is already present, go to shell
> exec sh -i
> else
> echo Exit shell to update board to sdboot, reboot otherwise
> exec sh -i
> update
> reboot
> fi
>
> /bin/update:
> mac=`ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr | cut -d' ' -f11`
> echo $mac
> tsbootrom-update -s -m $mac
>
> /bin/tsbootrom-update: downloaded from embeddedarm ftp
>
> Then i copied bin,lib and usr from nand onboard flash to usb (some
> libraries and commands are missing with defalut boot. Clean solution
> would be to mount onboard flash, but I was too lazy. Copied
> directories have about 60M, symlinks were lost in copy. )
> I simply put 'exec sh -i' into tsinit on flash (so linuxrc mounted it
> for me), then mounted onboard flash and copied necesary data ..
>
> Then when usb flash is in lower USB port, first sdboot is installed
> and board rebooted, shell is entered on second boot (correct sdcard
> must be present)
>
> And .. be carefull with tsbootrom-update without -m <MAC> parameter;
> it sets ethernet MAC to all zeroes by default and ethernet stops
> working ..
>
> Maybe this can help you ...
>
>
> Petr
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:50, ts7300 <> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I am also stuck at same point when I am trying to install SDBOOT using
> > tsbootrom-update-s then it will show /bin/sh: tsbootrom-update not found.In
> > my case I am using telent on ts7400 board.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > --- In "Eddie Dawydiuk" <eddie@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> > I have a problem booting the default SD Linux in the TS-7400 board. I
> >> > bought a 512 MB SD card that contains three partitions, the first is
> >> > supposed to be the MBR, the second the initrd and the kernel image,
> >> > and the third the debian system.
> >>
> >> I believe the MBR is the first 512 bytes of the SD card, the first
> >> partition contains the kernel, the second partition contains the initial
> >> ramdisk, and the third partition is where the linux file system lives.
> >>
> >> > Using the FlashBOOT, it loads the SD
> >> > card debian without problems, I think because it just mounts the third
> >> > partiton of the SD. But when installing the SDBOOT using the
> >> > tsbootrom-update program in order to boot the SD directly, it fails
> >> > and hangs up, something like these messages:
> >> >
> >> >>> TS-SDBOOT - built Oct 17 2006
> >> >>> Copyright (c) 2006, Technologic Systems
> >> > .
> >> > .
> >> > .
> >> >>> Booting Linux ...
> >> >
> >> > It could be the way I installed the SDBOOT, because I did it like that:
> >> >
> >> > ./tsboottom-update -s
> >> >
> >> > it's the only option I found it would be suitable.
> >>
> >> By default the kernel and initial ramdisk is loaded from the onboard
> >> flash, the tsbootrom-update command you ran modifies the preboot in the
> >> e2 so the kernel and initial ramdisk is loaded from the SD card. We
> >> didn't intend people to do this on a TS-7400. The reason being the
> >> initial ramdisk on the SD card contains functionality for the TS-7300
> >> FPGA. If you would like to load the initial ramdisk and kernel from the
> >> SD card, then you would need to copy the initial ramdisk and kernel from
> >> the onboard flash to the SD card using the mtdcopy utility.
> >>
> >> > Now, I am looking for a way to build my own SD-card system. I found
> >> > something similar, but for CF. In that case I have to get the images
> >> > of the MBR, the kernel and the initrd, and the Debian System. The
> >> > problem is that I don't know what are the images for the TS-7400.
> >> > Could somebody help me?
> >>
> >> You can download the fastboot SD image here
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-linux-cd/binaries/ts-images/fastboot-7300-sdcard-7-6-2006.dd.bz2
> >>
> >> You can read the SD card filesystem from this image, you can read the
> >> MBR, initial ramdisk, and kernel from the onboard flash.
> >>
> >> //Eddie
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
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