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Re: [ts-7000] Re: Have i borked my flash?

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Have i borked my flash?
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:48:00 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Razvan-Ionut Stoian wrote:

> Don't bother! The redboot version is probably too old.

Errr don't think so. My board is one of the original TS7200s, bought just
after they'd come on the market. I've not upgraded redboot, and it
it reads and loads a kernel from the CF just fine. It's the only way I
boot my ts7200.

> Make an image of the original TS7000 CF card you already have (dd if= of=
> .. yadda-yadda) and clone it onto your new  CF. I had to erase the
> original rootfs (on the new CF). All you need to do after that is to
> transplant a new rootfs (via debootstrap, for example)
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>  ...just my two cents !
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> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Jim Jackson <> wrote:
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> From: Jim Jackson <>
> Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Have i borked my flash?
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> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:27 PM
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>> RedBoot> load -r -b 0x00218000 -m disk hda1:/boot/vmlinux
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>> e2fs_open: e2fs_inode_lookup failed
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> I always boot from CF on my ts7200, but my kernel is always in the root
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>> I have a vmlinux on that path, with x permissions to all. My card
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>> --- In  .com, Morgan Gangwere <0.fractalus@ ...> wrote:
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>>> OK figured it out.
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>>> Turns out, the cheap 500 line webserver i had in C# wasnt cutting it.
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>>> I grabbed a cheap TFTP server and it worked like a charm.
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>>> ... now to figure out how to make it boot the ts11 zImage... i just get 
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>>> Morgan gangwere
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>>> "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M.,
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>>> Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in
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>>> the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor.
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>>> 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93.
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