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Re: [ts-7000] Nandctl (TS7550) chicken & egg situation?

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Nandctl (TS7550) chicken & egg situation?
From: Neil Stone <>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:23:33 +0100
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On 05/30/10 17:31, naturalwatt wrote:
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> 
> On the TS7550, you must use nandctl to rewrite the initrd back to Flash,
> if you have made a change to boot sequence.
> 
> The supplied linuxrc runs a shell and waits until that shell is closed
> before doing the full Debian boot.
> 
> If you replace the linuxrc with one that doesn't wait, ie you want a
> non-interactive boot, how can you ever get back and alter the linuxrc?
> 
> There is no nandctl in the Debian image and the one in the initrd is
> linked against uClibc, so it won't run in the Debian environment.
> 
> There is no compiled nandctl in ts-7500-linux/binaries/ts-utils and no
> source in ts-7500-linux/sources.
> 
> What's a boy to do?
> 
> This is a similar situation to getting to a single-user boot on a more
> traditional large Unix-type system. With the old RedBoot, there were
> ways to alter the boot sequence, but I can't see how to do that with the
> new Cavium systems.
> 


Simples, leave the USB drive detect feature in place, insert a script on
the drive that calls /bin/sh, if that usb stick is inserted at boot time
it'll fire up a sh session, you could then optionally telnet in on a
given ip (192.168.0.50 ?) and "fix stuff".

That's how I'd do it, but what do I know ?

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Neil Stone LPIC-1 NCLA DCTS


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