Further
I've mounted the NAND flash initrd partition /dev/mtdblock2 using SD boot,
manually setting linuxrc to fastboot; save; umount; reboot
No joy. Back to TS at this stage... ;-(
Roy.
--- In "arm.user" <> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Folks
>
> Thanks for your very prompt replies.
>
> I tried what you suggested.
>
> I successfully booted from SD card (JP1 in) and tried both createmtdboot and
> createmtdroot. Whilst createmtdboot and createmtdroot appear to work
> properly, when I reboot back to the NAND flash (exit, power off, SD card out,
> JP1 out, power up) I get the same hang issue.
>
> I note that an asterisk '*' is printed during TS-BOOTROM process. The TS-7800
> manual indicates that this is a"A bad block that was skipped over
> (non-catastrophic)".
>
> I've used several of these units without this issue.
>
> Roy
>
>
>
> --- In "Jaan" <jaan_r@> wrote:
> >
> > Does booting from an SD card look different?
> >
> > I guess you'll have to try to copy a new kernel and initrd to the onboard
> > flash from the SD card (command 'createmtdboot'). If that doesn't help, try
> > 'createmtdroot' to copy all SD card contents to onboard flash.
> >
> > I think that it has happened to me too, and I have got out of this
> > situation by using a 512 MB SD card as a backup booting possibility. Then I
> > used createmtdroot to recreate the flash file system, then everything
> > worked again.
> >
> > If you had important data on the onboard flash, you could try to mount
> > /dev/mtdblock3 in Busybox and copy some data to an SD card or a USB drive.
> >
> > The SD card images can be copied from
> > ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7800-linux/binaries/ts-images/
> > Then, on a Linux PC, dd if=(unpacked 512 MB SD image, dd file) of=(SD card
> > device like /dev/sdb)
> >
> > Hope some of this helps.
> >
> > Jaan
> >
>
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