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[ts-7000] Re: Brand new TS-7800 fails to boot

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Brand new TS-7800 fails to boot
From: "arm.user" <>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:49:12 -0000
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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