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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Booting from sd-card (ts-7500)
From: "David" <>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:10:50 -0000

You don't mention the TS-752. If you are using it, make sure to set it do that 
you are booting from the SD card and not from the Flash. Otherwise you'll need 
to pull DIO_07 (MODE1) down by some other means.


I spent several days thoroughly confused by the boot modes in the TS-7500. Sure 
the docs explain it all, but it was not obvious to me for a while. 

Perhaps the most confusing part is that booting from flash and from SD both 
look almost identical. The only difference is a small message saying the boot 
source.

When you boot from the SD, you initially boot into the initrd partition of the 
card which is (again) almost identical to the one in the Flash. However booting 
into the Flash initrd does not allow you (out of the box) to fall back to the 
SD Debian partition. Booting from the SD card will let you do that.

In the end it is possible to move from the flash to the SD debian partition, 
but a bit of work is required.

My suggestion is to spend some time looking at the different linuxrc scripts in 
the initrd partition to really understand what is going on at boot.

Hope this helps.

David




--- In  "jonatan_olofsson" <> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to get started developing on a ts-7500 i bought for a 
> hobby-project of mine. So, to fire it up, i downloaded the 
> 2gbsd-eclipse-latest.dd and transferred it to the mini-sd, seemingly without 
> problems, i.e i can see four partitions, and mount them on my linux-pc.
> 
> I then inserted the card into the onboard reader and booted into the flash, 
> from where i typed 'exit' to boot to the sd-card. Then, however, it just does 
> nothing for a while until the watchdog (i suppose) restarts the board into 
> the flash memory. 
> 
> In /dev on the ts, i can see there are four partitions on /dev/sda, but when 
> i try to mount them i get "mount: mounting /dev/sda4 on sd failed: No such 
> device or address "
> 
> Am i missing something here? What more do i need to do to boot linux?
> 
> Best regards,
> Jonatan Olofsson
>




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