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16  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / Hardware / Re: New Sheevaplugs - less bogomips - timebase 10% too fast :-( on: July 08, 2010, 02:02:04 AM
2.6.29 is not a kernel Debian ships, so it's probably a vendor kernel.  Since they ship a kernel that doesn't work on their hardware, you should complain to them.

However, it would be nice if you could confirm that Debian's 2.6.32 kernel works.
17  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: June 19, 2010, 12:40:20 PM
Well, I don't have an eSATA plug so I cannot test why the NewIT uboot doesn't work with debian-installer, although I thought that this worked for other people.  I'll wait for someone with an eSATA plug to figure out what u-boot works and then I'm happy to update my page.  I'll then also fix the contradictions.
18  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: June 16, 2010, 02:07:14 AM
Quote from: hausschuh on June 15, 2010, 12:00:25 AM
I reinstalled everything using your updated tutorial. I still get the same error message. The Sheeva does like my hard disk. I tested the ESIA installer and it worked (out of the box). The big difference is using another (older) uboot version (uboot-sata-090903.bin from NewIT). But with this version your installer won't work (I've already tried that).
 

Yeah you'll definitely need an uboot with SATA support.  So you're saying that with uboot-sata-090903.bin the Debian installer doesn't work?  What's the problem exactly?
19  Linux Stuff / Linux distributions / Re: eSATA SheevaPlug supported by Debian now on: June 14, 2010, 05:32:42 AM
The eSATA Images are the daily images anyway, so yes, they work.
20  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: June 13, 2010, 06:27:59 AM
Quote from: hausschuh on June 09, 2010, 01:51:13 AM
SATA max UDMA/133
ata1: SATA Link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
2 SRST failed errorno = -16
limiting SATA link speed to 1.5GBps

Maybe it doesn't like your disk... I don't know.  Can you boot the whole log?
21  Linux Stuff / Linux distributions / Re: boot partiton on: June 13, 2010, 06:26:57 AM
You can install Debian to eSATA now and the problems with an USB disk should not apply when you boot via eSATA.

See http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html for the install guide.
22  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: June 13, 2010, 06:26:08 AM
Note: the instructions above are no longer needed since the kernel is in Debian squeeze now; see http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1915.0
23  Linux Stuff / Linux distributions / eSATA SheevaPlug supported by Debian now on: June 13, 2010, 06:25:10 AM
The eSATA SheevaPlug is supported by the Debian installer and by Debian now.  See http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html for the install guide.

If you're already running Debian on your eSATA SheevaPlug but you installed as a regular SheevaPlug to USB or SD and you'd like to use the eSATA, then make sure you're the latest kernel from Debian squeeze (apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade; flash-kernel), reboot and type this in u-boot:

setenv arcNumber 2678
saveenv
reset

Your machine will then be recognized as an eSATA SheevaPlug
24  Linux Stuff / General Linux questions / Re: Which Debian distro: Lenny or squeeze? on: June 13, 2010, 06:22:33 AM
Quote from: tbm on May 12, 2010, 01:19:31 PM
Well, the docs give the command to create an ext2 fs.  If you change the docs, there's no guarantee that it will still work.

But yes, good point.  When/if I update the tar ball the next time, I'll make sure ext3 works too.


FYI: I've updated the tar ball now and both ext2 and ext3 should work.
25  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: May 25, 2010, 12:08:22 PM
unstable is Debian's development tree.

However, this kernel is stable.  No harm in installing it.
26  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: May 25, 2010, 12:07:48 PM
BTW, my instructions were incomplete.  Before running the commands above, do this:

Code:
wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-base_2.6.32-13_all.deb
dpkg -i linux-base_2.6.32-13_all.deb

This will show an error because of missing dependencies.  Fix this with:

Code:
apt-get -f install
27  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: Sheeva with Debian - replace temporarily USB with eSATA? on: May 25, 2010, 03:12:05 AM
I believe that would work.

But since you're in a hurry, you can simply install the kernel package from unstable directly:

Code:
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood_2.6.32-13_armel.deb
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood_2.6.32-13_armel.deb
flash-kernel

When you reboot, enter u-boot and issue the following commands:

Code:
setenv mainlineLinux yes
setenv arcNumber 2678
saveenv
reset

And now eSATA should hopefully work.
28  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / Hardware / Re: Patriot SDHC LX 8Gb 10 class on: May 21, 2010, 12:51:21 AM
Did you try to run mmcinit twice?
29  Hardware and U-Boot firmware / U-Boot stuff / Re: new uboot version 3.4.25 on: May 19, 2010, 02:56:34 AM
rooster, any comments on this at all?
30  Linux Stuff / General Linux questions / Re: Which Debian distro: Lenny or squeeze? on: May 13, 2010, 01:25:11 AM
I don't know since I don't have a GuruPlug.  Maybe someone else can report or you can try it and report back.
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