I've now got my plug running Lenny and using a 30GB external 2.5" SSD as the boot/main filesystem. It's pretty great. I followed Martin's excellent instructions at

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/unpack.html

to get Lenny up and running.  For the SSD I bought an OCZ SATA II 2.5" 30GB SSD and a Nextstar 2.5" case from Newegg for a total of about $150 and now have a completely solid state system.

So that apt-get install of the boinc components did in fact work (I've also built it from scratch). However, I want to run Rosetta not Seti so I'll see if I can get that built.

It might be moot because my 4 way Q8600 shows boinc benchmarks of
2082 floating point MIPS
6452 integer MIPS

and my plug shows

35 floating point MIPS
986 integer MIPS

Granted it's 1 cpu vs 4 but comparing 1-1 it's still about 15 times slower for floating point and (not bad) twice as slow for integer.

I'm going to try to get it up and running anyway

I've just gotten the serial console working and I see this on every powerup

NAND:512 MB

Checking for BootROM Routine Errors

No. of BootROM routine retries: 524288
NAND: Nand ECC error


Running diagnostics ...

It then runs DDR2 tests one of which runs for about 5 minutes before passing.

How can I shut that off?

I tried installing debian as per http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/unpack.html but upon booting it ran fsck which bus errored and now i can't boot.  i resetenv but now need to know what setenv parameters to set to stop it from trying to tftpboot from sheeva's internal servers and to stop trying to NFS root.  I just want it to boot from internal flash or whatever it was doing when I received it.

Can someone post a 'printenv' from the boot interface here from a non modified plug so I can figure out what I need to change?

Thanks

I've had mine on for over a week w/o failure or rebooting. room temperature and it's actually near one of the steam pipes in my NYC apt so it gets warm near there a few times a day.  it's running lighttpd and I'm ssh'd in but not much else.

nice.  Did you have to build BOINC from source or is there in fact an ARM version I just can't find? And you had to rebuild the kernel, is that right???

Thanks

No because the linux version is for x86, this thing has an ARM(like) cpu in it.  I'd need to build from source.

I'm wondering if anyone has ported BOINC to the plug yet? I have it running on several systems here all the time in the background and I think it would be in interesting exercise to port it to the plug.

Received mine today - I live in NYC