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Feb 13 04:54:39 <timhildred> hi all. i've been searching for answers all over. i had my sheevaplug running fine, updated, fixed the little bugs just like the wiki recommended. once everything seemed to be in order, as root, i tryed to change the password by typing "passwd" as root. i entered my preferred new password twice, and now am unable to login as the plug doesnt recognize my new password or the old one as valid
Feb 13 04:55:38 <timhildred> can anyone point me in the direction of a way to either reset the sheevaplug entirely or somehow change the root password with physical access?
Feb 13 04:56:35 <timhildred> please?
Feb 13 04:57:00 <Tootoot222> timhildred: you can get the rootfs.tar.gz tarball from the sheevaplug installer and put it on a USB drive
Feb 13 04:57:11 <Tootoot222> change your uboot vars temporarilly to boot from USB
Feb 13 04:57:23 <Tootoot222> once logged into the usb you can mount the NAND
Feb 13 04:57:46 <Tootoot222> set your password on the USB, and copy it out of /etc/shadow and into the root's password slot on the NAND's /etc/shadow
Feb 13 04:58:38 <timhildred> thanks Tootoot222; where do i get the rootfs.tar.gz?
Feb 13 04:59:11 <Tootoot222> http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=5
Feb 13 04:59:35 <Tootoot222> just find yourself a SD card formatted as ext2/3/4, or a USB drive with the same
Feb 13 05:00:20 <Tootoot222> extract the sheevaplug_installer_v1.0/installer/rootfs.tar.gz onto the drive as root (sudo tar -xzf rootfs.tar.gz -C /media/usb/)
Feb 13 05:00:33 <timhildred> ok
Feb 13 05:01:02 <timhildred> then connect over the serial and in the marvell boot setup interface i change to boot variables
Feb 13 05:01:09 <Tootoot222> yes
Feb 13 05:01:09 <timhildred> ?
Feb 13 05:01:17 <Tootoot222> find in the var bootcmd
Feb 13 05:01:20 <Tootoot222> it should be something like
Feb 13 05:01:28 <Tootoot222> root=/dev/mmcblk0p1
Feb 13 05:01:30 <Tootoot222> or something
Feb 13 05:01:35 <Tootoot222> (basically just the root=blah)
Feb 13 05:01:42 <Tootoot222> change it to root=/dev/sda1
Feb 13 05:01:57 <Tootoot222> (assuming your usb drive is partition 1 with the ext2/3/4 partition)
Feb 13 05:02:09 <Tootoot222> (it should always be sda* though)
Feb 13 05:02:12 <timhildred> ok
Feb 13 05:02:36 <timhildred> once i boot off the usb, it will still be the ubuntu 9.04 special version
Feb 13 05:02:37 <timhildred> ?
Feb 13 05:02:52 <Tootoot222> yes that rootfs is ubuntu 9.04
Feb 13 05:03:11 <Tootoot222> it's similar to the one found by default on the plugs, but it has all the little quarks fixed
Feb 13 05:03:26 <Tootoot222> (or maybe it's a new install, i'm unsure; it does work well though)
Feb 13 05:03:54 <Tootoot222> btw when you change the uboot varible you don't have to saveenv
Feb 13 05:03:59 <Tootoot222> just run: boot
Feb 13 05:04:10 <Tootoot222> and it will use the varibles you've set, but only for that boot
Feb 13 05:04:17 <Tootoot222> after that it will use the ones you had before
Feb 13 05:31:42 <timhildred> cool, thanks Tootoot222
Feb 13 05:31:53 <Tootoot222> timhildred: got it working?
Feb 13 05:31:53 <timhildred> sorry i dissappeared for a bit, i had to go be hassled by my wife
Feb 13 05:31:58 <Tootoot222> that's fine
Feb 13 05:35:47 <timhildred> sometimes
Feb 13 05:37:03 <Tootoot222> lol
Feb 13 05:37:26 <Tootoot222> depends on what kind of "hassling" she was doing to you for 30 minutes ;D
Feb 13 05:40:05 <timhildred> she is installing adobe cs5 and wanted to fight while the installer went
Feb 13 05:40:19 <timhildred> just to help pass the time
Feb 13 05:40:33 <Tootoot222> lol
Feb 13 05:59:13 <timhildred> i'll soon see if it works. i did setenv root=/dev/sda1
Feb 13 05:59:16 <timhildred> now its booting
Feb 13 05:59:27 <timhildred> i'll be able to tell if it worked if the password is nosoup4u
Feb 13 05:59:39 <timhildred> right Tootoot222?
Feb 13 05:59:55 <timhildred> are you stateside
Feb 13 05:59:55 <timhildred> ?
Feb 13 06:02:12 <timhildred> didn't work
Feb 13 06:04:21 <timhildred> do i have to do anything to ensure that the usb drive gets mounted in the marvell interface?
Feb 13 06:04:25 <timhildred> uboot i mean
Feb 13 06:06:49 <mdm2k> does the usb drive have an access light? did it get a lot of activity when you booted it, or just a blink or two?
Feb 13 06:07:06 <timhildred> its a stick
Feb 13 06:07:30 <mdm2k> some usb sticks have lights on them, but I guess yours does not then
Feb 13 06:08:05 <timhildred> and it looks like instead or setenv root=whatever it should have been setenv bootargs_root=/dev/sda1
Feb 13 06:08:15 <timhildred> rw
Feb 13 06:08:20 <mdm2k> yes
Feb 13 06:08:46 <mdm2k> or rather, setenv bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda1 I think
Feb 13 06:09:24 <mdm2k> you want the final kernel command line to contain root=/dev/sda1
Feb 13 06:11:00 <timhildred> we'll see soonenough
Feb 13 06:11:06 <timhildred> i did as you suggested mdm2k
Feb 13 06:11:39 <mdm2k> you can do printenv in uboot to see the vars you have now
Feb 13 06:12:00 <mdm2k> on my guruplug it'd be x_bootargs_root actually, not sure about the sheevaplug
Feb 13 06:15:12 <timhildred> the other thing is that the default bootargs_root is "/dev/sda1 rw"
Feb 13 06:15:25 <timhildred> do i oughtta set the "rw"?
Feb 13 06:15:53 <timhildred> when i tried before, i had the problem that in place of a space, it put an =
Feb 13 06:16:04 <mdm2k> I think rw is the default but it couldn't hurt
Feb 13 06:17:28 <timhildred> do i wanna do it with "" like setenv bootargs_root="/dev/sda1 rw"
Feb 13 06:18:23 <mdm2k> I think you don't need the "
Feb 13 06:18:34 <mdm2k> you say the default is already /dev/sda1 rw though?
Feb 13 06:19:34 <timhildred> no, the default was /dev/nfs rw
Feb 13 06:19:59 <timhildred> and changing it to setenv bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda1 doesn't seem to work
Feb 13 06:20:05 <mdm2k> did you have it booting from an nfs root file system?
Feb 13 06:21:00 <timhildred> thats how it came
Feb 13 06:21:02 <timhildred> i guess
Feb 13 06:21:13 <mdm2k> hmm, I don't think it's using that variable then
Feb 13 06:21:25 <timhildred> thats what i get when i do a printenv on the uboot screen having changed nothign
Feb 13 06:21:34 <mdm2k> do a printenv in uboot, any other vars matching *bootargs* ?
Feb 13 06:28:57 <timhildred> embarassing, but how do you copy out of a putty window in linux?
Feb 13 06:29:26 <mdm2k> there are two ways to copy text
Feb 13 06:29:41 <mdm2k> first you can just highlight it with the mouse, and then paste with middle mouse button
Feb 13 06:29:53 <mdm2k> try that first
Feb 13 06:31:44 <timhildred> how do i copy from putty to xchat? i can paste it back into the putty window
Feb 13 06:39:05 <mdm2k> you might need to use ctrl+c or shift+ctrl+c to copy then, and ctrl+v or shift+ctrl+v to paste (depends on the app what it uses for the other kind of clipboard)
Feb 13 06:43:37 <timhildred> so now, how to mount nand?
Feb 13 06:43:49 <mdm2k> ah, you got it?
Feb 13 06:44:23 <timhildred> looks like, it booted using usb (i went to the uboot quick reference on the wiki, and changed the command there a little, and that seems to have gotten me in_
Feb 13 06:44:27 <timhildred> looks like, it booted using usb (i went to the uboot quick reference on the wiki, and changed the command there a little, and that seems to have gotten me in)
Feb 13 06:44:47 <timhildred> now i gotta set the password here
Feb 13 06:45:01 <timhildred> and then somehow make that be the password for the regular install
Feb 13 06:51:38 <timhildred> Tootoot222, how do i mount the NAND now that i've booted off usb?
Feb 13 06:52:47 <mdm2k> I've never actually mounted the nand when booted from something else; I'm not sure how to mount it myself
Feb 13 06:53:14 <timhildred> shoot
Feb 13 06:53:46 <mdm2k> these sorts of flash file systems usually don't use a block device, because they need lower level access to the flash memory than the block device interface provides
Feb 13 06:54:26 <timhildred> as in, i'll need to installs mtd-utils?
Feb 13 06:54:49 <timhildred> can you think of an easier way to reset the root password on the sheevaplug?
Feb 13 06:55:50 <mdm2k> no you'll probably need to do something weird like mount ubi0:rootfs /mnt -t ubifs
Feb 13 06:56:17 <mdm2k> personally I like adding init=/bin/bash to the kernel command line and booting
Feb 13 06:56:33 <mdm2k> then mount read-write, reset the password, and exec /sbin/init
Feb 13 06:56:49 <mdm2k> this works on a desktop linux system also
Feb 13 06:57:13 <timhildred> will that work for one of the original sheevaplugs?
Feb 13 06:59:09 <mdm2k> I haven't tried it but I assume so
Feb 13 07:00:20 <timhildred> can you describe how to do what you're talking about? what is mount ubi?
Feb 13 07:00:48 <mdm2k> well now that you've booted off the usb stick you can log in as root, right?
Feb 13 07:00:52 <timhildred> right
Feb 13 07:01:02 <mdm2k> try running this command:
Feb 13 07:01:14 <mdm2k> mount ubi0:rootfs /mnt -t ubifs
Feb 13 07:12:28 <mdm2k> does it give any error messages?
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