**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Jan 06 02:59:57 2010
Jan 06 06:52:51 <GNUtoo|oeee> hi
Jan 06 06:53:01 <GNUtoo|oeee> Seagate FreeAgent DockStar  is based on sheevaplug right?
Jan 06 06:53:46 <GNUtoo|oeee> does it run some sort of GNU/Linux , if so where can I find the sources, and how can I get root access?
Jan 06 06:55:41 <GNUtoo|oeee> btw I bet there is not much choice for transforming a sheevaplug-like computer in a wifi router
Jan 06 06:56:07 <GNUtoo|oeee> there would be p54usb,libertas_tf,rt2500usb
Jan 06 06:56:40 <tlied2> I haven't tried it but my pegasus says it supports it too
Jan 06 07:04:59 <GNUtoo|oeee> by pegasus you mean the usb thing?
Jan 06 07:14:37 <tlied2> yeah, its a usb wifi chipset, was in a supercheap off-brand adapter I got
Jan 06 07:18:20 <tlied2> thats sorta the lame thing- basically nobody says what chip you are getting on the box of the thing :)
Jan 06 07:18:43 <tlied2> although this one did bother to mention it worked on linux, many don't do that either
Jan 06 07:18:53 <GNUtoo|oeee> ok
Jan 06 07:20:09 <GNUtoo|oeee> the idea would be to replace my x86 router with a sheevaplug
Jan 06 07:20:19 <GNUtoo|oeee> it would have many advantages such as:
Jan 06 07:20:24 <GNUtoo|oeee> *more reliable
Jan 06 07:20:32 <GNUtoo|oeee> *more recent
Jan 06 07:20:42 <GNUtoo|oeee> *better power consumation
Jan 06 07:20:47 <tlied2> yeah, I was using an athlon xp machine for it- I was after the power savings and compactness
Jan 06 07:20:48 <GNUtoo|oeee> *less noise
Jan 06 07:20:55 <GNUtoo|oeee> ok
Jan 06 07:21:16 <GNUtoo|oeee> mine is an old pentium III 500 with a b43 card for ap
Jan 06 07:30:12 <GNUtoo|oeee> mmm
Jan 06 07:30:38 <GNUtoo|oeee> I bet the dockstar comes without jtag+serial
Jan 06 07:30:46 <GNUtoo|oeee> not a good idea then
Jan 06 07:30:59 <GNUtoo|oeee> maybe I should use a stock sheevaplug then
Jan 06 07:35:23 <GNUtoo|oeee> I'll go bye
Jan 06 20:58:47 <eFfeM> yo, managed to get gfx on my openrd client board, kudo's to Tanmay for the support.
Jan 06 20:59:11 <eFfeM> I've also added the recipe to openembedded
Jan 06 21:00:48 <malachid> Did anyone ever figure out the correct solution to: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
Jan 06 21:02:59 <malachid> specifically this is on the sheevaplug from Global
Jan 06 21:04:11 <armin76> thats a pretty much generic error
Jan 06 21:06:17 <malachid> after flashing the plug, it will still boot from NFS correctly.  after resetting it to boot from the NAND, I get the "VFS: Mounted", "Freeing init memory", "unable to open an initial console" and then the kernel panic
Jan 06 21:06:24 <malachid> I have been trying to figure it out since last TUE
Jan 06 21:06:35 <malachid> work wants me to just junk the plug and move on
Jan 06 21:06:39 <malachid> but I really want to get it fixed
Jan 06 21:07:30 <eFfeM> malachid: it is quite clear that your rfs is nuked (or you gave a wrong parameter to the kernel when booting)
Jan 06 21:07:34 <ShadowJK> Does it have a root filesystem?
Jan 06 21:08:05 <malachid> using the one from the label on the back of the CD (openplug.org ... id=43)
Jan 06 21:08:20 <malachid> I am trying to use the setenvs from Rev 1.2
Jan 06 21:08:24 <eFfeM> i suggest to boot from nfs and see if you can mount the partition that contains the root filesystem
Jan 06 21:08:40 <eFfeM> have you tried to write the rfs again ? just in case it is damaged?
Jan 06 21:09:24 <malachid> I have reflashed everything repeatedly. Just finish doing full wipe and reinstall of the u-boot as well
Jan 06 21:09:27 <malachid> root filesystem is ubuntu-9.0.5.Release.jffs2
Jan 06 21:09:42 <malachid> I was able to mount it prior to resetting and changing the bootargs and bootcmd
Jan 06 21:10:13 <eFfeM> make sure you also reset the uboot env
Jan 06 21:10:31 <eFfeM> i seem to recall there is a command to do so, resetenv or so
Jan 06 21:10:37 <malachid> yeah, I am wondering if the specific params they gave are not accurate for that image
Jan 06 21:10:41 <malachid> but the image on the CD is broken
Jan 06 21:11:01 <malachid> I have been doing resetenv each time I start over
Jan 06 21:11:50 <eFfeM> try to mount the rfs while booted from nfs
Jan 06 21:11:51 <malachid> I wanted to try the new installer instead, but works wants it kept to officially supported from global
Jan 06 21:11:57 <eFfeM> and check if init is at the right location
Jan 06 21:12:05 <eFfeM> and perhaps try if it is executable
Jan 06 21:12:13 <malachid> I did: mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt1
Jan 06 21:12:27 <eFfeM> or if there is a /bin/sh boot with an extra kernel arg init=/dev/sh
Jan 06 21:12:51 <malachid> I tried init=/sbin/init; but I haven't tried sh
Jan 06 21:13:04 <malachid> when I tried /sbin/init it still said it couldn't find that
Jan 06 21:13:27 <ShadowJK> Does it mount a filesystem at all before that?
Jan 06 21:13:48 <malachid> VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem)
Jan 06 21:14:04 <ShadowJK> ah okay
Jan 06 21:14:25 <malachid> I feel like I must be missing something really stupid
Jan 06 21:14:29 <eFfeM> what size is your init ?
Jan 06 21:14:34 <malachid> but work isn't too happy with me having spent over a week on this
Jan 06 21:14:39 <malachid> what size is my init?
Jan 06 21:14:48 <eFfeM> ls -l /sbin/init
Jan 06 21:14:59 <eFfeM> you could also pastebin your bootlog
Jan 06 21:15:47 <malachid> the NFS server says: lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 500 14 2010-01-05 12:18 init -> ../bin/busybox
Jan 06 21:16:35 <eFfeM> and ../bin/busybox is there ?
Jan 06 21:16:35 <malachid> pastebin? I am running chatzilla. how do I do that?
Jan 06 21:16:42 <eFfeM> www.pastebin.ca
Jan 06 21:17:02 <malachid> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 827212 2008-02-26 09:26 busybox
Jan 06 21:17:18 <eFfeM> just copy and paste your bootlog there and report the url here
Jan 06 21:17:51 <malachid> http://www.pastebin.ca/1740664
Jan 06 21:21:38 <eFfeM> grabbed my sheeva
Jan 06 21:22:41 <malachid> I really appreciate the help. This has been driving me nuts ;)
Jan 06 21:23:16 <eFfeM> you can mount mtdblock0 from nfs
Jan 06 21:23:18 <eFfeM> ?
Jan 06 21:23:32 <malachid> umm...
Jan 06 21:23:35 <malachid> I don't know
Jan 06 21:23:43 <eFfeM> sorry meant mtdblock2
Jan 06 21:23:47 <malachid> yes
Jan 06 21:24:23 <malachid> mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt1 worked
Jan 06 21:25:17 <eFfeM> hm, mine boots from hard disk, need to check if I can get it to boot from nand again
Jan 06 21:26:25 <eFfeM> meanwhile can you also pastebin your u-boot environment
Jan 06 21:26:54 <malachid> what exactly are you wanting?  it's from the CD
Jan 06 21:27:17 <eFfeM> i've no idea what is on the cd, haven't seen it last half year
Jan 06 21:27:23 <malachid> gotcha
Jan 06 21:27:26 <malachid> let me see what I can find
Jan 06 21:27:47 <eFfeM> boot and hit space then type printenv
Jan 06 21:27:52 <eFfeM> in u-boot
Jan 06 21:27:58 <malachid> kk
Jan 06 21:29:12 <malachid> http://pastebin.ca/1740678
Jan 06 21:30:30 <eFfeM> hm, i have this as bootargs:
Jan 06 21:30:31 <eFfeM> console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=orion_nand:0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs) ubi.mtd=1 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs
Jan 06 21:30:50 <eFfeM> and with it it boots ubunut 9.04 from nand
Jan 06 21:30:55 <malachid> looks like you aren't using the jffs2 right?
Jan 06 21:31:06 <eFfeM> no this is ubifs
Jan 06 21:31:18 <malachid> yeah, so those args won't work with this root image
Jan 06 21:31:28 <malachid> I am really tempted to just upgrade to the new installer
Jan 06 21:31:33 <malachid> but work wants it to be "official"
Jan 06 21:31:53 <eFfeM> one other thing: your kernel supports jffs2?
Jan 06 21:32:05 <malachid> that's what it came with
Jan 06 21:32:05 <eFfeM> might also be that you need to pass rootfstype=jffs2 to the boot command line
Jan 06 21:32:22 <malachid> hmmm... but you'll notice it says it loaded the jffs2 root filesystem
Jan 06 21:32:54 <eFfeM> true
Jan 06 21:33:52 <eFfeM> you might also have a look at http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/SheevaPlug_Installer
Jan 06 21:34:03 <malachid> yeah, I was looking at that
Jan 06 21:34:15 <eFfeM> I looked at my hd and noticed that I have 0.6 on it (from may 2009) seem to recall I used that one to revive my plug
Jan 06 21:34:18 <malachid> but for OEM reasons, we are supposed to stick with the officially supported stuff
Jan 06 21:37:46 <eFfeM> i vaguely seem to recall that there were issues with the stuff on the CD
Jan 06 21:38:02 <malachid> I am thinking that either the filesystem is no good (not really all that likely) or that the bootargs/bootcmd are out of sync with the filesystem
Jan 06 21:38:09 <malachid> yeah, I had to download the filesystem
Jan 06 21:38:17 <malachid> the one on the CD is a bad bz2
Jan 06 21:38:47 <eFfeM> you might also look at this: http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=2
Jan 06 21:38:58 <eFfeM> if I recall marvell website also links to that place
Jan 06 21:39:59 <eFfeM> btw and as afar as "officially supported stuff" concerns: i'm not sure that there is official support for sheeva
Jan 06 21:40:06 <malachid> the filesystem I am using is http://www.openplug.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=startdown&id=43
Jan 06 21:41:21 <eFfeM> openplug.org and plugcomputer.org is the same site, look at the header
Jan 06 21:41:36 <malachid> yeah, I just meant that is the specific image I am using
Jan 06 21:47:14 <eFfeM> you might also want to look at this: http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=159.0
Jan 06 21:47:42 <eFfeM> he used v1.0 doc
Jan 06 21:48:04 <malachid> I saw that, but he had to use someone else's filesystem to get that to work too
Jan 06 21:48:23 <eFfeM> yeah but at least that gives you an working rfs
Jan 06 21:48:25 <malachid> I mean, if the manufacturer's filesystem is broken, I could probably convince work to let me swap it
Jan 06 21:48:30 <malachid> but... otherwise it is a hard sell
Jan 06 21:48:38 <eFfeM> and after that you can compare with the original one
Jan 06 21:48:53 <GNUtoo|oeee> hi, did someone already made an access point with a sheevaplug?
Jan 06 21:49:07 <eFfeM> alternative: find someone with a virgin sheeva and dd the image
Jan 06 21:49:13 <malachid> marvell just announced that the new one has wifi
Jan 06 21:49:21 <eFfeM> (mine is far from virgin, so can't really help you there)
Jan 06 21:49:27 <GNUtoo|oeee> I've the idea of replacing my pentium III router with one but I need access point with correct range
Jan 06 21:49:27 <GNUtoo|oeee> also I use ssh a lot
Jan 06 21:49:28 <malachid> actually, I do have a spare sheeva
Jan 06 21:49:29 <eFfeM> malachid: didn't know that
Jan 06 21:49:33 <GNUtoo|oeee> yes I heard
Jan 06 21:49:34 <eFfeM> thanks for the info
Jan 06 21:49:38 <GNUtoo|oeee> on linuxdevices.com
Jan 06 21:49:52 <eFfeM> GNUtoo|oeee: hi, you invariably show up in the same groups as I do
Jan 06 21:50:00 <eFfeM> you are not following me, are you ?
Jan 06 21:50:00 <malachid> hmm... how would I dd off of the device?
Jan 06 21:50:01 <GNUtoo|oeee> but will it use a libertas_thin-firmware>
Jan 06 21:50:07 <GNUtoo|oeee> no
Jan 06 21:50:20 <eFfeM> (even if you are not paranoid that does not mean they are not after you)
Jan 06 21:50:32 <GNUtoo|oeee> I heard the announce about the new sheevaplug
Jan 06 21:50:37 <GNUtoo|oeee> so I connected here
Jan 06 21:50:57 <eFfeM> yeah heard about that marvell chip, could not really get good info on it
Jan 06 21:51:05 <GNUtoo|oeee> eFfeM, indeed...some people are viewed as paranoid but all what they say are true
Jan 06 21:51:11 <GNUtoo|oeee> only that people can't belive it
Jan 06 21:51:15 <eFfeM> issue is that I do not know any wifi usb dongle that supports ap functionality
Jan 06 21:51:19 <eFfeM> GNUtoo|oeee: :-)
Jan 06 21:51:23 <GNUtoo|oeee> there are some
Jan 06 21:51:28 <GNUtoo|oeee> *rt2500usb
Jan 06 21:51:40 <GNUtoo|oeee> *marvel libertas_thin firmware
Jan 06 21:51:46 <GNUtoo|oeee> and there is a third one
Jan 06 21:51:54 <GNUtoo|oeee> p54usb/pci
Jan 06 21:52:11 <GNUtoo|oeee> but I wonder if p54 are still sold
Jan 06 21:52:17 <eFfeM> libertas dongles were not available when I checked and p54usb afaik is only client, not ap, not sure about rt2500
Jan 06 21:52:24 <GNUtoo|oeee> because I'd like to try it before buying the sheevaplug
Jan 06 21:52:29 <malachid> eFfem| how would I go about dd'ing the image off of the second sheeva to flash to the first
Jan 06 21:53:19 <GNUtoo|oeee> eFfeM, btw I'm not on all the channel you are...it's just that I'm conneted at a lots of channels....look for GNUtoo
Jan 06 21:53:31 <eFfeM> add a usb flash disk or sd card to the 2nd sheeva, boot from it, log in and do a dd if=/dev/mtd of=some fle on your disk
Jan 06 21:53:52 <eFfeM> then boot your bad sheeva from nfs, connect that disk and dd the file back
Jan 06 21:54:02 <GNUtoo|oeee> I had to llimit the number of channels...because freenode dosn't permit you to connect to as many channels you want at th same time
Jan 06 21:54:02 <eFfeM> dd if=yourfile of=/dev/mtd
Jan 06 21:54:16 <malachid> hmm... do I need the USB or can I boot the second from NFS to do the dd?
Jan 06 21:54:40 <malachid> the usb seems to be a bit problematic
Jan 06 21:55:02 <eFfeM> guess you can also boot from nfs, or mount an nfs partition after booting from flash
Jan 06 21:55:19 <eFfeM> why is usb a problem? just connect a usb flash disk
Jan 06 21:55:31 <malachid> half the time I connect the USB, it disconnects the jtag
Jan 06 21:55:40 <eFfeM> GNUtoo|oeee: you win wrt #channels
Jan 06 21:56:03 <eFfeM> malachid: hm, never had that, you could connect the usb disk before powering the sheeva (or maybe a hub will help)
Jan 06 21:56:51 <malachid> yeah, I did try before and during...  it sometimes works... powered hub probably would help but don't have one handy
Jan 06 21:57:04 <malachid> just kinda frustrated that following the instructions for a week and it still doesn't boot
Jan 06 21:57:13 <malachid> think I'll use the other one without flashing it and hope for the best
Jan 06 21:57:29 <malachid> only reason I flashed it in the first place is because apt-get install gdm totally hosed it
Jan 06 21:58:35 <malachid> thx for your help
Jan 06 21:58:49 <eFfeM> np
Jan 06 21:59:13 <eFfeM> wish you good luck with this, bedtime here (need to get up in time, 11pm here)
Jan 06 21:59:18 <eFfeM> cya
Jan 06 22:01:50 <malachid> oops heh
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