[Solved] Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

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Re: Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby WarheadsSE » Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:46 pm

Mounting the disk from another system, and doing operations on the root file system from there, which you have to do a number of file setups, and symlinking by hand and carefully.
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Re: Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby Socaltom » Sat Aug 30, 2014 2:02 pm

I had a similar experience last night. Once the arch install was complete, it came up on the router, I logged in and did pacman -Syu. and assorted other stuff. then I rebooted and got nothing. I pulled the drive over to my collection of pogoplugs and looked around. /boot on the 2nd partition had zImage in it. the first partition had uImage in it. I believe they need to be the same. So I reformated the #2 partition and reinstalled the rootfs. Then I edited fstab so that /dev/sda1 mounts as /boot.
Then it booted up just fine. I was able to do the pacman -Syu just fine after that.

Hope that helps.
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Re: Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby archon » Sat Aug 30, 2014 6:05 pm

@WarheadsSE
Beyond my ability then, I guess.

@Socaltom
Both partitions on my drive have uImage in the directories you mentioned, but they're of slightly different filesize. I'd love to know how you reinstalled the rootfs though.
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Re: Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby Socaltom » Sat Aug 30, 2014 6:18 pm

I put the drive on another linux box
then I used mkfs.ext3 to format the partition in question /dev/sdX2
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX2')
then I mounted the new partition
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkdir /usb
mount /dev/sdX2 /usb
cd /usb')
then I used wget to download the current Kirkwoodroot fs
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz')

then I used tar to extract it
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tar -xzvf ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz')

then edit /usb/etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noatime 0 0

sync

then$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' cd /
umount /usb')

That replaces the rootfs and links the first partition.

Your description matches what I saw. I think it will boot if you reinstall the rootfs.
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Re: Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby pepedog » Sat Aug 30, 2014 6:37 pm

I don't think he needs to do this, possibly copy uImage from /boot on second partition to / of first partition
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Re: Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby archon » Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:38 pm

Just copying the file did the trick. Thanks a lot, guys.
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Re: [Solved] Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby pepedog » Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:45 pm

Before update next time mount, like this
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mount /dev/sda1 /boot')
Or add a line in fstab that does this
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Re: [Solved] Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby archon » Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:57 pm

I already updated then rebooted before I read your post, and it worked anyway, so I'd rather not mess with it for now. If I start having problems again, I will.
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Re: [Solved] Zyxel NSA325v2 unreachable on network

Postby Socaltom » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:02 pm

I thought I would add a little info in case someone has this problem and is looking to restore their rootfs. I accidentally corrupted my rootfs while doing some test ( dd will get you if you aren't paying attention). Anyhow, I struggled all morning trying to get it to boot after trying to restore the rootfs.

Finally, I discovered that the housing I was using to attach the drive to another system was doing some sort of translation of the drive. I eventually plugged the drive into another housing and discovered that where I had made a 25G partition, it reported a 200M partition. I re-partitioned everything and re-installed and it booted right up. Lesson learned.
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