My two cents for further encouragement: I just successfully installed Arch on my TonidoPlug2 following the instructions in this thread and at http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/tonidoplug#qt-platform_tabs-ui-tabs2, using the cable and the pinouts described at http://www.tonido.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19064#p19064.
Just to consolidate the information into one place, here's the full process I did:
1. With an empty SATA HD in the drive bay and a USB serial cable connected, boot Tonido. (Strictly speaking, the HD doesn’t need to be empty, it just must not have a /boot/uImage file).
2. Verify that the serial connection works while booting, i.e. you see what is printed and are able to log in after the boot is done. I used PuTTY, with the USB serial connection as COM3 (115200 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, parity None, flow control None).
3. Prepare the HD and install the Arch Linux files on it as instructed here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/tonidoplug#qt-platform_tabs-ui-tabs2
4. Reboot with the serial console active the whole time. When you see the “NAND:” line, hit Ctrl-C. You should drop into a Marvell>> prompt. Type printenv, copy and paste its output for safe keeping somewhere. (help gives you a list of commands, help command for more info on a command).
5. Type the following commands into the command prompt:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')arvell>> setenv mainlineLinux yes
Marvell>> setenv arcNumber 4101
Marvell>> saveenv
TonidoPlug2
Re: TonidoPlug2
by jklaiho » Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:13 pm
(EDIT: When I originally wrote this guide, I was running a kernel that didn't contain specific TonidoPlug2 support. At that time, arcNumber used to be 2678. It changed to 4101 from kernel release 3.1.10-9 onwards.)
6. Finally, fingers crossed, write reset and press enter. It’s best to keep the serial connection active if any problems arise.
If you did everything correctly, you should boot into Arch from now on. Congratulations!
If there's something dangerously wrong there, do tell and I'll edit the post. Worked for me at least.
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Re: TonidoPlug2
by WarheadsSE » Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:19 pm
Now that we know this is all happy, we'll make it official. Thanks for testing for us 
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Re: TonidoPlug2
by kmihelich » Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:58 pm
Is there blparam or fw_setenv inside the stock installation to configure U-Boot?
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Re: TonidoPlug2
by jklaiho » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:03 pm
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kmihelich', 'I')s there blparam or fw_setenv inside the stock installation to configure U-Boot?
Nope, neither.
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