Cant get installation to work (Zyxel 325v2)

[Jakodns]

This is pissing me off/making me annoyed.

I plugged everything in, made everything work. Shut it down and moved it to the correct location. Still everything worked. I now was doing some stuff in it (working with plex) and decided to reboot it, after reboot command was executed it can't be reached via SSH anymore, not gonna do anything until i have some help here

[pepedog]

Did you try this?
viewtopic.php?f=58&t=8189#p44045

[Socaltom]

Ahh yes,
You need to copy the uImage from /boot to /dev/sda1


You need to add this to your fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noatime 0 0

What happens is if your run pacman -Syu, it upgrades the uImage on /boot. If it doesn't match the one on / dev/sda1 it won't boot.
Tom

[Jakodns]

Just logged in (blindly) and then shut it down, now waiting to see if it comes up? Didn't come up



Socialtom, Could you help me more specificly with what commands? Since normaly I hanker my way forward via looking at the errors/reading the manual

[Socaltom]

so you will need to put the hard drive into a different linux machine.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'lsblk') to determine what the system labeled the drive ( likely /dev/sdb)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkdir /part1')
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mount /dev/sdb1 /part1') ( replace sdb1 with what the first partition for the drive is)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkdir /part2 ')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mount /dev/sdb2 /part2') ( replace sdb2 with what the first partition for the drive is)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'cp /part2/boot/uImage /part1')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'nano /part2/etc/fstab')

add the following to the fstab file

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/dev/sda2 /boot noatime 0 0 ')

then crtl-x
and accept the prompts to save the file

Then put the drive back and try and boot it. It may take more than once.
Tom

[Jakodns]

Roger that! Will do that now, just gotta make a new liveCD since my laptop doesn't have a good way to get 3.5" HHD's in it


Will update how it goes

( replace sdb1 with what the first partition for the drive is)
( replace sdb2 with what the first partition for the drive is)


I asume you are meaning the 2nd partition in the 2nd case you write it?



Okey, it now boots correctly since i can find it in the router? But I get connection refused instantly when trying to connect to it... Any ideas there oh all mighty linux gurus?

And I tried to login to it blindly with the keyboard, but i dont know if that worked

[pepedog]

If the rootfs gets mounted as read only, it could do that. remount somewhere required, or option in uboot.

[Jakodns]

Might need some instructions how to do that....

[Socaltom]

Are the drive lights flickering?
Tom

[Jakodns]

No lights are flashing on it except the top most which is a stable orange