ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once!

[ormiller]

I am also having problems with a 2 TB drive. Do I have to format the ext2 partition with different parameters ?
-> Serial data output about the hard drive .
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Marvell Serial ATA Adapter
Integrated Sata device found
[0 0 0]: Enable DMA mode (6)
Device 0 @ 0 0:
Model: WDC WD20EARX-008FB0 Firm: 51.0AB51 Ser#: WD-WCAZAH547172
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 1907729.0 MB = 1863.0 GB (-387938128 x 512)

** Unable to read "/uImage" from ide 0:1 **
## Booting image at 02000000 ...
Bad Magic Number

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ormiller', ' ')Do I have to format the ext2 partition with different parameters ?

[WarheadsSE]

1) the uImage has to on that first partition
2) did you use my install method?

[WarheadsSE]

I used the method with the script but the filesystems it created were unable to be seen on another computer. gparted said there were 2 a ext2 and a ext3 but the laptop I mounted it to could only see the ext3 and it had problems viewing it. I am guessing there was a problem with the fdisk on the NSA325.
Using Debian squeeze on my laptop and a drive connected via usb drive mate I created a 16m ext2 sda1 and copied ulmage to it.
With the rest of the disk I created an ext3 filesystem and used tar to extract the files from ArchLinuxARM-armv5te-latest.tar.gz to it.

The NSA325 now boots. Thank you,

Now the system reboots after trying to :
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| |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
| | | | (_| | | \ V / __/ | |
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I also noticed beforehand that the ext3 was mounted ext4 Read Only. Should I format it to EXT4?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ 17.385267] netconsole: network logging started
[ 17.390216] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0
[ 17.397162] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 17.413255] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 17.420900] EXT4-fs (sda2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[ 17.427823] EXT4-fs (sda2): write access will be enabled during recovery
[ 17.473526] EXT4-fs (sda2): recovery complete
[ 17.478385] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 17.486113] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:2.
[ 17.517943] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 17.521428] Freeing init memory: 172K

INIT: version 2.88 booting


\0x1b[0;10m\0x1b[1m\0x1b[34m > \0x1b[0;10m\0x1b[1mArch Linux ARM
\0x1b[0;10m')

[WarheadsSE]

You can if you want. The kernel is configured to use the Ext4 module to mount Ext2/3 fileystems.

[ormiller]

ext4 did not fix the problem.

[ 15.019009] EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 15.039906] EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 15.139599] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 15.147311] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:2.
[ 15.189577] devtmpfs: mounted

[CharlesB]

Have you actually tried logging in and writing to your filesystem to see if there's really a problem? You'll see those same messages on my boot, but it works fine. I'm guessing that it mounts the FS R/O first, then later remounts it R/W.

[ormiller]

I am unable to get into the operating system prompt. The box reboots before I can do anything.

Does anybody know the commands to set the environment variables to be able to boot from the NAND and the USB once again ?

Thanks,

[WarheadsSE]

interrupt uboot
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
> run to_stock
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[ormiller]

Found out why my NSA325 won't run the script.
There is no mkfs.ext3 installed on the base OS. I changed the line for fdisk to make a partition that is 1020M that defaulted to /dev/sda2 since I was using a 2TB disk and want my data to be separate from the OS. I changed the line from mkfs.ext3 to mkfs.ext2, and I changed the line for the mount -t ext3 to mount-t ext2 .

I now have a running archlinux OS on my Zyxel NSA325 machine !

Thanks for your help.