On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:19:42AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > > Once booted, do you see a /proc/mtd file ? > > > r...@hpf4ce462349e3:~# cat /proc/mtd > dev: size erasesize name > mtd0: 00010000 00010000 "u-boot env" > mtd1: 00010000 00010000 "permanent u-boot env" > mtd2: 00010000 00010000 "HP env" > mtd3: 00080000 00010000 "u-boot" > mtd4: 00040000 00010000 "SSD firmware"
Good. Now at least we know it uses uboot. > If that doesn't work the thing has to go back to HP, apparently. Can > anybody tell me with some confidence that I should be able to load a > debian or Ubuntu 9.04 uboot image into there and have my way with > it? I don't mind playing, but I really don't want to brick this > thing on a whim. It would be better to boot w/o flashing anything (no risk to brick it). But this would require some serial console access to enter the commands. Do you have one ? (I don't remember that you replied to that question.) If so, since the TC seems to be OpenRD based from previous informations, you can try a debian install, following this link : http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/openrd/install.html W/o serial console, have you tried to open the casing ? You'll find here the user guide for the OpenRD-Base board : http://www.open-rd.org/index.php/component/remository/func-startdown/3/ If the board is this one or similar enough, the page 15 shows the place of the mini-USB connector for the serial console. You'll find also valuable information to try a tftp boot. Finaly, you can also contact the debian-arm mailing list, with a lot of arm gurus lurking ;) Hih, -- JFS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
