Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > Jawkins - do you have the u-boot binary you built from the Marvell > sources? does it have ext2 & eSATA support? I never actually got round to building it in the end, but looking at the latest u-boot git repo, it looks like the GuruPlug should have ext

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread Stuart Winter
> I never actually got round to building it in the end, but looking at the > latest u-boot git repo, it looks like the GuruPlug should have ext2 and > SATA enabled by default. OK. I've just looked at this: http://oinkzwurgl.org/guruplug_uboot and downloaded the binaries. Running strings over u-

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread Robby Workman
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:44:01 + (GMT) Stuart Winter wrote: > I've just looked at this: > http://oinkzwurgl.org/guruplug_uboot > and downloaded the binaries. Running strings over u-boot.bin (from > the tar archive) shows it has ext2load: perhaps you want to try using > this u-boot binary for c

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread John O'Donnell
You are booting from ext. It is HIDEOUSLY slow. I make a small FAT partition and boot from that on the guru usb. ** This message has been delivered via a Google Android ** On Nov 28, 2010 10:43 AM, "Robby Workman" wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:44:01 + (GMT) Stuart Winter wrote: > I've jus

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread Brian Kelley
has anybody tried using Qi  instead of uboot? --- On Sun, 11/28/10, Robby Workman wrote: From: Robby Workman Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus To: "Slackware ARM port" Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 9:43 AM On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:44:01 + (

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug ServerPlus

2010-11-28 Thread blair . hoddinott
Yeah, I've tried that uboot (in my OP), but still no joy. It comes up with bad block device. This makes me think it doesn't see the esata. Before, using that uboot to my usb drive, results in the hang at uncompressing linux which Ron is experiencing. _B Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rog

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread Stuart Winter
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, John O'Donnell wrote: > You are booting from ext. It is HIDEOUSLY slow. I make a small FAT partition > and boot from that on the guru usb. This must be something to do with the Guruplug. I boot from an ext2 partition on my sheevaplugs and openrd (which has an eSATA drive) an

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug ServerPlus

2010-11-28 Thread blair . hoddinott
This was my experience with the sheevaplug as well. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Stuart Winter Sender: armedslack-boun...@lists.armedslack.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:03:14 To: Slackware ARM port Reply-To: Slackware ARM port