Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-19 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 17/05/14 10:52, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 00:17 +0200, Alexander Pohl wrote: With the flash-kernel method there should be no need to reflash grub, unless the factory one is horribly broken somehow. I think that is the case here (factory image is horribly broken) as I am not

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 00:17 +0200, Alexander Pohl wrote: With the flash-kernel method there should be no need to reflash grub, unless the factory one is horribly broken somehow. I think that is the case here (factory image is horribly broken) as I am not able to get the kernel to boot (see

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 15/05/14 01:09, Paul Wise wrote: Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to wheezy-backports. Yes, I tried to load many different kernel images but no luck.

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread drEagle
On 16/05/2014 19:51, Alexander Pohl wrote: On 15/05/14 01:09, Paul Wise wrote: Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to wheezy-backports. Yes, I tried to

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 16/05/14 19:57, drEagle wrote: On 16/05/2014 19:51, Alexander Pohl wrote: On 15/05/14 01:09, Paul Wise wrote: Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 15/05/14 12:47, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 19:16 +0200, Alexander Pohl wrote: Ideally, one would have to supply an u-boot version which has the Grub API enabled and then to chain load Grub from there, Ideally perhaps but in reality there are various issues with running grub

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 19:16 +0200, Alexander Pohl wrote: Ideally, one would have to supply an u-boot version which has the Grub API enabled and then to chain load Grub from there, Ideally perhaps but in reality there are various issues with running grub on u-boot (the u-boot API is pretty

Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-14 Thread Alexander Pohl
Hi, Is there hope to have support for Debian on Synology NAS boxes with Armada 370/XP processors added in the future? The new generation of Synology NAS boxes is almost entirely based on ARM Armada SoC's, so if Debian adds support for this platform it would be possible to install on many

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 15/05/2014 3:16 AM, Alexander Pohl wrote: Could you please elaborate on the reasons why Synology boxes are not yet supported by the Debian installer images and where the problems are to implement support in the future. I know this is the debian-arm list, but how about a suggestion for

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to wheezy-backports. https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=abel Looking at your list and at the upstream Linux kernel