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SpannerInTheWorks I have posted you another drop of avr_evtd to test. Can you give it a go and post me any debug dumps?

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LS used as PVR and streaming source

As you have access to both configuration files, and you can set them both to the same value, you can boot into the kernel and root filesystem you prefer.

interesting. which configuration files are you referring to? on /dev/hda1 or on /dev/hda3?

i hope you do not want to load the any kernel with "root=/dev/hda1" after loading one with "root=/dev/hda3"...this sounds like an infinite loop of kernel-loading.....

besides: i just realized that i could put an additional entry in /dev/hda3/etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda1 to a mountpoint of my choice...or i do it the manual way. both ways of course let us access all configuration files....

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LS1 (2.6 kernel, foonas svn1062, 750 GB, UBoot 1.2) & LS Pro (FreeLink/jtymod/GenLink, changes all the time)
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boot 2.6 with hda1 || boot 2.4 from hda1
boot 2.6 with hda3 || boot 2.4 from hda1

Where's the loop? Booting a couple of times will always get you into 2.6 somewhere, or 2.4 on /dev/hda1 in case of an error. Beyond that, you can access all configuration files any time.

Be warned messing with rcS.d/* is dangerous. Double-check your scripts!

@andre: tried the avr in rcS.d but it did not seem to get executed. I placed it at S25 and added a touch to a file to see if it got called, it did not? Ran chkconfig and it reported okay. Any clues you could offer?

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LS used as PVR and streaming source

The logger command should give you a syslog/messages/linkstation.log entry in any case. (OpenLink, BTW, probably uses /etc/rc.d/rcS.d/)

I will hopefully receive a patch against 2.6.16 tonight that's supposed to address the AVR start/stop problem on the kernel level. Read more about it at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkStation_General/message/5186>.

avr_evtd is now fully functional for the mips.

I can confirm it fixes the 5min reeboot issue.

I no longer use mc_ctld now.

This is great news. Good work lb_worm!

It is posted up on sourceforge.

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LS used as PVR and streaming source

Hi,
I made new loader.o for MIPS (as already mentioned by bauldrick .
It may take from HERE.
It is much stable to boot.

And, NetBSD loader for PPC may also takes HERE.
It also includes all of Linux loader.o for PPC(KUROBOX, KUROBOX/HG, LinkStationV1, LinkStation/HG, TeraStation).

# Other NetBSD related archives may get from HERE.

Thanks.

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NetBSD/LinkStation works well

what was the problem with the pci-controller?

in the readme of the mips-loader.o-package i found this changelog:

(2006-06-10)
- Disable PCI-controller on CPU (79RC32434 depend).
- Add a wait(1sec) before copy of the kernel.
- Some typo fixed.

everyone who had problems to load a kernel on the LS2, plz try it with the new loader.o.

if you are using andre's bootloader simply pick loader.o out of the enji's package, rename it to loaderII.o and put it into /bootII

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LS1 (2.6 kernel, foonas svn1062, 750 GB, UBoot 1.2) & LS Pro (FreeLink/jtymod/GenLink, changes all the time)
Thx to all donators!

@mindbender

what was the problem with the pci-controller?

It was still running PCI Bus-Master DMA.
Disables interrupt was not enough. (sigh...)
It breaks (compressed/uncompressed) kernel image on RAM.
So, disabling PCI-Controller to stop PCI-DMA.

BTW; My handle spelled "Eiji", not "Enji"
Please re-edit the topic tltle again?
Thank you.

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It was still running PCI Bus-Master DMA.
Disables interrupt was not enough. (sigh...)
It breaks (compressed/uncompressed) kernel image on RAM.
So, disabling PCI-Controller to stop PCI-DMA.

I see. it doesn`t make a difference for the kernel loaded afterwards.....but it is needed to load the kernel at all.

BTW; My handle spelled "Eiji", not "Enji"
Please re-edit the topic tltle again?
Thank you.


done. i am sorry!

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LS1 (2.6 kernel, foonas svn1062, 750 GB, UBoot 1.2) & LS Pro (FreeLink/jtymod/GenLink, changes all the time)
Thx to all donators!

I see. it doesn`t make a difference for the kernel loaded afterwards.....but it is needed to load the kernel at all.

Yes, I agree with you.

done. i am sorry!

No problem. Thank you.

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NetBSD/LinkStation works well

How well does this work? Has this been contributed upstream (the official NetBSD project)? Is there still development going on? I'd be willing to help trying out any binaries if this helps, since I got an L2 box. However, I still have to get an USB/Serial adapter, because none of my newer system supports serial connectors anymore.

I only found this, but this appears to only be PPC related: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sandpoint/i ... ation.html