Hello,
and thank you so much for such a detailed article.
I almost got my NSA325 working straight on the first attempt, but the box refused to boot (from HDD) ... until I created the filesystem again with '-L "rootfs"' -parameter...
I don't know why this was needed as the documentation gives an impression that the u-boot would be able to figure out everything by itself...
As this was my very first attempt to install debian on my NSA325, so first I did the u-boot section, then proceeded by installing 'Debian-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2'.
After I got the box booting from HDD, I was able to update the OS to 'linux-4.18.4-kirkwood-tld-1-bodhi.tar.bz2'.
So, I don't know whether or not it would be needed to create the filesystem with '-L "rootfs"' -parameter, (i.e. mkfs.ext3 -L "rootfs" /dev/sdX) but at least in my case it solved the boot problem.
In addition, I'd like to know is u-boot able to boot from a raid -partition, or would I first need to flash uImage in order to be able to continue booting uInitrd from raid partition?
and thank you so much for such a detailed article.
I almost got my NSA325 working straight on the first attempt, but the box refused to boot (from HDD) ... until I created the filesystem again with '-L "rootfs"' -parameter...
I don't know why this was needed as the documentation gives an impression that the u-boot would be able to figure out everything by itself...
As this was my very first attempt to install debian on my NSA325, so first I did the u-boot section, then proceeded by installing 'Debian-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2'.
After I got the box booting from HDD, I was able to update the OS to 'linux-4.18.4-kirkwood-tld-1-bodhi.tar.bz2'.
So, I don't know whether or not it would be needed to create the filesystem with '-L "rootfs"' -parameter, (i.e. mkfs.ext3 -L "rootfs" /dev/sdX) but at least in my case it solved the boot problem.
In addition, I'd like to know is u-boot able to boot from a raid -partition, or would I first need to flash uImage in order to be able to continue booting uInitrd from raid partition?