resurrecting iomega storcenter ix2 u-boot and debian (4 replies)

I have an original 1TB (2x500GB) iomega storcenter that I want to get up and going with debian.

I was able to get uart console functioning to my nearby linux box, and I can see that it is running a very old u-boot, which does not support usb devices.

Marvell Development Board (LSP Version 1.10.3_DB_NAS)-- DB-88F5182-DHNSMR03  Soc: 88F5182 A2
U-Boot 1.1.1 (Jun  3 2007 - 20:44:19) USI u-boot-1.1.1-DHNSMR03/04-v3.1.0.0
Linux version 2.6.12.6-arm1 (td@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.4 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2)) #1 Tue Jul 3 15:31:00 MDT 2007 (kernel-2.6.12-DHNSMR03/04-V-2.1.2.0)


Iomega834x: Flash found at location 0xffc00000
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "Flash":
0x00000000-0x00200000 : "kernel"
0x00200000-0x00380000 : "cramfs"
0x00380000-0x00400000 : "bootloader"

I have a tftp server set up and used tftp to fetch a kernel image but it went silent after jumping to it.
Perhaps starting top down makes sense, but eventually I want to update u-boot in flash.

I tried to build the u-boot for kirkwood but got some compiler errors.
I'd try kwboot but I'm not sure which image to use here, or whether this board will support it.

Does anyone have any starting hints?