Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

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Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 4, 2014, 6:47 pm

Hello, sorry my english isnt so good ... I bought a Seagate Business Storage 2-Bay which use a Cavium CNS3420 SoC(700 MHz) 512 MB RAM, the Seagate Central(256MB RAM) use the same. The board have a...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 12, 2014, 5:16 am

That's quite an interesting bit of hardware. I'm sorry I don't know if it's possible or exactly how to do it ... but ... the first thing you'll need to do is get root access, via console of some sort,...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 13, 2014, 11:06 am

A little more research at my end yields that Cavium do include Debian on their SDK. "Cavium ships a Debian root filesystem in its SDK" - http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Cavium_SOC Only problem is that...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 15, 2014, 10:54 am

Hi, I also own this NAS and compile the Kernel. When booting my Kernel, it doesnt find the root file System. Here is the log: http://pastebin.com/fM3twzGH The Filesystem drivers are compiled in (not...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 15, 2014, 12:16 pm

At first try to build an initramfs, this will help to load the right modules. Second where is your rootfs located? Maybe your bootargs are just wrong.

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 15, 2014, 12:28 pm

Is there an easy way to build the initramfs? My rootfs is on /dev/sda1... there are no other disks.

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 15, 2014, 12:45 pm

For the initramfs or initrd there are two options. First you build your own rootfs or chroot in an existing rootfs and generate it by: mkinitramfs Or you just load the initrd.img from bodhi's rootfs...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 18, 2014, 5:44 am

Debian 7.6 (Wheezy) is up and running quite good. Now there is one question about uboot: Here is my uboot config: http://pastebin.com/xAB7fMRK I want to boot every time automatically the "bootcmd"....

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 18, 2014, 1:13 pm

blackdevil, > I want to boot every time automatically the > "bootcmd". But i have to stop the autoboot and > start with the command "run bootcmd", otherwise > the System boots the original...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 20, 2014, 11:16 am

bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You did not post the u-boot banner so I don't know > which version. Gday, here is the uboot banner: U-Boot 2008.10-mpcore...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 20, 2014, 1:23 pm

Hallo Blackdevil, ja lösche die originalen Einstellungen! Bei mir hatten sich aus welchem Grund auch immer die kompletten Einstellungen im U-Boot verabschiedet und es geht ohne Probleme. Einige Daten...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 22, 2014, 12:29 pm

Hi, are these Bootcommand hard coded in the uboot-firmware? Have I to rebuild uboot with the correct bootcmd for my case? Regard and many thanks! minimi Wrote:...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 22, 2014, 2:05 pm

If nothing else, I would like very much to attach a serial console to my Seagate NAS. Can you please send some details about the location of the header and the pinout? Thanks, Erik

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 28, 2014, 12:12 pm

Hi dingdongcupcake, there is just one free header with 2x2 pins. The pins have are 2mm and not the common 2,54 mm. If you look from the side to the pins, front right is ground, front left is rx, rear...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 28, 2014, 10:17 pm

@blackdevil, Quote> U-Boot 2008.10-mpcore (Nov 11 2012 - 16:30:36) > Whitney model:(HALFDOME) release v1.2-beta2 > Whitney # boot > Unknown command 'boot' - try 'help' > Booting in...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 29, 2014, 1:39 pm

@bodhi Thanks for this useful answer! The patch of the /arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx direcory is attached. Or do you need the patch of the complete linux source?

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

October 29, 2014, 10:21 pm

blackdevil, The patch is large and looks pretty bad :) I don't think we should even attempt to retrofit it. If you can find the Linux SATA driver for this SoC that can be used in modern kernel, then I...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

November 5, 2014, 11:16 am

Hi bodhi, isn't the SATA driver included in the current Kernel? I think, I have thrown in the towel for now. I wanted to upgrade the kernel for using a stable BTRFS, but I change my filesystems back...

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Re: Possible to install Debian on Seagate Business Storage 2?

December 5, 2014, 6:16 am

There's a Cavium SDK3 which is based around 3.4 kernel, and Debian is included ... Ubiquiti users seemed to have some success obtaining it last year -...

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