Re: NSA 325 V2 Debian Is Possible!

I bought a new nsa325 v2 and followed Hans instructions and it worked.

Maarten

hans Wrote:
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> Hi, I recently got an nsa-325 so I thought I share
> my experience running debian on it.
> After reading and looking at all the excellent
> work from bodhi, buttzy and others I decided I go
> ahead
> without a serial cable, so I hope its useful:
>
> Procedure to run debian on nsa-325, no need for
> serial cable, no need to open the box,
> no need to interact with u-boot.
>
> # prepare usb stick to boot debian
> Prepare a USB Stick with rootfs / bootfs as from
> bodhi's thread
> I used a SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8GB USB stick which
> seems to be proven to work.
> - Create 2 partitions on the usb stick:
> one small (e.g. 100MB) ext2 filesystem named
> boot
> one ext4 filesystem named rootfs
> - expand the rootfs tar file from bodhi into
> rootfs, I used
> linux-3.16.0-kirkwood-tld-2-bodhi.tar.bz2,
> which I understood is the latest that works with
> stock u-boot, so no flash of u-boot needed.
> - copy files from rootfs /boot to boot filesystem
> - edit etc/fstab in rootfs and adapt filesystem
> type (ext4)
> # usb stick ready to boot debian
>
> # change u-boot env.vars so that debian will be
> booted from usb
> # we can do this from the userspace on nsa-325
> without relying on usb_key_func stuff
>
> telnet to nsa-325 box (I had stock firmware 4.71
> on it), user admin default password 1234
> su root (password 1234)
> execute following commands (put into a script and
> execute):
> (commands taken from usb-debian-uboot.tar.gz)
>
> #
> fw_setenv arcNumber 4495
> fw_setenv mainlineLinux yes
> fw_setenv bootargs_stock 'console=ttyS0,115200
> mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x100000(uboot),0x80000(uboot_en
> v),0x80000(key_store),0x80000(info),0xA00000(etc),
> 0xA00000(kernel_1),0x2FC0000(rootfs1),0xA00000(ker
> nel_2),0x2FC0000(rootfs2) root=/dev/nfs rw
> init=/init'
> fw_setenv bootargs_linux 'console=ttyS0,115200
> mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x100000(uboot),0x80000(uboot_en
> v),0x80000(key_store),0x80000(info),0xA00000(etc),
> 0xA00000(kernel_1),0x2FC0000(rootfs1),0xA00000(ker
> nel_2),0x2FC0000(rootfs2) root=LABEL=rootfs
> loglevel=8'
> fw_setenv bootcmd_linux 'setenv bootargs
> $(bootargs_linux); mw.l f1010100 0020c000; usb
> reset; ext2load usb 0:1 $(loadaddr) /uImage;
> ext2load usb 0:1 0x01100000 /uInitrd; bootm
> $(loadaddr) 0x01100000'
> fw_setenv bootcmd_stock 'setenv bootargs
> $(bootargs_stock); nand read.e $(loadaddr)
> $(kernel_addr) 0xA00000; bootm $(loadadr)'
> fw_setenv to_stock "setenv mainlineLinux no;
> setenv bootcmd \'run bootcmd_stock\'; saveenv;
> reset"
> fw_setenv to_linux "setenv mainlineLinux yes;
> setenv bootcmd \'run bootcmd_linux\'; saveenv;
> reset"
> fw_setenv bootcmd 'run to_linux'
> #
>
> # boot env vars now correctly setup in uboot-env
> flash block
> now (just to be on safe side), execute fw_printenv
> and doublecheck vars
>
> now plug the usb stick into nsa-325 (rear usb-1
> connector)
> reboot
>
> # nsa-325 should now boot into debian, using dhcp
>
> locate IP address on router, ssh to nsa-325 box
> with root and password root
> success :-)
>
> Of course for eventual troubleshooting the serial
> cable will be needed, but
> it looks like if sticking to instructions closely
> this is not mandatory for initial setup.
>
> hans