On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 6:51 PM, rosanna wrote: > btw, about the second option (i.e. booting Debian using the Linux kernel > image from the original buffalofirmware)... well.. I hope to be able to > perform it.. I'm not an expert... In case, have you a suggestion for a > how-to, some instructiones etc?
I'm not very familiar with your hardware or the layout of the original firmware, but I would guess once you have booted Debian you need to do something like below, if you need an real-time guidance on these, you can join the #debian or #debian-arm IRC channels. # Create a temporary directory mkdir tmp # Mount the partition that contains the original firmware rootfs or a copy of it. sudo mount /dev/something tmp # Copy the initrd, uImage, modules from the original firmware rootfs to Debian sudo cp tmp/boot/uImage.buffalo /boot/uImage.buffalo.original-firmware sudo cp tmp/boot/initrd.buffalo /boot/initrd.buffalo.original-firmware sudo cp tmp/lib/modules/* /lib/modules # Next you will have to configure u-boot to boot your alternative kernel # If you have access to the u-boot command prompt, that is the best # method since you can make it happen only for one boot. # Print the configuration with printenv and set variables with foo=bar # You want to change the ones that mention uImage.buffalo/initrd.buffalo # to mention these instead: uImage.buffalo.original-firmware initrd.buffalo.original-firmware # If you do not have access you can move the Debian initrd/uImage aside # and symlink the old version from the original firmware to be booted by default sudo mv /boot/uImage.buffalo /boot/uImage.buffalo.debian sudo mv /boot/initrd.buffalo /boot/initrd.buffalo.debian sudo ln -s uImage.buffalo.original-firmware /boot/uImage.buffalo sudo ln -s initrd.buffalo.original-firmware /boot/initrd.buffalo # Unmount & reboot sudo umount tmp sudo reboot # Check which version of Linux you are running after boot uname -a -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
