Dear Folks, The short story:
After flashing my new NSLU2 with the latest Debian di-nslu2.bin firmware, the device does not finish booting. It seems to stop with the amber status light, no beeps. The long story: I confirmed, of course, that the unit works under the native firmware. I changed the network configuration to correspond to my local subnet. I checked the MD5 sum against the posted one, unzipped, and flashed (via wireless) using upslug2 to the di-nslu2.bin firmware. After packet timeouts, I attached my linux box via cat5. The device flashed and verfied followed by a reboot. As mentioned above, it stopped with the amber status light, no beeps. After the first failure, I reflashed the unit using upslug2 and a manual rest to the Linksys firmware. Everything was then fine: the web config was back with the IP that I configured originally. I tried flashing (via cat5) using the web page method (as outlined in the Debian/NSLU2 web page). Still the same behavior ("hanging with amber status light"). I followed the procedure to the letter, including pulling out the devices prior to upslug2, I tried both hard disk (in a Venus enclosure oxsemi chipset) and a usb stick, in the proscribed order and singly, just to grab at straws. One additional observation (may not be pertinent): I formatted my hard disk with three partitions ext3, swap, ext3 for system, swap and data. I noticed that the Linksys firmware sees my hard disk as "unformatted" which seemed odd to me . . . I was tempted to try their formatting (just to see) but I wanted my hard disk the way originally partitioned so I didn't. Any ideas? I'm hoping it's simple . . . but I have no idea what else to try. Thanks!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]