On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Tim Small <t...@buttersideup.com> wrote: > Old linkstation stock-firmware versions won't boot at all with this > parameter removed - they won't boot the standard Buffalo Linux stuff > thereafter either....
There definitely needs to be some kind of check in the script then to prevent people from accidentally bricking their boxes. It looks like the Buffalo u-boot exposes a version in the BOOTVER environment variable: 1.01 for the original firmware, 1.10 for the updated (1.15 or LSProV2) firmware. We can easily check that in the script. I'm going to flash a few different bootloaders into my Linkstation to verify that the BOOTVER does change. Do you know what the precise effects are of using initrd= without the size parameter? As I understand it there is no form that allows us to use initramfs with the old bootloader but if we can set it to something that would still allow booting the Buffalo initrd that would definitely be preferable. Thanks, Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
