Re: Please rebuild robustbase and then fportfolio

2011-02-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Hector, Thanks for the follow-up. On 23 February 2011 at 18:49, Hector Oron wrote: | Hi, | | 2011/2/22 Dirk Eddelbuettel : | | > Could someone please schedule a rebuild of robustbase on armel, followed by a | > rebuild of fportfolio on armel? | | That has been done. Very well, and I can

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Martin! I'll keep that in mind... I've also got a "Client". Do you know a uboot binary that supports SD- card booting on the OpenRD-Client? Thanks for all your good work in this area! Rick On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas [2011-02-22 23:04]: Th

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-23 Thread u7l11ey
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one > problem report about the RAID uuid changing. What does it take to do a successful upgrade on a slug? Is it really just replacing "lenny" by "squeeze" in /etc/apt/sources.list ? What about the "non-f

Re: Please rebuild robustbase and then fportfolio

2011-02-23 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/2/22 Dirk Eddelbuettel : > Could someone please schedule a rebuild of robustbase on armel, followed by a > rebuild of fportfolio on armel? That has been done. Thanks, --  Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disc

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom [2011-02-22 09:54]: > Following the recent conversations regarding upgrade problems I > would appreciate some success stories before I attempt the upgrade > on my (production) machines. Anyone willing to share? Please state > your device type as well (I run an NSLU2 and a TS-209

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom [2011-02-21 21:18]: > So what's the bottom line of this for the average user? Should I > take any precautionary measures before upgrading my slug to Squeeze > (I will of course follow the instructions in the release notes)? Is > it clear why Jeffrey's ramdisk didn't fit in the fl

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Luca Niccoli [2011-02-22 11:27]: > Compressing my initrd with lzma instead of gzip reduces its size by > 30%, so it could fit. BEWARE though, there could be catches I'm not > aware of (I haven't actually tried booting in this configuration), > maybe Martin could enlighten us? I suppose it woul

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Jeffrey B. Green [2011-02-21 15:00]: > Yes. I do have lvm installed for the slug. So, that is a decent size hit... > > >Can you upload initrd.img-2.6.32-5-ixp4xx somewhere so I can have a > >look at it? > > > Sent to you separately. Thanks. I generated a ramdisk on my NSLU2 and it just fits;

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas [2011-02-22 23:04]: > The problem is that Uboot 3.4.16 doesn't support access to the MMC/SD card. > > So now the question is: What version should I upgrade to? Is it OK > to use the same one I used to upgrade the SheevaPlug? U-Boot I don't know which binary to use for the Ultima

vgchange (lvm) fails with large snapshots on low memory machines

2011-02-23 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I am running 2.6.32-5-orion5x on a dns-323 (800MHz processor, 64MB RAM). When I have large snapshots (e.g., 75GB), I cannot activate the snapshots or the corresponding original lvm partition. In fact, running the command "vgchange -ay" (or the equivalent lvchange version) either hangs the machine

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Luca Niccoli
Mmm, I double checked and found this post [0] that states that the version I linked doesn't work on the Ultimate. Also, the u-boot version in debian (and upstream git as well) appears only to support openrd-base, w/o SD. This thread could give you some better pointers for a working version: http:/

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 23 February 2011 04:04, Rick Thomas wrote: > So now the question is:  What version should I upgrade to?  Is it OK to use > the same one I used to upgrade the SheevaPlug?  U-Boot 3.4.27+pingtoo binary Don't. I did and I ended up with a half-bricked OpenRD Base. If you find the openrd version i

Re: Why shouldn't I upgrade uboot on my new OpenRD Ultimate? If so, to which version?

2011-02-23 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:04:17PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Or is there a special one for the OpenRD machines? The openrd_base image in the Debian u-boot package is supposed to work for OpenRD-Base, OpenRD-Client, and OpenRD-Ultimate. If it does not, please file a bug report. -- To UNSUBSCR