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brand of flash matters. before the raspi came along and popularized arm computing, there was a very lively scene around arm hacking out of existing devices. sh
by techrat 12y ago
brand of flash matters.
before the raspi came along and popularized arm computing, there was a very lively scene around arm hacking out of existing devices. sheevaplug started the trend and people found that things like the seagate dockstar (a nas based hard drive dock) could be easily modified to boot a linux distro from usb and run as a low power headless server.
we kept a list of results from our experiences of what issues we had when trying to use new/different thumbdrives in the dockstar.
various issues with some brands included being unable to cold boot (boot from a power off state) or warm boot (boot when rebooting the system from a power on state). the brands that gave us issues were fairly consistent in this regards. we had the best luck with sandisk based thumbdrives.
i imagine the situation and cause is probably similar, if not identical, in this case.
- narrowrail 12y ago>sheevaplug started the trend Not to be pedantic, but before the Sheevaplug, there was the Linksys NSLU2, which came out in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/FirmwareMatrix http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/FirmwareMatrix
- techrat 12y agoPedantry noted. It's probably better describing the SheevaPlug as the device that fostered the trend towards plug computing rather than the one that encouraged device hacking as my statement would imply. I mistakenly omitted the key detail that the Dockstar was a custom piece of hardware that was based on the SheevaPlug... Same SOC and features.
- jbuzbee 12y agoThose were the days! I was the first to hack in to get root on that little box but others took it much further than me! http://batbox.org/nslu2-linux.html http://batbox.org/nslu2-linux.html I still have a couple around, but rarely turn them on.