Re: Porting uClinux or Snapgear Linux to SE2810 board

From: Damion de Soto (damion_at_cyberguard.com.au)
Date: 10/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:37:12 +1000

Hi Henry,

> I recently received a SE2810 board (looks like a SE2580) and would like
> to load up Snapgear Linux or uClinux for testing. After reading
> through the docs found on uclinux.org, I got a PC with RedHat 7.3
> installed and configured. Also I installed toolchain/distribution, and
> compiled the basics. But I got stuck on the process of communicating
> with the SE2810 board. It seems some script in the existing
> firmware/bootloader keeps running so I couldn't even get to the command
> prompt via minicom. Can anyone kindly tell me if there's a way to get
> to the prompt or better yet, stop or even remove the unwanted exiting
> bootloader? Thanks in advance.
Have you tried ctrl-C on the console? can you actually tell what script is running?

Alternately, if you hold the reset button in while you plug in the power,
the bootloader will try and load an image off a tftp server via ethernet.
You will need a special recovery image for this, not a standard flash image.

Regards, 

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