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Booting dm8000 with OpenPLI from USB stick

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#1 gonesl

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 00:18

Hello.

I have to boot my bricked dreambox with usbstick - where can I find any image to put on USB stick?
How can I extract dm8000 nfi image?

Re: Booting dm8000 with OpenPLI from USB stick #2 Erik Slagter

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 09:14

If you go into the bootloader, you can select "boot from network" (tftp/dhcp) there.

I don't think it can boot from usb.

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Re: Booting dm8000 with OpenPLI from USB stick #3 gonesl

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 09:46

I have options both for usb and tftp. But what image I have to share by tftpd?

Re: Booting dm8000 with OpenPLI from USB stick #4 hemispherical1

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 18:46

Tftpd just uploads the kernel to the box, then NFS is used for the rootfs (normally). There mav be some way to use USB as the rootfs instead, but I haven't got it to work. If you have a linux box to serve nfs & tftp you could try. Last I knew exporting a "fully functional" NFS share from Windows was quite difficult, of course it's been a few years, maybe it's changed...

As to which image, running nfidump on your desired image (I suggest a regular release image, not a backup) should provide you with the rootfs for NFS & the kernel for tftp (/boot/vmlinux.gz). Personally I gunzipped it and served it as simply vmlinux...

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