first installation, can't make it !

[chapy23]

With your help i now understand how your netconsole et fwdl-console works :-)

(none) login:

I just watch my log on DHCP (my router is a PFSENSE box, you know that opensource firewall ?)
After the netconsole box, lacie drive change from 192.168.2.9 to 192.168.2.123 (watching the log, MAC adresse)
So i change the number before in fwdl-console box before launching it, it works !!

Anyhow, now i can login to telnet, hummmm i'm stress to flash u-boot !!!
grrrrrrrrrrr

bye

chapy23

[chapy23]

What you think now??

root@LACIE-NAS:/ # dmesg | grep console
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda7 ro reset=0 productType=ASTON_KW GPT fvdw vs80
[ 10.643423] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 11.302326] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 11.305981] netconsole: network logging started

Is that mean now i run the new flash ?
Any ssh command i can run to confirm ?

bye

chapy23

PS: btw, the flash was a stress but i think evertyhing goes well !!

[fvdw]

PS: btw, the flash was a stress but i think evertyhing goes well !!

:-D yes I can imagine.

:thumbup It went ok looking to your output, you successfully installed the new u-boot, it now will support disks with GPT partition tables as well
When you prepare the 4TB disk you will need to make a GPT partition table using program gdisk instead of fdisk if you go the manual route.
If you managed to get the standalone kernel running and can access it using the telnet client tan I advise you to use the fvdw-sl firmware install option of the fvdw-sl console this will do this then for you.
Note the new disk must not have any partition.

[chapy23]

Hi again fvdw

I just receive my new 4TB drive
Has you know, i now have a LaCie Network Space 2 flash with u-boot to support GTP partition.

Is there any tutorial how to install (create partition) like the fvdw-11 ?
I mean, create partition with FDISK (linux command).
I think that GPT is not exactly the same syntax.

thank's for helping out.

chapy23

[fvdw]

no problem, You cannot use fdisk for it as that is for ms-dos partitions
you can use the program like "gdisk", in the last version of fvdw-sl it is included.
For GPT you don't need to define extended partitons to be able to make more then 4 partitions. The partitions are number now from 1 to 8.
Partitions 1,2,3 should made: 512 MB,
partition 4: 8 MB,
partition 5: 768 MB,
partition 6: 8 MB,
partition 7: 512 MB and
partition 8 the rest of the disk

This are the commands to be used to make the partition table when using gdisk (it also is stetting the right block size)

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x
l
4096
m
n
1
<hit enter, accept default value>
+512M
8300
n
2
<hit enter, accept default value>
+512M
8300
n
3
<hit enter, accept default value>
+512M
8200
n
4
<hit enter, accept default value>
+8M
8300
n
5
<hit enter, accept default value>
+768M
8300
n
6
<hit enter, accept default value>
+8M
8300
n
7
<hit enter, accept default value>
+512M
8300
n
8
<hit enter, accept default value>
<hit enter, accept default value>
8300
w
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[chapy23]

hard time here with my new 4TB drive

What i'v done so far.
put the drive in my debian box
install gdisk
use the hints you gave me in the post ahead.
use this : howto-fvdw-on-lacie nwsp2-5jan2012.pdf to install fvdw-11
put back the 4tb drive in the lacie case
never ping, no go :-(

if i put back the old Hitachi 1tb drive, everything goes still work

what else i can try ?

bye

[chapy23]

I can't stop there and say, damn the machine win :-(
So i just continue to dig and dig to find where the problem came from.

What i found:
- if you have VirtualBox installed, just "desactivate" your VirtualHost card because it will confuse the netcat console (clunc)
- never take for sure that the ip of your lacie won't change (mine juste switch from 192.168.2.123 to 192.168.2.192 !!)

So now, i'm in the process of flashing fvdw-15-1 to my lacie with a brand new 4tb hdd
Hope it will work ... to be continued...

chapy23

[chapy23]

and finally

Firmware Version nwsp2 fvdw-sl 15.2
Kernel: Linux 3.9.5 #199 PREEMPT Thu Jan 9 23:25:16 GMT+1 2014
Date May 3, 2014 03:07:42 AM
Uptime: 0 Days, 0 Hours, 0 Minutes, 39 Seconds

thank's all for the HELP

have fun using that piece of hard work !!

bye

chapy