Installing firmware 11-0. I have a brick?

[fvdw]

mmm...only need to know if it can be mounted and is readable.
So to see it can be mounted and is accessible. Then you would expect that all conditions are met to let it boot.

Typically at boot the blue led will blink and after disk has started and detected it should blink with disk activity for a few minutes while loading the firmware from disk.
What happens if you boot with the blue led.

If it again fails then take out the disk and connect it again to Ubuntu and mount sdb7
If the kernel was loaded successful and started loading the firmware then a file with name boot.log should be present in sdb7 root directory. If that is the case we can look at the content why it stops booting. If it is not there then probably loading of the kernel fails. Very unlikely unless the file you used is corrupt

[gravis]

OK, I'm going to try it :thumbup

[gravis]

Attached text file boot.log:

start boot log
initializing date
Wed Nov 16 12:00:00 GMT+1 2011
booting using root file system...
run udevstart to update dev nodes when necessary
inserting kernel modules:
make dev node for buttons...
configure loopback netwerk interface
starting php based setup routines step 1


 * Initial Orion-Nas XML configuration file... [ OK ]
* Configuring Disks... [ OK ]
* Configuring System Users...
Warning: fopen(/etc/rootpasswd): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/finc/userfunc_users_commit.finc on line 38
[ OK ]
* Starting mount of volumes...
- Mounting volume Default:
[ OK ]
* Finishing mount of volumes... [ OK ]
* Generating Hosts File... [ OK ]
* Configuring System Hostname... [ OK ]
* Configuring Samba... [ OK ]
* Configuring LAN interface... [ OK ]
* Starting udevd... [ OK ]
* Starting web server... [ OK ]
* Initializing Timezone... [ OK ]
* Configuring Samba... [ OK ]
* Starting syncawayd... [ OK ]
* Marvell mediaserver not started...,QOSd...
starting php based setup routines step 2
 * Starting dropbear... cmd : dropbear -p 22 -r '/rw_fs/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key' [ OK ]


* Starting daemon update Hosts File... [ OK ]
starting php based setup routines step banner


*** fvdw-sl NAS firmware
This is fvdw-sl version: fvdw-sl 11.0
built on: Januari 3 2012

LAN IP address: 169.254.187.39 (static - random)

Port configuration:

LAN -> eth0
php based setup routines finished
start buttons control daemon
buttons-nwsp2 daemon started
web permission on resolv.conf
set device tuning for dms performance
move smbd en nmbd db files to ramdisk to enable disk spin down
rcS finished

:whistle
thx

[fvdw]

so this means it boots...and is fully functional...however it does not seem get an IP address and thats why you can not access it.

It then assigns itself a static random addres starting with 169. (this might be different each boot)
Is there a no DHCP server in your LAN ?

[gravis]

Nooo, I have static IP :fists
But.. Lacie network assistant not detected it or wake up mac-device or http://fvdwsl-base/ ???

Without changing the static IP settings, how do I connect ??

Thanks a lot :sob

[fvdw]

how does your LAN look like, do you have a router that is able to assign IP addresses ?

Is your nwsp2 connected to the router or directly to your PC ?

Are you sure the UTP cable you use is ok ?

[gravis]

EUREKA :lmao :applause

After more than 30 installation attempt failed .. 3 weeks of desperation ... 8 installations of Linux distributions (at first I did not know a word of linux) :sob
Finally it works :punk

Thank you very much, Jocko and fvdw
Muchas gracias

[Jocko]

Glad to heard this for you :-D