Un-retire my DockStar (12 replies)

Hey all,

I played with the Dockstar several years ago, and shelved it after it either had a failed kernel upgrade (kirkwood from debian-backports) or the USB drive took a dump. However, I have a need for it and have a few questions regarding updates, especially since Jeff's original scripts were for Lenny/Squeeze, and not Jessie/Stretch. I booted it up today, and found that it has the 2.8.2 rescue image replacing the original Seagate firmware.

1. Is it possible to update U-Boot from the rescue image, and will it affect the image in anyway?

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rescue:/etc# dmesg | grep -i 'bad'
[   13.197290] Scanning device for bad blocks
[   13.301179] Bad eraseblock 1341 at 0x00000a7a0000
[   13.511632] UBI: number of bad PEBs:         0
[   13.548205] UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 2

According to the above, the bad block is NOT in the first 8, so should be OK to flash new U-Boot?

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2. I think my old USB flash drive failed. Have other people had issues with this? I'd like to install/boot Debian from an old FreeAgent Go (sata) drive, sitting directly on the dock (and not in USB 1). Can I just write bodhi's rootfs to that drive and partition the rest?

3. Will the most recent rootfs (Nov '15, I believe) be affected by kernel updates from say, backports? Or is that just the kernel used to build the rootfs?

Guidance and suggestions appreciated.

Thanks!