NC appears successful, but no ip / ssh (goflex) (2 replies)

I've had "U-Boot 2016.05-1 (Jun 20 2016 - 01:58:53 -0600) Arch Linux ARM" running on my GoFlex Home for a while, but I would like to leave that working on the sata as it does now, but run Debian from a usb. It must have an ip because nc sees it, but i can't ping or ssh to it or see it on my router's list (asus merlin)

I have a usb-serial but the actual device is damaged at the moment so I am trying to debug with NC (thank goodness that is still working)

Even though the sata/arch was working, I flashed the envs from http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381 to see if that would help, and i followed this to make the rootfs usb http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096

Here is what i get from NC:

travis@odroid64:/root$ nc -lup 6666 192.168.1.2 6666

U-Boot 2016.05-1 (Jun 20 2016 - 01:58:53 -0600) Arch Linux ARM
Seagate GoFlex Home                                                                         0
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found

Reset IDE: ide_preinit failed
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'

Partition Map for USB device 0  --   Partition Type: DOS

Part    Start Sector    Num Sectors     UUID            Type
  1     2048            15190016        2164f510-01     83
loading envs from usb 0 ...
** File not found /boot/uEnv.txt **

no IDE devices available
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'
running scan_disk ...
Scan device usb
device usb 0:1
1 bytes read in 231 ms (0 Bytes/s)
Found bootable drive on usb 0
loading uImage ...
3165501 bytes read in 388 ms (7.8 MiB/s)
loading uInitrd ...
7179935 bytes read in 513 ms (13.3 MiB/s)
loading DTB /boot/dts/kirkwood-goflexhome.dtb ...
10605 bytes read in 954 ms (10.7 KiB/s)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-4.4.0-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2016-08-19  16:01:31 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    3165437 Bytes = 3 MiB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
   Image Name:   initramfs-4.4.0-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2016-02-19   7:33:04 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    7179871 Bytes = 6.8 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01c00000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1c00000

I cannot get interrupt to work, but if I start it up with nothing attached it will get me to the prompt and I am able to interact with that, here is my current envs (random numbers are me trying to inturupt):

travis@odroid64:/root$ nc -l -u -p 6666

U-Boot 2016.05-1 (Jun 20 2016 - 01:58:53 -0600) Arch Linux ARM
Seagate GoFlex Home                                                                         2  1 dfdfvfd 0
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found

Reset IDE: ide_preinit failed
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'

no USB devices available

no IDE devices available
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'
running scan_disk ...
Scan device usb
device usb 0:1
** Bad device usb 0 **
device usb 1:1
** Bad device usb 1 **
device usb 2:1
** Bad device usb 2 **
device usb 3:1
** Bad device usb 3 **
Scan device ide

Reset IDE: ide_preinit failed
device ide 0:1
** Bad device size - ide 0 **
device ide 1:1
** Bad device size - ide 1 **
device ide 2:1
** Bad device ide 2 **
device ide 3:1
** Bad device ide 3 **
Scan device mmc
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'
device mmc 0:1
** Bad device mmc 0 **
device mmc 1:1
** Bad device mmc 1 **
device mmc 2:1
** Bad device mmc 2 **
device mmc 3:1
** Bad device mmc 3 **
loading uImage ...
** Bad device usb 0 **
loading uInitrd ...
** Bad device usb 0 **
loading DTB /boot/dts/kirkwood-goflexhome.dtb ...
** Bad device usb 0 **
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
GoFlexHome>printenv
ddddfdfvfdsdprintenv
Unknown command 'ddddfdfvfdsdprintenv' - try 'help'
GoFlexHome> printenv
printenv
arcNumber=3338
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),-(rootfs)
bootcmd=run bootcmd_uenv; run scan_disk; run set_bootargs; run bootcmd_exec
bootcmd_exec=run load_uimage; if run load_initrd; then if run load_dtb; then bootm $load_uimage_addr $load_initrd_addr $load_dtb_addr; else bootm $load_uimage_addr $load_initrd_addr; fi; else if run load_dtb; then bootm $load_uimage_addr - $load_dtb_addr; else bootm $load_uimage_addr; fi; fi
bootcmd_uenv=run uenv_load; if test $uenv_loaded -eq 1; then run uenv_import; fi; sleep 3
bootdelay=10
bootdev=usb
device=0:1
devices=usb ide mmc
disks=0 1 2 3
dtb_file=/boot/dts/kirkwood-goflexhome.dtb
ethact=egiga0
ethaddr=00:50:43:fc:09:1c
if_netconsole=ping $serverip
init_ide=ide reset
init_mmc=mmc rescan
init_usb=usb start
ipaddr=192.168.1.2
led_error=orange blinking
led_exit=green off
led_init=green blinking
load_dtb=echo loading DTB $dtb_file ...; load $bootdev $device $load_dtb_addr $dtb_file
load_dtb_addr=0x1c00000
load_initrd=echo loading uInitrd ...; load $bootdev $device $load_initrd_addr /boot/uInitrd
load_initrd_addr=0x1100000
load_uimage=echo loading uImage ...; load $bootdev $device $load_uimage_addr /boot/uImage
load_uimage_addr=0x800000
mainlineLinux=yes
mtdids=nand0=orion_nand
mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),-(rootfs)
nc_ready=1
ncip=192.168.1.3
partition=nand0,2
preboot=run preboot_nc
preboot_nc=setenv nc_ready 0; for pingstat in 1 2 3 4 5; do; sleep 1; if run if_netconsole; then setenv nc_ready 1; fi; done; if test $nc_ready -eq 1; then run start_netconsole; fi
scan_disk=echo running scan_disk ...; scan_done=0; setenv scan_usb "usb start";  setenv scan_ide "ide reset";  setenv scan_mmc "mmc rescan"; for dev in $devices; do if test $scan_done -eq 0; then echo Scan device $dev; run scan_$dev; for disknum in $disks; do if test $scan_done -eq 0; then echo device $dev $disknum:1; if load $dev $disknum:1 $load_uimage_addr /boot/uImage 1; then scan_done=1; echo Found bootable drive on $dev $disknum; setenv device $disknum:1; setenv bootdev $dev; fi; fi; done; fi; done
scan_ide=ide reset
scan_mmc=mmc rescan
scan_usb=usb start
serverip=192.168.1.3
set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts $custom_params
start_netconsole=setenv ncip $serverip; setenv bootdelay 10; setenv stdin nc; setenv stdout nc; setenv stderr nc; version;
stderr=nc
stdin=nc
stdout=nc
uenv_addr=0x810000
uenv_import=echo importing envs ...; env import -t $uenv_addr $filesize
uenv_init_devices=setenv init_usb "usb start";  setenv init_ide "ide reset";  setenv init_mmc "mmc rescan"; for devtype in $devices; do run init_$devtype; done;
uenv_load=run uenv_init_devices; setenv uenv_loaded 0; for devtype in $devices;  do for disknum in 0; do run uenv_read_disk; done; done;
uenv_loaded=0
uenv_read=echo loading envs from $devtype $disknum ...; if load $devtype $disknum:1 $uenv_addr /boot/uEnv.txt; then setenv uenv_loaded 1; fi
uenv_read_disk=if test $devtype -eq mmc; then if $devtype part; then run uenv_read;  fi; else if $devtype part $disknum; then run uenv_read; fi;  fi
usb_ready_retry=15

Environment size: 3259/131068 bytes
GoFlexHome>

if it's pertinent, I set up the usb by ssh'ing (root) into a ARMBIAN Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS 3.14.74-odroidc2 and i am running the nc host session from the same.

thanks for any assistance.