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I'm trying to recover a Seagate GoFlex Home unit which I messed up some time ago. The problem was that I mixed up two units, one which accesible by a serial cable and one which wasn't, and I made a mistake with my envars and now it doesn't boot and I don't know of any way of accessing it.
Yesterday I did discover that the system would boot with a Debian USB stick inserted.... Without the stick it would go though a boot cycle with the Green LED flashing for 13 secs before switching off for 3 secs before resuming the cycle. With the Debian USB stick the Green LED flashes for 21 secs before changing to a steady Orange for 11 secs before changing to a steady Green where it stays. My DHCP server does not seem to assign an IP address so I am unable to access it, although the LEDs on the NIC are constantly flashing. To me, it looks as though the system has actually booted, and i was wondering if there was anything I could do with the Debian installation to add a start up routine which would output some msg to a flle which I could examine on another device. I'm not familiar with Debian and don't how uBoot invokes Debian and whether I can run a script to assign a static IP address which I could subsequently ping.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
I'm trying to recover a Seagate GoFlex Home unit which I messed up some time ago. The problem was that I mixed up two units, one which accesible by a serial cable and one which wasn't, and I made a mistake with my envars and now it doesn't boot and I don't know of any way of accessing it.
Yesterday I did discover that the system would boot with a Debian USB stick inserted.... Without the stick it would go though a boot cycle with the Green LED flashing for 13 secs before switching off for 3 secs before resuming the cycle. With the Debian USB stick the Green LED flashes for 21 secs before changing to a steady Orange for 11 secs before changing to a steady Green where it stays. My DHCP server does not seem to assign an IP address so I am unable to access it, although the LEDs on the NIC are constantly flashing. To me, it looks as though the system has actually booted, and i was wondering if there was anything I could do with the Debian installation to add a start up routine which would output some msg to a flle which I could examine on another device. I'm not familiar with Debian and don't how uBoot invokes Debian and whether I can run a script to assign a static IP address which I could subsequently ping.
Any guidance would be appreciated.