Help me revive Seagate Dockstar, not booting due to kernel upgrade

[Gaurish]

Hello Everyone,

From past month, My dockstar is unable to boot into debian(pogoplug boots) because I had upgraded kernel using apt-get. I had posted in jeff's forum but could not follow up due to lack of time.

I have tried regenerating image using these commands:

/mnt/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel  -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-2.6.32-5 -d /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-kirkwood /mnt/boot/uImage

/mnt/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs -d /mnt/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-kirkwood /mnt/boot/uInitrd

these commands completed without errors and generated two image. Still I can't boot. I have got the serial cable with me but I was not able to solder it correctly, so didn't get any output via minicom.

So asking all for your help, what should I do?

 

[Gaurish]

:bump: :bump:

Anyone?

 

[techie_007]

Should have gone through the earlier thread, heres where I hit the same issue: http://www.techenclave.com/networki...nd-tutorial-thread-173221-18.html#post1625022

My standard solution for all such issues is simply to restore from backup: http://www.techenclave.com/networki...nd-tutorial-thread-173221-13.html#post1609827

A reinstall should fix it if you didnt keep a backup. Not the best solution I agree, but for someone who isnt an expert in this stuff, its the easiest.

 

[Gaurish]

I did but I didn't have a backup to restore from. I will try reinstalling from Jeff's script. Hopefully it should work

 

[techie_007]

I did but I didn't have a backup to restore from. I will try reinstalling from Jeff's script. Hopefully it should work

It'll work. I accidentally did the kernel update like 3 times before I realized that was what was messing up the dockstar. A restore from backup fixed it everytime, so the same will hold for the reinstall.

And dont try selective updates either, some of the other updates may have a dependency and end up installing the kernel update as well. Found out through experience