Weird problem weird solution
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:10 am
Following instructions from an old thread, Spectre 660's Downloads ..., I had -- if I remember correctly -- set up a script in U-Boot called "ubuntu" that looked like Whenever I wanted to run Ubuntu (at least once a day, because Odyssey is a terrible thing to do google mail from) I'd go to the Command option of U-Boot, type "run ubuntu" and soon Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS would be up and running.
Today running ubuntu attempted to reset usb, but found no storage device and the wrong size of something or other. I panicked because I have an important job to do this afternoon, that essentially requires Scribus. I can think of two possible causes for the problem. Somewhat earlier I had been about to compose an e-mail through my e-mail service provider (gmail.hawaii.edu), looked away for a moment, and looked back to find a black screen. Still had the red lights shining in the X5000, but I couldn't get a flicker on the monitor.
It turned out to be a power outage. The computer was still on because of a backup power supply, but no wifi, and I don't usually plug the monitor into the backup.
When the power came back on, for some reason I ended up in OS4, rebooted, and that's when the "ubuntu" script failed me as described above.
Out of desperation I tried something I had no hope of working. I typed the above script into U-Boot but changed the "0:1" in the two fatload lines to "1:1" and here I am! Why? And what do I do now to make the original script work?
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usb reset
setenv bootargs root=/dev/sdb2 rootdelay=10 mem=3500M [except I think I left the "mem=3500M" part out]
fatload usb 0:1 1000000 uImage-cyrus
fatload usb 0:1 1c00000 cyrus_5020.dtb
bootm 1000000 - 1c00000
Today running ubuntu attempted to reset usb, but found no storage device and the wrong size of something or other. I panicked because I have an important job to do this afternoon, that essentially requires Scribus. I can think of two possible causes for the problem. Somewhat earlier I had been about to compose an e-mail through my e-mail service provider (gmail.hawaii.edu), looked away for a moment, and looked back to find a black screen. Still had the red lights shining in the X5000, but I couldn't get a flicker on the monitor.
It turned out to be a power outage. The computer was still on because of a backup power supply, but no wifi, and I don't usually plug the monitor into the backup.
When the power came back on, for some reason I ended up in OS4, rebooted, and that's when the "ubuntu" script failed me as described above.
Out of desperation I tried something I had no hope of working. I typed the above script into U-Boot but changed the "0:1" in the two fatload lines to "1:1" and here I am! Why? And what do I do now to make the original script work?