Hi alegott, welcome!
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Originally Posted by alegeott
-to pilot the boot step-by-step without serial port, it is possible via SSH in LAN?
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No. LAN is started very late in th boot process; but there is an untested alternative in netconsole (see
post 6 of this thread).
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-where to attach a serial connector DIY, on the motherboard or on the external connector?
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I assume that you mean the one in
this post. It is in the motherboard.
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-Irex still sends devices with serial port enabled?
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For that you will have to ask iRex. Sign-up in irex forums and send a PM to Matthijs. See
this thread in irex forums.
And some unrelated things:
I've seen that tffs is in fact a "block layer" over flash. Above it run the standard filesystems (ext2 and vfat in iliad case). There is a free implementation, but doesn't support the disk-on-chip of the iliad (M-sys DOC G3), only the newer disk-on-chip (DOC2000 and DOC Millennium Plus). Add to the fact that M-sys was bought by Sandisk in 2006 and that the old website is down (so there is no access to the support downloads for the tffs).
I've also seen the the bootloader is also in that disk-on-chip. It is a 1024 bytes partition that is mapped to /dev/tffsa3
So I finally have a full picture of the flash in the iliad.
Attached is the manual of the disk-on-chip.