I would like to try this but the project ESIA - Enanched SheevaPlug Installer Application is not in sourceforge anymore

Is this the same thing as http://sourceforge.net/projects/epia/ ?

Thx

Quick question:

May be a lost cause, but I had a Sheevaplug with a blown power supply.  As with other folks, I hacked off the connector, swapped in a 5v power supply, and booted.  Success!  I was able to ssh in, play around, etc...

...for about 10 minutes.  And then it died; SERIOUSLY died.  Now I don't even get any LEDs.  I did notice a little grit around the backup battery.  Too late, I checked the power supply output with a multimeter and it was 5.2v, not a pure 5v.  Not sure how sensitive the components are.

So... anything to do but go through its pockets looking for loose change?

Hi lyzby

Try not rely on EISA or EPIA, these tools makes you learn nothing.

About JFFS2 image:
Just mkfs.jffs2 your openwrt Rootfs. (assume the output name RFS.jffs2)

at U-Boot prompt
>> tftp 2000000 RFS.jffs2
>> nand erase 500000 $(size of this rootfs)
>> nand write.jffs2 2000000 500000 $(size of this rootfs)

Your RootFS is writen to NAND address from 0x500000~(0x500000+rootfs size).
Remember to fix U-Boot env:
1. reallocate your MTD partition. (mtdpart: ......)
2. change bootargs (rootfstype= .....)
then, boot your plug.


About UBIFS, I think ... google may help a lot.
points: (in linux console)
flash_eraseall-->ubiattach --> ubimkvol --> mount --> cp your RootFS to UBI device
If you tried UBIFS and met problems, we can discuss about it.


Regards

Oh, I found out that utf8 is the default for the ntfs-3g driver, so my fstab line looks like this now:

/dev/sdc1               /mnt/usbdisk    ntfs-3g         defaults 0 0

Of course, you have to have the locale variables set to “en_US.UTF-8” so you can see your filenames with foreign characters.

Yes, that was it – brilliant!  I needed to set the LANG environment variable to “en_US.UTF-8” (without the quotes) in rc.local.  Without setting LANG, the locale variables were set to POSIX. Now that I’ve set LANG, all the locale variables are automatically set to “en_US.UTF-8” (quotes included) and the mount -a in rc.local correctly mounts my disk and I can see all the filenames with foreign characters.

Thank-you!

It's now August and no change to the site or Guruplug Display availability

I did a pre-order in February and only recently got my unit. Sure it took a long time to deliver, but I got my unit plus the free Jtag. I agree communication both email, and navigating their phone system is a nightmare.

I know some of my class mates canceled, and whilst Global advised them, on the same day that a reverse transaction was going through, it took virtually a week before the transaction registered in  their Bank Account. This I think you cannot blame Global, but more of a case of the Banks.

I was not happy to learn about the heat issue, but I've so far had no problem because I'm only using a 10/100 ethernet connection.

Reading between the lines, the delays have been caused by Global's Engineers working on the fix. Probably they stopped producing units until a fix was evident. There is no point to continue to produce suspect product.

If they were thieves they wouldn't have given refunds. I will probably ask for an upgrade kit, but at the moment I'm happy with what I've got.

Well looking around their site, I found some information...
The GOOD news is that they are all over the place, Buy.com Amazon, even NewEgg, and I found the price as low as 79.99 USD.

the BAD news is that many of the reviews on Amazon are fraudulent entries from employees or paid 'shills'. As it turns out that the wonderful glowing reviews are from people who have never reviewed anything else, ever.     The newer reviewers noted this so proceed with caution.

sigh ...

Since I ordered a Guruplug server plus on 5/15, it was to be shipped within 2 weeks. 

As of 7/22 I never heard anything out of globalfail. Which means they did not return calls or emails. I canceled the order. This seems to be the only thing the "operator" can do besides fib.

As of today the refund does not show on my credit card, they told me initially "tomorrow" ; which would have been 7/23. 

While it is obvious they are shipping to a few people, they are at best incompetent and or liars.

Who else thinks its about time to get the open source schematics, BOM and etc and have these things made somewhere without heat problems and other engineering defects?

One wonders if Sparkfun / Olimex would make them.

I posted a question about how to get openWrt installed to flash under the "Linux distribution" here -- http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=2060.0 -- but it may turn out to be really a u-Boot question, so I'm continuing here.

I think I made a bit of progress by setting the files openwrt-kirkwood-uImage and openwrt-kirkwood-rootfs.tar.gz to run with the ESIA/EPIA installer.  This appears to have installed ok as far as the uImage goes (iminfo reports a good image), and my other problem with a bad block at 0x2a0000 is avoided because this uImage is less than one meg. 

But it appears that ESIA/EPIA makes a ubifs with the rootfs file, and openWrt doesn't support ubifs.  Is there a way to flash a rootfs as a jffs2 nand image?  openWrt would understand that.

I'm open to any other suggestions about how to get openWrt installed to nand (tho I'd prefer a u-Boot command solution, so I would understand what is happening).