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Astaro on Cobalt RaQ3

I'm trying to install Astaro on a Cobalt RaQ3 with some problems.  From what I've read everywhere, the steps to do this are the following:

1) Restore Cobalt to factory default
2) Copy the ROM flash utility to disk and run it
3) Boot a secondary PC with the Astaro Cobalt CD   and attach it to the Cobalt with a cross-over cable
4) Boot Cobalt holding down the "S" button and select boot from network.
5) Follow setup steps on the RaQ LCD panel

My problem is that I don't have the originial Cobalt restore disk, and right now Debian is installed on the RaQ.  I'm wondering if I can run the ROM flash utility from Debian without destroying the box.

Has anyone tried this and had any luck?  If not, does anyone know where I can download the Cobalt restore disk?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago

Hi,

please see ftp://ftp.astaro.org/pub/cobalt/ for download.

Flashing with an Debian will probably fail. I suggest to take a look on the shell script you have inside of flash tarball and issue all steps but flash manually (I assume you're able to do this since you have installed Debian on RaQ [;)]s ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago

Hi,

please see ftp://ftp.astaro.org/pub/cobalt/ for download.

Flashing with an Debian will probably fail. I suggest to take a look on the shell script you have inside of flash tarball and issue all steps but flash manually (I assume you're able to do this since you have installed Debian on RaQ [;)]s ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

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0 martis over 23 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

I appreciate your help Dennis, but I still cannot find the Cobalt restore CD. The link you gave me is to the Astaro install disk.

I will try reading the ROM today from Debian and report any results.

Thanks again.
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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago in reply to martis

I have no idea about original Cobalt restore CD, sorry. If the Debian kernel isn't "cobalt-flash-aware", I could give you an ASL one to proceed the flashing, but I hope it works without this action.
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0 martis over 23 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

OK, upon trying to read the ROM from Debian, I get the following:

># ./flashtool -r
./flashtool: map_rom(): mmap("/dev/mem")
: Invalid argument

Does this mean it cannot read the ROM? I moved the existing /dev/mem to /dev/mem.old and recreated it with "mknod -m 600 /dev/mem c 1 1", but I still get the same error. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike
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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago in reply to martis

It seems that you need a "cobalt" kernel (a kernel with cobalt-specific patches). Icould send you an compiled one if you provide me an email address.
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0 martis over 23 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

I would appreciate it. I'm sending you a private message with my email address.
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