Hello,
I have succeeded with booting and running Fedora/ARM on QNAP TS-219P [1]. I have used Debian howtos written by Martin Michlmayr [2] as a basis for QNAP specific information [2], root filesystem from [3] and an own kernel and initrd [4]. Available are 2 variants of the initrd - one boots into /dev/sda1 (ext3 partition on disk) and second one boots into a /dev/Linux/Root logical volume.
The steps are 1. prepare a HDD with unpacked root filesystem on a partition (or a LV), you should also unpack the modules-*.tar.bz2 into the newly created filesystem 2. connect serial console to QNAP 3. start TFTP server on your workstation 4. set client/server IP addresses in U-Boot to match your network 5. from U-Boot prompt run tftpboot 0x800000 uImage-2.6.31.1-kw-ts219 tftpboot 0xa00000 initrd-2.6.31.1-kw-ts219-sda1.img.uboot setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 ro root=/dev/sda1' bootm 0x800000 0xa00000 6. login as root, password should be marvell
The kernel/initrd should work on TS-119, TS-219 and TS-219P. I know this mail is very brief, but if you have questions just ask me here or on the #fedora-arm IRC channel (my nick is sharkcz).
final notes: - the init ramdisks are prepared by hand from a template created by mkinitrd - the *.padded files are supposed to be written to the QNAP's flash memory (2 MB kernel, 9 MB ramdisk) - red/green blinking of the power led is expected
Dan
[1] http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=122 [2] http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/ [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM#Latest_Release:_Fedora_11 [4] http://fedora.danny.cz/arm/ts-219p/
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Dan Horák