Unbricking Plug Computers (Shallow Thoughts)

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Thu, 10 Feb 2011

Unbricking Plug Computers

This week's Linux Planet article continues my Plug Computing part 1 from two weeks ago. This week, I cover the all-important issue of "unbricking": what to do when you mess something up and the plug doesn't boot any more. Which happens quite a lot when you're getting started with plugs.

Here it is: Un-Bricking Linux Plug Computers: uBoot, iBoot, We All Boot for uBoot.

If you want more exhaustive detail, particular on those uBoot scripts and how they work, I go through some of the details in a brain-dump I wrote after two weeks of struggling to unbrick my first GuruPlug: Building and installing a new kernel for a SheevaPlug. But don't worry if that page isn't too clear; I'll cover the kernel-building part more clearly in my next LinuxPlanet article on Feb. 24.

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