NSLU2 Almost Set up
I got myself an NSLU2 and set NSLU2 Debian up on it. It’s working alright except that the clock battery is dead so it refuses to boot up with NTP turned on.
Because of that, I get to deal with some fun stuff like this:
pib@home ~]sudo fsck /dev/sda2 fsck 1.40.5 (27-Jan-2008) e2fsck 1.40.5 (27-Jan-2008) /dev/sda2: recovering journal /dev/sda2 has gone 13975 days without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/sda2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** /dev/sda2: 23941/3541440 files (0.9% non-contiguous), 441602/7080640 blocks
So apparently this partition, which I created 2 days ago, hasn’t been checked in over 38 years.
Also, there’s stuff like this this:
pib@home ~]ssh slug pib@slug's password: Linux slug 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx #1 Tue Feb 12 00:57:53 UTC 2008 armv5tel The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. No mail. Last login: Wed Dec 31 18:02:18 1969 from 192.168.15.177 pib@slug:~$
Yeah, I guess I’ve got to go find a new battery.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:19 am
The Slug uses a standard CR2032 cell. A handful of small change will buy a replacement, which should only take a couple of minutes to install. http://1wt.eu/articles/nslu2/ might be a good reference.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It turns out that the battery wasn’t actually dead.
When I opened up the case to remove R83 (to un-underclock it from 133MHz to 266MHz), I took the battery out and then put it back in before putting it back together.
It seems that the clock was “stuck” because it is now working as it should, even after several reboots.
That site looks like it has some handy stuff on it, though. Thanks for the comment!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
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