Talk:The LinkStation firmware flasher

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Testing freelink images on LS2 i found out a lot of details on the flashing process. I don't know if this applies to LS1, HG, Kuro, TS as well, so I decided to put my knowledge in this discussion aerea:

We have two ways of flashing: EM mode and normal mode. This is true only for normal mode on my LS2:

Flashing the image.dat to hda1 from Windows needs at least the follwing requirements:

1. idtinfo loaded to create /proc/linkstation

root@FL060727:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
idtinfo                12428   0  (unused)

if idtinfo is not loaded do (ignore warnings this a license problem)

root@FL060727:~# insmod idtinfo
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20_mipsel_linkstation/idtinfo.o
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20_mipsel_linkstation/idtinfo.o will taint the       kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module idtinfo loaded, with warnings

2. apservd must be executeable. If he is not, do a changemod and start it:

root@FL060727:~# chmod +x /etc/init.d/apservd
root@FL060727:~# ls -la /etc/init.d/apservd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1286 Jul 29 23:20 /etc/init.d/apservd
root@FL060727:~# /etc/init.d/apservd start
Start services: ls_servd on eth0

ls_servd is triggerd by starting apservd. ls_servd is opening a port on your LS2:

root@FL060727:~# netstat -a
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
...
udp        0      0 *:22936                 *:*
...

if you can't see this open port, the flasher won't be able to find your box.

3. Some scripts must be in the right place on your box. As I did not sort out those scripts which are essential to the flashing process, I was copying all scripts to hda1:

root@FL060727:~# ls -la /www/script/*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root    4 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/Yes
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   32 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/dobackup.sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  206 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/index.htm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  528 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_check_ip.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  759 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_disk_rebuild.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1764 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_disk_repair.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2056 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_filepath.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2285 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_flash.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  876 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_init.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7801 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_mkprintfilter.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  828 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_shutdown.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  572 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_shutdown2.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   99 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/melsub_tmpclean.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2824 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/ref_lpr_filter_info.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  932 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_delshare_base.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  766 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_hdd_check_detail.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  763 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_hdd_check_normal.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1880 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_hdd_format.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  705 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_hdd_format_usb.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2542 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_ip.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   46 Dec 21  2004 /www/script/set_printer_queue.sh

/www/script/melsub_flash.sh must be in place. I extracted this script from the openlink 0.52b image

- /www/script/melsub_shutdown2.sh [found in openlink 0.52b]

- /www/script/melsub_filepath.sh [found in openlink 0.52b]

- running ls_servd on eth0, triggerd by "apservd start"

- an open port at udp:22936, opened by ls_servd