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 area:
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. All 3 Windows applications which came with your Linkstatation (HD-HLAN FWUpdate.exe, IPSetup.exe and LsBackup.exe) are using this open UDP port to communicate with your Linkstation.
3. Some scripts must be in the right place on your box. As I did not sort out those scripts, which are really 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
At least melsub_flash.sh, melsub_shutdown2.sh and melsub_filepath.sh are needed by the flasher
If these requirements are met, I was able to use the flasher and put new images to my box. There's still much to be done, as at the moment the flashing procedure always ends up with an error message: Attempt to ... has failed. Nevertheless my box was always working.
