Hey! What's Happened To The SheevaPlug?

Posted 01-07-2011 at 04:29 PM by brianL

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I wish I knew. I've had a few sessions with it since my last blog entry, but to no avail. I can get the Marvell prompt, but nothing else. Same results with the ARMedslack on an SDHC card as before. Tried to restore the original minimal Ubuntu with the sheevaplug-installer - no luck. And I still can't remember doing anything to mess it up to such an extent. So now it's stashed away in its nice white box in a cupboard, while I occasionally do a web search, looking for things I haven't tried yet. Ah, well...

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	That sucks... That doesn't put much confidence in me regarding Marvell... I was hoping to pick up their $100 Android Tablet that is scheduled for the end of 2011... Also, there is supposedly a new $100 plug computer coming out by Marvell. There was a little information released on it from CES.
	Posted 01-08-2011 at 12:33 PM by lumak

Hi brianL, same here with trying to get the sheeva back to it's original state. Although I have played around with it more than I should have. As you, I've tried everything I've been able to google on the darn thing. I can get it to boot up from a mmc with debian which I guess I'll have to live with but really would like to get it back to original as the mmc is sooooo slow. I'll keep a lookout for something new to try but in the meantime it's a darn good bookholder in the white box on the shelf.

regards,
bob

Posted 01-15-2011 at 09:55 AM by Bobonopolis Bobonopolis is offline

Hi bob,
So I'm not the only sheeva-sufferer?
I might have another session of messing about with it next week, if I'm in the mood.

Posted 01-15-2011 at 10:47 AM by brianL
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/7292/1/

this was posted on slashdot. hope it helps.

Posted 02-10-2011 at 03:32 PM by lumak

	Thanks, lumak. I read that yesterday, but it told me nothing new. I've tried the sheevaplug-installer, it gets to "...booting the kernel", then strings of characters & letters appear, then nothing. I've also tried manually resetting environment variables. From what I've read, sometimes it needs a few tries of the same procedure to get things to work, so I haven't given up on it yet.
	Posted 02-11-2011 at 03:54 AM by brianL

Had a go at it on Debian today. Still no luck. One of these days, everything will work out OK, and I'll drop dead with shock.

Posted 02-12-2011 at 09:00 AM by brianL
Hope you figure it out!

Posted 02-12-2011 at 11:52 AM by lupusarcanus

This is what I get, as I mentioned in my previous comment:

Quote:

"...booting the kernel", then strings of characters & letters appear

Code:

Uncompressing Linux.......................................................................................................................................................................... done, booting the kernel.
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And more of the same.

Posted 02-13-2011 at 06:41 AM by brianL brianL is offline

Updated 02-13-2011 at 06:47 AM by brianL

Hey, did you bring back alive yet?

Posted 07-05-2011 at 06:40 AM by Web31337

	No, I haven't tried since my last blog entry. But I have been thinking about it off and on during the past few days. Might have another go soon.
	Posted 07-06-2011 at 06:42 AM by brianL

good luck then

Posted 07-07-2011 at 02:21 AM by Web31337