[ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

[Jim Hawkins]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote:

> > The spin-up timeout in u-boot is set to 5 seconds, which seems a bit 
> > low - the specs for my drive say the typical drive ready time is 13s. 
> > I've increased the timeout to 30s and now it seems to work reliably.
> 
> If this works well can you upload the .bin to bourbon please and I'll
> distribute that instead of the one we have atm.

Why not compile your own u-boot binaries? I need to tidy up my changes, 
but I can give you my patches.

> Yours does have te ext2 support?

Yes. I'm booting my kernel from an ext2 formatted partition on an eSATA 
disk.

Cheers,

Jim