[ale] kuro-box pro

[Raylynn Knight]

OK, I've now played with the KuroBox Pro a little more.  Holding down
the Initialize switch on the back produces a beep and shortly
thereafter the internal SATA drive was formatted as XFS and mounted:

~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mtd2                64.0M     15.6M     48.4M  24% /
/dev/ram1                 8.0M    344.0k      7.7M   4% /mnt/ram
/dev/mtd3               188.0M      4.3M    183.7M   2% /mnt/mtd
/dev/sda1               465.6G      1.8M    465.6G   0% /mnt/disk1

Both /mnt/mtd and /mnt/disk1 are available via smb and
http://192.168.11.150:901/ allows managing Samba via SWAT.  No OS is
installed on disk1 it is empty.  As you can see /mnt/mtd is made from
free space on the 256MB NAND flash.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Raylynn Knight <seca900rider at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have gotten a little further than you.  I plugged up directly to my
> desktop system (which is connected to the Internet via wireless) via
> the 100MB Ethernet and created a new network using the 192.168.11.1 IP
> address as documentation says the KuroBox will use 192.168.11.150 if
> no dhcp server is found.  I can telnet to the box (ssh not running)
> using root with the 'kuroadmin' password.  According to dmesg it can
> see both drives I have connected (1 internal SATA and 1 external SATA)
> but there doesn't appear to be anything running (via ps) that would
> detect this and format and install software.  I could at this point
> format the disks myself, but I need to go through the documentation on
> the CD that came with it first, plus I already have projects I'm in
> the middle of with a Seagate Dockstar and a Seagate GoFlex home.
>
> Ray Knight
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Charles Shapiro
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone else had luck with the Kuro-Box Pros given away last year?   I
>> obtained a brand-new 500-gb SATA hard drive and plugged it into mine,
>> but beyond that I'm confuzzled.  Allegedly, pressing the reset button
>> for 5 secs will result in a beep and then the system will format the
>> drive and install some kind of ARM9 distro on it.  Alas, the only
>> beeps I am getting out of the system are on boot and when I hold the
>> power down for 9 secs to shut it down.   It appears that it's going
>> through some kind of boot sequence, 'cause if I hold the reset button
>> down and power it on I get a different set of beeps than if I simply
>> power it on.  The machine doesn't seem to be enabling any kind of
>> TCP/IP interface, with or without access to a dhcp server.  According
>> to the doc, it should find a dhcp server or configure its eth0 to
>> 192.168.11.150 if it doesn't see one on the network.
>>
>> I found some web resources, including a wiki (
>> http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Welcome_to_the_Kurobox_Wiki
>> ). From it, I gather that you can theoretically solder a socket to a
>> UART already present on the motherboard in order to access an actual
>> console with an rs232 terminal. The pictures of the motherboard on the
>> wiki don't seem to match what I am seeing inside my box, although the
>> name and exterior pictures look good.
>>
>> -- CHS
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