I’m glad to see you worked it out, I think before long it will be really easy to flash the plug. But the first time I did it I spent hours and hours trying to set up nfs and tftp.

Bradford

thanks for the help, I finally managed to fix it. I was actually getting stuck at the bubt part, where you have to flash the whole thing, after excessive googleing I stunbled across this: http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/SheevaPlug_Installer
Literally all you have to do is put the stuff on a FAT32 usb stick, plug it into the plug and run the script prvided via a linux box and wait … thats it =)
Thx again for your help man!
W.

Good luck with that. I’m sorry, I don’t know of any such command to reset your variables. You should be good, as long as your tftp settings are set correctly on the plug (they’re not called that, I think it’s ‘set serverip’ or something to set up what your tftp server ip is). The instructions for that is in the documentation package. Once you get it to upgrade u-boot (using the bubt command I think) from tftp you’re golden, as the rest of the steps involve plugging in a usb drive and a couple other commands.

Cheers for that, will give it a try now, and yeah, i noticed that tftp servers a massive pain in the arse …
Thanks again for that link!

Since I installed they have made an easier way to install the kernel on the device. And really, mine was bricked again, and I was not looking forward to installing the kernel again. It involves a tftp and nfs server and is a royal pain in the butt – maybe not if you’re an expert but I’m not really.

But good news, they have a USB recovery package that makes it REALLY easy to re-flash your kernel. It entails updating our u-boot to support USB flashing, then flashing the image directly from a USB drive. You can download the instructions at http://openplug.org/index.php/resources/downloads (openplug.org changes a lot, so if that link doesn’t work go to openplug.org and find downloads). The USB recovery is under “SheevaPlug Software & Design Information – Revision 1.2″ and is called “SheevaPlug_USB-Recovery1.2″. The pdf in that zip file is very good and will guide you in upgrading your u-boot (you do need a tftp server to do that) and then using a simple flash drive to install your kernel. I’ve done it twice and its very easy.

can you please post HOW you reinstalled Ubuntu on it?
I made the same mistake of upgrading the dist. and now its kinda bricked … I can talk to the plug via putty, but I dont know what to do from there, or from where to get the right Ubuntu image.

Thanks man!
W.