lacie-uboot

Access your LaCie NAS's U-Boot netconsole without any hardware.

Available tools include:

• lacie-uboot-shell : A simple U-Boot netconsole client.
• lacie-nas-updater : A simple script using lacie-uboot-shell to update your system and/or bootloader.

The best way to use lacie-uboot-shell is to previously install it using :

$ sudo python setup.py install
# Then you will be able to execute lacie-uboot-shell from your path.
$ lacie-uboot-shell --help

Note: if you use the lacie-uboot tool suite outside of a standard distribution installation, you may need to specify the Python module search path with PYTHONPATH before executing the binaries:

$ export PYTHONPATH=./path/to/lacie-uboot
$ lacie-uboot-shell
Please /!\HARD/!\ reboot the device /!\NOW/!\
Marvell>>

lacie-uboot-shell : U-Boot netconsole client

For help on how to use lacie-uboot-shell, type:

$ lacie-uboot-shell --help

If you have a fancy network system, you may specify the interface you want to use with lacie-uboot-shell by setting the option -i followed by the network interface name.

lacie-uboot-shell will try to look for a free IP on your subnet, if you want to enforce the IP to set for your product, you should use the --ip option.

You may connect to your product using many different way, here are few examples :

1. You don't know the MAC of your product, then launch lacie-uboot-shell without the -m flag.

   $ lacie-uboot-shell

   Be careful, if you have multiple LaCie product on your network, the first to reboot will be catched ! It may not be yours...

2. You know the MAC and don't want to bother finding a free ip : For example, to target 00:D0:4B:00:00:00 using the default iface (eth0):

   $ lacie-uboot-shell -m 00:D0:4B:00:00:00

3. You know the MAC AND you want to enforce the IP :

   $ lacie-uboot-shell -m 00:D0:4B:00:00:00 --ip 192.168.13.37

When you are connected to your product through lacie-uboot-shell, type 'help' to receive the list of available commands.

$ lacie-uboot-shell
Marvell>> help
...

Scripting

If you happen to do a repetitive action with U-Boot, you can script that. You only need to use lacie-uboot-shell as the shebang of your script :

#!/path/to/lacie-uboot-shell

setenv serverip 192.168.13.42
setenv ipaddr 192.168.13.37
[...]
bootm

Then you can call your script like that :

$ ./myscript -m 00:D0:4B:00:00:00 -i eth3 -p

You must also put an empty line at the end of your script otherwise, the last line won't be executed.

If your script does not output anything, I recomend you to use the -p option to print a pretty progress bar.