Failed to get uNSLUng on my cute NSLU2

Its been pending for a long time and this week I decided to upgrade my Linksys NSLU2 to unslung firmware. I already run V2.3R63 and planning to go for unslung V2.3R63-uNSLUng-6.8-beta. I started off early in the morning (around 07:00) and still having troubles in restoring it.

I followed religiously what was told in the readme.txt of the firmware. I got it flashed and when trying to unsling to my disk, I got lost. I loaded up the firmware, boot with the disks and it was very much fine showing me all the disks and shared music over samba. I reboot it without disks, enable telnet and telnet into the box with root. Now I connect the disk1 and try to unsling, it says mounted disk not found.

I reboot without the disks and connect disk1 again. I login as root and check the mounted partitions. It is shown briefly

# mount
/dev/mtdblock4 on / type jffs2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /dev.state type jffs2 (rw)
ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /var.state type jffs2 (rw)
ramfs on /var type ramfs (rw)
none on /tmp type ramfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /share/hdd/data type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb2 on /share/hdd/conf type ext3 (rw,sync)

# ls /share/hdd/data
caps lost+found public quota.user
quota.user~
# ls /share/hdd/conf
backup_sh.conf config config.bin group
group.ttt lost+found passwd
passwd.ttt server.log share share.info
share.info.ttt smb.conf smb.conf.ttt
smbpasswd smbpasswd.ttt tmp upgrade
usrgrp.info usrgrp.info.ttt

But the mount is lost after some time. Curious, I go out and check /var/log/messages.

<47>May 6 16:31:44 klogd: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
<47>May 6 16:31:44 klogd: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
<46>May 6 16:31:47 klogd: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
<44>May 6 16:31:47 klogd: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
<46>May 6 16:31:47 klogd: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,17), internal journal
<46>May 6 16:31:47 klogd: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
<46>May 6 16:31:48 klogd: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
<46>May 6 16:31:48 klogd: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,18), internal journal
<46>May 6 16:31:48 klogd: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
<46>May 6 16:31:48 klogd: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
<46>May 6 16:31:52 klogd: Adding Swap: 120480k swap-space (priority -1)
<44>May 6 16:33:07 klogd: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended

So doing a fsck now to get the disk1 in order before proceeding. It is not going to finish by today.

New blog for technical posts

Most of the times I write only technical stuff interleaved with personal life. I decided to split this and hence have opened this blog exclusively for technical posts including the new I try out from time to time. My other blog will become a pure personal blog.