Dear Dustrega,
I was very busy on work the whole May so I had only today the opportunity to check out your proposed solution.
What I did:
I chose the "big" solution:
- Stripping down the LSL to nuts and bits.
- Connecting the disk by using a USB-Bridge to my notebook.
- Booting my notebook with a live Linux (Knoppix) from a DVD.
- So I got access to all folders on the LSL's disk and I could save all data.
This might be a hint to access the data besides consulting a 3rd party professional.
- Low level formatting the complete disk to take care that all potentially inaccurate firmware
code and maybe a potentially faulty boot sector would be removed.
- Preparing my notebook for a TFTP boot and connecting the LSL directly to my notebook's
LAN port.
- Performing a TFTP boot according your FAQ 3.
- Preparing the firmware update according your FAQ 2.
Against your FAQ 2 I also checked the checkboxes 'Rebuild partition table' and
'Delete user-config'.
- First time the LSL broke down with the well-known fan error.
- Second time I used a hair blower (my wife has one where one could switch off the heating
function) for cooling the board to avoid a fan error a second time.
- After arround 10 minutes and after several automatic reboots the firmware updater showed
SUCCESS
This procedure might be also the right one for changing the hard disk to a new one.
Now I reassembled the LSL, reconfigured it and I agonized it with copying the safed data back.
What shall I say?
After arround 5 minutes a hurricane started running threw my office ;-).
It came from the LSL's fan!
No it was no hurricane - one could not hear it. One could only detect it by beaming the fan with a torch light.
The only thing I must critisize is that the power supply has no composition resistors installed for eliminating the charge of the capacitors and the inductivity of the inductors.
I swear, the LSL was disconnected from the outlet jack more than 12 hours but touching (while stripping down the LSL) the power supply although forced me perorming a very funny dance in my office.
Nevertheless I'm glad because no it works very well again - hopefully for a long long time!
Message Edited by Pivo on 05-31-2009 08:04 PM