[ale] kuro-box pro

[Raylynn Knight]

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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