Hacking Linkstation Live
The other weekend I went out and bought one of the Buffalo Linkstation Live NAS boxes to play with. I got the Linkstation Live drive because the Kuro Box is currently out of stock and is almost identical in hardware to the Linkstation Live. I wanted to have a fun little hackable box to play with at my house.
Well this project was definitely not as easy as I would have thought. I bricked my Linkstation Live like 5 times. The box would only boot up to the Emergency Mode. Thank god for the Buffalo NAS wiki because they provided me with all the information I needed to get the box up and running again.
Using the instructions I found out how to install a Debian os on my system, boot up the system into EM mode, and recover the box with the default os. Listed below is a list of links from the wiki that I found most helpful with hacking the Linkstation Live v2 box.
I did figure out a neat little tick on how to get a bigger root partition on the box. I will have to wright up how to do that later.
I've just installed Mediatomb on my Linkstation Live 500Gb it ran for some minutes and then the LS started beebing and stopt.
with ACP_Commander I'm able to telnet into the LS and get the promt sh-2.05b#
when I do a disk free command I get the following data:
sh-2.05b# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root.old 13.0M 10.9M 2.1M 84% /
/dev/ram1 15.0M 452.0k 14.6M 3% /mnt/ram
/dev/ls_disk1_1 281.0M 14.5M 252.0M 5% /boot
Is there a simple way to get the LS back in normal situation ?
Thanks in advance
Willy Verbiest
willy.verbiest@telenet.be
Posted by 78.21.46.101 on October 04, 2008 at 04:32 PM EDT #