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Dockstar suddenly started booting to Pogoplug after several years

Posted by rwong48 
Dockstar suddenly started booting to Pogoplug after several years
January 24, 2016 03:09AM
Hello,

Like many of you, I picked up a Dockstar over 5 years ago to run as a lightweight Unix box. I followed the guide at http://projects.doozan.com/debian/ and all was well. I was always able to boot to my flash drive on startup.

Starting about a week or so ago, I wasn't able to log in. I realized that it was booted to Pogoplug, and I could log in with root/stxadmin. The phone-home stuff was still commented out. The flash drive and the partition table seem intact. Uboot was still there (although it's quite old)

## Valid uBoot detected: [dockstar davygravy-2012-02-12-current]
## The newest uBoot is already installed on mtd0.

# uBoot installation has completed successfully.

Has anyone heard about this or have any clues on how to boot back to my Debian drive? I wouldn't mind starting fresh either, but I can't even get that to work. When I try to run the script to install Debian nowadays, everything is pretty much broken because Wheezy and Squeeze don't fully exist on the internet any more, or aren't supported?

I have to remove --no-check-gpg from the debootstrap call, and then I make it this far:

# Starting debootstrap installation
E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/wheezy
debootstrap failed.
See /tmp/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for more information.

Squeeze gets further, attempting to download all of the packages, then failing.
Re: Dockstar suddenly started booting to Pogoplug after several years
January 24, 2016 07:43AM
rwong48 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Hello,
>
> Like many of you, I picked up a Dockstar over 5
> years ago to run as a lightweight Unix box. I
> followed the guide at
> http://projects.doozan.com/debian/ and all was
> well. I was always able to boot to my flash drive
> on startup.
>
> Starting about a week or so ago, I wasn't able to
> log in. I realized that it was booted to Pogoplug,
> and I could log in with root/stxadmin. The
> phone-home stuff was still commented out. The
> flash drive and the partition table seem intact.
> Uboot was still there (although it's quite old)
>
> ## Valid uBoot detected: [dockstar
> davygravy-2012-02-12-current]
> ## The newest uBoot is already installed on mtd0.
>
> # uBoot installation has completed successfully.
>
> Has anyone heard about this or have any clues on
> how to boot back to my Debian drive? I wouldn't
> mind starting fresh either, but I can't even get
> that to work. When I try to run the script to
> install Debian nowadays, everything is pretty much
> broken because Wheezy and Squeeze don't fully
> exist on the internet any more, or aren't
> supported?
>
> I have to remove --no-check-gpg from the
> debootstrap call, and then I make it this far:
>
> # Starting debootstrap installation
> E: No such script:
> /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/wheezy
> debootstrap failed.
> See /tmp/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for
> more information.
>
> Squeeze gets further, attempting to download all
> of the packages, then failing.

Latest kenel and rootfs:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096

Latest u-boot:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381

-bodhi
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2016 07:51AM by bodhi.
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