No access to goflex net

Hi,

I did the Debian installation like it is described in the tutorial. Everything worked fine. But during the installation I got a lot of errors like "corrupt file system" after a reboot I have no access because I can not find any IP address for the device on the DHCP server. When I switch on the device I get some green blinking LED after some secounds it is a yellow blinking LED (with or without the stick) I also reseted the device but it makes no diffence.

I have a goflex net and did the installation on a usb stick.

I am very new in this forum, what can I do to get again access to my goflex net. Do I have to use his serial connection? What does this mean?

Thanks

joho

Hi,

I have the same problem like you.
I tried to install debian on a USB Stick using Jeffs script, not with the updated Version from shyd because i found this later after the problem appears.
At the Installation process there are some downloading failures and i canceled the script.
What i was thinking is that my network connection was lost and i restartet my goflex net.
A other point was that i was thinking that the goflex will boot the pogoplug (original os) from the nand.

But now my box will only blinking amber. What can i do??


Please guys help us!

Did you capture the log of what was showing on the screen? It would be very helpful to know at which point the error occurred, and when you cancelled the script.

Hallo,
here is my installation log.

To me it looks like the bootloader installed fine but the script failed when setting up rootfs. Which means that the device is not bricked. You just need to put a working rootfs with uImage and uInitrd on your thumb drive and GoFlex Net should boot.

Ok that sounds great that it is not bricked.
But iam very new on all these stuff. Can you post a link or the steps that i have to do to put a rootfs with uImage and uinitrd on a usb with linux.
An where i get the file to do this.

thanks

Hi,

ich have tried to get more informations using a usb-to-serial connection.
But i can only see strange character.
I tried this on a mac and windows but i get the same result.

Hi Guys,

i have solved my proplem doing the following steps.

1. downloading the archlinux ArchLinuxARM-armv5te-latest.tar.gz from http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-net on a linux pc
2. format a usb-stick with one ext2 partition and mountet the partition to /mnt
   

     $: mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt  

3. extract the tar ball to /mnt

     $: tar xzf ArchLinuxARM-armv5te-latest.tar.gz /mnt  

4. unmount the drive

     umount /mnt  

5. plug the arch usb-stick into the USB-port on the goflex net and poweron the system
   
   
   The system in now booting and i will be able to connect using ssh
   After that i putted a usb-hub between the goflex an the usb-stick that i can connect a second usb-drive on which i will be able to install debian.
6. ssh root@10.0.0.6 #password: root
7. download the installation script
   

     $: cd /tmp && wget http://dev.shyd.de/dockstar/dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh && chmod +x dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh  

8. connect the target usb drive to the usb hub and looking for his devicename

     $: dmesg  

9. replace the SWAP_DEV and ROOT_DEV in the script with my target devicename /dev/sdb1 -> ROOT_DEV and /dev/sdb2 -> SWAP_DEV
10. run the installation script and follow the instruction

      $: ./dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh  

11. after installation shutdown the system an disconnected the Archlinux-usb-stick and usb-hub and plug the debian usbstick directly to the goflex
12. my system is now booting debian in a charm way

Thank to all helping me to understand whats happening to my box.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/2012 03:39AM by newgordan.