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Pogoplug not booting into debian

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kbfirebreather
Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 15, 2013 12:46PM
Following the guide here: http://projects.doozan.com/debian/

Using debian squeeze.

The thing will not boot from USB no matter how many times I pull the plug, reinstall to the usb stick, or which USB stick I use. I've tried 3 different USB sticks including one that the POGO was previously using.

I'm at a loss and will be grateful to anyone able to offer any insight.

This all started when I SSH'd into the POGO and gave a reboot command. The device wouldn't boot from USB then, but also wouldn't boot into the POGO OS. Ever since formatting and installing,and all my attempts, it just boots into POGO OS.
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bodhi
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 15, 2013 05:06PM
Which Pogoplug do you have? Did you keep the installation log?
If you can log in to Pogo OS, I'd suggest to install netconsole first (you can see more info about the problem):
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,14
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kbfirebreather
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 16, 2013 08:20AM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JOLX0I/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Where do I get the Installation log?

Edit:

Attempting another install on an identical USB stick that was previously running Debian on the pogo and this happens during install:

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./dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh
...
...
...
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
mkswap: can't open '/dev/sda2': No such device or address
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /tmp/debian failed: Invalid argument
Could not mount /dev/sda1 on /tmp/debian
Pogoplug:/tmp$ sudo fdisk -l
-bash: sudo: command not found
Pogoplug:/tmp$ fdisk -l
Pogoplug:/tmp$ fdisk -l
Pogoplug:/tmp$ umount /dev/sda1
umount: cannot umount /dev/sda1: Invalid argument

It seems the USB just dissapears after it fails on the install during Writing superblocks?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2013 08:25AM by kbfirebreather.
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bodhi
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 16, 2013 05:40PM
Pogo21 could be different type (OXNAS vs. Kirkwood). In Pogo OS prompt run this command:
uname -a
and post output here.
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kbfirebreather
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 16, 2013 07:10PM
Ran the command and here is the output:
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login as: root
root@192.168.1.147's password:
Pogoplug:~$ uname -a
Linux Pogoplug 2.6.22.18 #81 Tue Oct 19 16:05:00 PDT 2010 armv5tejl unknown
Pogoplug:~$
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bodhi
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 16, 2013 08:36PM
Try unplug the USB stick and plug it back in. Check to see if it was detected:
dmesg

If it was then
fdisk -l
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kbfirebreather
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 16, 2013 09:12PM
It does get detected if I do that. Attached is what I Could get from dmesg. I tried outputting it to a file and ftping in to get the entire dmesg output...but connection refused on ftp.

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Pogoplug:/tmp$ dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt
Pogoplug:/tmp$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 4004 MB, 4004511744 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 255 980189 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 256 1017 2929128 82 Linux swap
Pogoplug:/tmp$
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bodhi
Re: Pogoplug not booting into debian
June 16, 2013 10:43PM
Was uBoot installation part done successfully?

You could take the stick to another Linux box, and try to format it to make sure it is good. dmesg showed errors with the stick.
You can rerun the installation again with another USB stick. If uBoot was installed OK then it will detect that and skip it. But respond to the question to restore envs with YES.

In any case, pls post the complete log here so we can see what was going on.

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