I have a Pogoplug V4 A3 01 with serial port, with very recent uBoot and a running OpenWRT in flash. I have now spent a very long time building a boot USB for Debian following the countless recipes posted on this forum. I also have a very old Raspberry running current Debian which I use for some of the building, but it is a different architecture frm the Pogo. First I spent a long time configuring a recent build 6.7.5 (or was it 6.5.7 or 7.6.5????). The Pogo did boot, but stopped with a kernel panic.

Then I went for something smaller and simpler??? Bodhi`s Debian 4.14.180 The assembling porcess was simpler, without errors. However the Pogo boots, appears to load a kernel and the ramfs, but then hangs with no further output. I have tried with the pre-existing uEnv.txt (from the 6.xxx) and without. My guess is bad load/execute addresses? I attach printenv and booting console output. Thanks, Chris

frankenstein3,

> architecture frm the Pogo. First I spent a long
> time configuring a recent build 6.7.5 (or was it
> 6.5.7 or 7.6.5????). The Pogo did boot, but
> stopped with a kernel panic.

If you created the rootfs correctly then it will boot without problem. Use Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 and follow the instruction closely. Don't substitute any command with what you think is equivalent.

Things like being root and use a single Ext3 partition are important.

>
> Then I went for something smaller and simpler???
> Bodhi`s Debian 4.14.180

No need to use the old rootfs/kernel.

Please post the serial boot log here if you cannot boot all the way into Debian.

-bodhi
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