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Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home

Posted by wment 
Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home
January 11, 2025 06:09PM
Hi,
I recently acquired a Goflex Home box. I also have one that I have had since new about 2015. This one is one just got when powered on the light flashes green then turns to flashing red and never stops. I have been able to ssh into my original box over ethernet but not the one just acquired. I have read lots of posts and the more I read the more confused I get. I have a RS232 FTDI cable and a PL2303 cable. I have connected 3 wires to the board for Gnd, TX and RX. Not sure where to go from here. My home computer is running Ubuntu. My goal would be to add this device to my home network for file/media sharing. It appears I will need some hand holding on this project.
Where do I start?
Thanks
WM
Re: Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home
January 11, 2025 07:57PM
At this point, I think you want to gather more info from the serial console.

Confirm from the last few lines of dmesg of your ubuntu box when you plug in the USB-serial cable the USB device, let's say it's /dev/ttyUSB0

Run as root (or some user in the dialout group)
picocom --b 115200 --f n --p n --d 8 /dev/ttyUSB0

boot up the goflex home, see if there's any message.
If nothing at all, try swap the RX and TX connections and retry.
Re: Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home
January 12, 2025 12:24PM
Either way I hook up the serial RX TX even fi not connected to the goflex I get this, time to check my connections:

picocom v3.1

port is : /dev/ttyUSB0
flowcontrol : none
baudrate is : 115200
parity is : none
databits are : 8
stopbits are : 1
escape is : C-a
local echo is : no
noinit is : no
noreset is : no
hangup is : no
nolock is : no
send_cmd is : sz -vv
receive_cmd is : rz -vv -E
imap is :
omap is :
emap is : crcrlf,delbs,
logfile is : none
initstring : none
exit_after is : not set
exit is : no


FATAL: cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: Permission denied
Re: Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home
January 12, 2025 01:00PM
Success, I was able to see the UBOOT process.
I connected the network cable and the green flashes and becomes steady, no red flashes.
Too many lines to show here.
It does not show any errors.
I get to a Login prompt, it does not respond to anything.
What message should I be looking for?
Re: Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home
January 12, 2025 01:12PM
Success, I was able to see the UBOOT process.
I connected the network cable and the green flashes and becomes steady, no red flashes.
Too many lines to show here.
This is the end of the boot process.

HipServ - boot complete
Starting spindownd.init: [ OK ]
Starting xMySyncMount.php: [ OK ]

axentraserver.localdomain login:
FATAL: read zero bytes from port
term_exitfunc: reset failed for dev UNKNOWN: Input/output error
Re: Need Help Unbricking a Goflex Home
January 12, 2025 01:45PM
wment,

What you see is the stock FW OS running. It's very old and should not be used anymore.

See the Wiki page for how to install Debian on a USB drive (or HDD):

Quote

Kirkwood plugs

Boot Kirkwood rootfs with stock u-boot

-bodhi
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