Well, I don't have a serial cable handy, so I guess I'll have to look into that. This system was working fine, until the hard drive started failing. I was trying to reinstall on a replacement drive, and ran into all these issues.by agiorgio - Debian
Well, I tried two different rootfs from that thread (Debian-3.12.13-oxnas-tld-5-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 and Debian-3.17.0-oxnas-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2). Neither one got my system on the network. I also tried varkey's rootfs (debian-rootfs-pogopro-varkey.tar.gz), and that produced a strange error regarding the MAC address for the network interface.by agiorgio - Debian
Well, I tried both Debian rootfs' from the first post (3.12.13 and 3.17.0), and neither one is letting me on the network. I'd like to update my uboot, but I can't do so unless I get a shell on the system. I also tried varkey's rootfs, but that didn't seem to accept the changes I made to the /etc/network/interfaces file for the MAC address. The very end of the log shby agiorgio - Debian
I don't remember what version of uBoot is installed on this box. It's probably rather old, since I haven't played with it in a year or two, but I don't recall if it was upgraded when I did the initial installation. Perhaps I should try an older rootfs and see if that helps? Here's the contents of /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback ifaby agiorgio - Debian
Well, I'm not trying to reuse an existing rootfs. I have a a Kirkwood PogoPlug on my network already, but that's running Debian Jesse. The oxnas one is supposed to be elsewhere for off-site backup purposes. I renamed the existing two udev rules files, but they aren't getting regenerated. I looked at the dmesg file, and there's no mention of any network device. Theby agiorgio - Debian
I'm trying to reinstall my PogoPlug Pro, and I'm having difficulty getting network access to it. I installed the 3.17 rootfs to a 2TB drive, and the system seems to be booting successfully. If I pull the drive and connect it to another system, I can see the /var/log/dmesg file being updated correctly. However, I can't seem to find out the IP address of the system. I don'tby agiorgio - Debian
The plug was running Debian Squeeze, and I replaced the root filesystem on the USB hard disk with shv's Wheezy one. That seemed to work perfectly. It's been a while since I hacked that plug to run Debian, and I don't remember exactly what I did. I'll probably end up just leaving it alone, since I'm just using it as a remote backup device.by agiorgio - Debian
I decided to upgrade this pogoplug to Debian Wheezy, and I wanted to setup the netconsole while I'm working on it. However, I didn't know if I should run fw_setenv with that ominous message.by agiorgio - Debian
I decided to play around with my other Pogoplug - this one is a non-PCI Pro model. I noticed that when I run fw_printenv, I get an ominous error message: Warning: Bad CRC, using default environment bootcmd=bootp; setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=${serverip}:${rootpath} ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gatewayip}:${netmask}:${hostname}::off; bootm bootdelay=5 baudrate=115200 I don't hby agiorgio - Debian
I'm starting to think that this isn't a problem with finding the rootfs, but more of an issue with talking to the disk from U-Boot. I created a new filesystem with the rootfs tarball, and I can't seem to boot of the disk. I keep getting timeout errors in my netconsole log. USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for stoby agiorgio - Debian
I don't have a log, but I'm willing to start over with a clean Debian install. I'm willing to do anything short of destroying the data partition on that drive. Could I just create a new ext3/ext4 fs and untar a Debian rootfs onto it? If so, do you have a link to a Debian Squeeze taball I can use?by agiorgio - Debian
Okay - I did some more tweaking to the HDD in order to try and boot off of it. I repartitioned it, and now the rootfs is /dev/sda1. I copied the existing working partition from my USB stick to the HDD, and added a swap partition at /dev/sda2. When I try to boot off the disk, however, I get the following U-Boot error messages: 2261056 bytes read in 244 ms (8.8 MiB/s) EHCI timed out on TDby agiorgio - Debian
Okay - made some more progress. I rebooted the Pogoplug back to the U-Boot interface, and left both USB devices plugged in. I was able to scan both of them, and correctly see all the partitions. The hard disk was device 0, and the flash drive was device 1. I did see some odd behavior when rebooting and playing around with the disk. At one point it was detected as having 512-byte sectors, rby agiorgio - Debian
Thanks for the help so far. I changed the partition label and the filesystem label on the third partion to be "rootfs". That partition is a clone of the one I am currently booting off of. I used a gparted live CD to perform a copy+paste of it from the flash drive to the hard disk. I also expanded it from 2GB to 20GB. How does UBIFS look for partitions? I poked around in U-Boot vby agiorgio - Debian
Okay - I'm making progress here, but I'm still short of my original goal. I've successfully installed the latest 2.8.2 rescue system, as well as flashing the newest U-Boot image. I'm able to boot my system into Debian fine with just my 2GB USB stick installed, but I can't boot it with my 3TB drive. I did not create a hybrid MBR - is that required for booting a large diby agiorgio - Debian
Well, I tried upgrading the U-Boot using the automated script, but it seems that I have the latest version as per that method. However, it's still a number of years old. I'm now trying to boot directly off a 20GB ext3 partition on my 3TB drive, but I'm having no luck. Any suggestions? U-Boot 2011.12 (Feb 20 2012 - 21:21:59) Pogoplug E02 arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcerby agiorgio - Debian
I just installed 2.8.2 on my Pogoplug E02. I was able to successfuly boot into rescue via netconsole.by agiorgio - Rescue System
That worked perfectly! I had tried to get the "rootfs" trick working in the past, but apparently I had the wrong usb_init string. I've just rebooted it a half dozen times just to prove to myself that this actually works! My next trick is to get it booting off the 3TB drive. The USB stick only has ~400 MB of free space left, and I'd like to take it out of the equation entby agiorgio - Debian
So I have a Pogoplug E02 that I'm running as a low-cost NAS device. I ran the script from here and successfully installed Debian onto a 2GB ext3 USB stick about a year ago. I also have a 3TB USB hard disk with GPT and an ext4 filesystem. This setup runs reasonably well, except I keep running into the same problem that others have on this forum - the USB hard drive gets enumerated first onby agiorgio - Debian