Hi Bodi, Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your help. I was able to save it from being landfill. For the first time, I learned to connect serial console, edit rcS file, setting up, editing and saving environment in past few days. Not really worth my time money wise but it came up as a learning challenge that I couldn't lose LOL :) Now it has samba and transmission running. I have backed upby virtual - Debian
Thanks Bodi, man! you came to help right away. Yes, I don't really care about usb boot as I need usb port to connect hard drives anyway. I did exactly as you said. It worked well. I am posting my output just for future reference to help other people. I will try to install samba and other packages on it now. One question, should I try to fix things in pogoplug to make it bootable if sdcaby virtual - Debian
WITH ROOTFS USB ATTACHED, IT BOOTS. U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:34:01 -0700) Pogoplug V4 SoC: Kirkwood 88F6192_A1 DRAM: 128 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 128 MiB MMC: MVEBU_MMC: 0 In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: egiga0 Using egiga0 device ARP Retry count exceeded; starting again ping failed; host 192.168.1.100 is not alive Hit anyby virtual - Debian
THIS IS PRINTENV COMMAND OUTPUT U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:34:01 -0700) Pogoplug V4 SoC: Kirkwood 88F6192_A1 DRAM: 128 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 128 MiB MMC: MVEBU_MMC: 0 In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: egiga0 Using egiga0 device ARP Retry count exceeded; starting again ping failed; host 192.168.1.100 is not alive Hit any key toby virtual - Debian
WITHOUT ROOTFS USB ATTACHED U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:34:01 -0700) Pogoplug V4 SoC: Kirkwood 88F6192_A1 DRAM: 128 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 128 MiB MMC: MVEBU_MMC: 0 In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: egiga0 Using egiga0 device ARP Retry count exceeded; starting again ping failed; host 192.168.1.100 is not alive Hit any key to stby virtual - Debian
I am in desperate need to get help regarding this. I had previously installed an ARCH system on a pogoplug 4 successfully. I purchased another pogoplug off the ebay. It came used and bricked unfortunately. I got refund though so no worries there but seller didnt want it back. I got curious. I established a serial connection to it. From research here I found out previous owner tried to flash oby virtual - Debian