Hi guys! I hope everyone is safe and healthy. I know it is not exactly the answer you guys are working toward - but I have had no trouble boots since moving my rootfs usb plug to the one closest to the Cat5 port. I am now moving on to my next pogoplug adventure. I am trying to backup my big 1 tb drive and come up with a regular backup schedule etc. But I am having troubles wiby tcatone - Debian
Thanks guys. Learning a lot here. I booted up with another USB plugged in up front and everything booted fine. Playing around with that I decided to move around my rootfs usb. It was plugged in the back of the pogoplug in the top slot. I moved it around to the bottom slot and plugged in a couple of other drives including "Hitch" and it boots just fine now. Hitch is the eveby tcatone - Debian
Bodhi - thanks again for all your help and I know I feel like I am asking silly questions. But yes - I do not have any other partitions with the label "bootfs". root@debian:~# blkid /dev/sda1: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="962ccb6d-4595-489d-a74a-2000531debf2" TYPE="ext3" PARTUUID="0310c6a6-01" /dev/sdb: UUID="D8BB-2AFF" TYPE="exfaby tcatone - Debian
NEW BONUS QUESTION So 2 days ago - I swear - unless I am really losing my mind or my sanity or all three... I plugged my favorite 128gb usb drive in and copied a movie (big buck bunny-of course) to my 1tb external hard drive. I did this before autofs was working so I must have mounted it by hand?... Today - I added it to the auto.misc file to give it a known mount point and no go...by tcatone - Debian
Extra Credit Help You have helped me a lot along this journey. I know we will get the boot issue solved. But meanwhile - Anyone have some quick answers for these: 1. Can I use the pogoplug to do hard drive repair (fschk or ??) Is it wise or is the ‘plug underpowered for the job. 2. Can I use the ‘plug for copying or backing up one partition on one drive to another drive? Like uby tcatone - Debian
Mornin' Bodhi, Thanks again for all of your help and I appreciate all the kindness. I read up on bootargs and I understand in principal but certainly only vaguely. I tried your command: fw_setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts But the command is looking for a ' to close. So I might have botched it whilby tcatone - Debian
Alright be nice - I am new here. Still learning... Seems I should know what to do with this posting and all but... I am going to just post what I get my dmesg starts like this... [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.4.54-oxnas-tld-1 (root@tldDebian) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10) ) #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 18 23:09:58 PDT 2017 [ 0.000by tcatone - Debian
Success!!! I think I rounded the corner on the Autofs way to do this! Here is the working contents of my /etc/auto.misc file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage blue1 -fstype=auto,sync,noatime UUID=443F7B407388A63B blue2 -fstypeby tcatone - Debian
Just some more info... Here is my blkid info for a drive I'd like to mount /dev/sdb5: LABEL="UserData" UUID="A8EE8F06EE8ECC4E" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="16275324-247c-4670-889b-1e8beb02fa61" using the following mount commands with UUID or PartUUID's does not work (tried with and without " since I saw it both ways in the various forums) Stby tcatone - Debian
Oh and.... The one thing I really need to learn to fix - I can not boot my pogoplug with any external drives powered up or it boot loops. The only thing I can figure is it gets confused on where the rootfs is located? Is there a primary or first USB slot it looks for it? Maybe I need to plug it in there? I have it in the top one on the back. Or I was trying uuid labels in fstab... butby tcatone - Debian
Good morning, Dinking around with this in my free time. But I thought I'd update what I learned. To restart autofs - this works great - thanks! /etc/init.d/autofs restart I have tried a bunch of different things just to see if any worked. hammer -fstype=vfat,sync,noatime :UUID="14F6-3A66" /hammer -fstype=vfat,sync,noatime :UUID="by tcatone - Debian
Thanks Bodhi, I will read up on udev tomorrow. But I did try a little... I created a file /etc/auto.usb #test file added by TC - used by autofs to mount hard drives hammer -fstype=vfat,sync,noatime :UUID="14F6-3A66" and I added this line in auto.master /media /etc/auto.usb BTW - I am expecting a mount of /media/hammer A power cycle gets me intoby tcatone - Debian
Bodhi - thanks for answering. I am learning so much. Okay - I need a little clarification... slow learner. Sync is more important (power can be iffy here...) Can I use uuid for the external drives? That is what was exciting. Since otherwise they are assigned in order they are plugged in? So can I put this code in /etc/auto.usb hammer -fstype=vfat,sync,noatime :UUID=&qby tcatone - Debian
Hi all. Thanks for all of the help. I am really learning a lot. Since "Unbrick Pogoplug" is really done - I am going to mark this solved and ask the automount question in a second thread. For those that want to follow on - the new question is here: https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,97669 Thanks Bodhi and everyone else for teaching me and getting me this far. TCby tcatone - uBoot
Hi again - I started a new thread since - really the initial issue is SOLVED!! https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,95949,95949#msg-95949 Thanks for all your help. To refresh - I have a PogoPlug Pro running Linux debian 4.4.54-oxnas Now moving on to my current question and learning experience. I am trying to find a way to automatically mount some of my normal USB hard drives. Iby tcatone - Debian
Okay - still in over my depth. I can't remember where - but to clarify I am running Linux debian 4.4.54-oxnas-tld-1 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 18 23:09:58 PDT 2017 armv6l I installed autofs ... I read the .conf file and... I googled examples... But it is all over my head. For some reason now I am really liking the idea of setting up, ahead of time, mount points for the 4 different exby tcatone - uBoot
Hi again, Things seem to be working fairly well here. I use Windows Explorer and no app to login to my samba shares. My samba password is not equal to my root password - so even trapping my samba password with a MITM or any exploit won't actually get you my true root user password. But I am still working to find other plans. Speaking of other plans. - I am working on my power faiby tcatone - uBoot
Wow - Our posts must have crossed in the night. chown -R admin:admin /share/hitch Now that is the elegant solution I was looking for. I am going to stay logged in as root. Reason being - I can plug any drive into the back and mount it - and it is instantly available to all devices with saved credentials. Risk of being logged in as root inside Samba seems low. Ironically - the remoby tcatone - uBoot
Mark this down as AN answer - but probably not the right answer... So I have it working. I updated my smb.conf file and added root as a user valid users = @admin @root Then I added root as a user, gave it a password, enabled it and restarted Samba: root@debian:/share# smbpasswd -a root New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Added user root. root@debian:/share# smbpasby tcatone - uBoot
Thanks so much for spending time on this. I feel really close. Here is my current smb.conf file. #Here is my Bare Samba file path = /share/hitch # path = /local/sshare # used to test read/write of files on boot usb browseable = yes read only = no socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=$ create mode = 777 directory modeby tcatone - uBoot
One more thing... I have confirmed something... I created a share inside the boot USB drive. I mounted it in Linux and it was read only. I ran the code Koen suggested root@debian:/local# chmod -R 777 sshare/ and the local boot USB becomes read/write. 1000001101000 - I guess I don't have a smbpasswd . I added a user (admin) and password root@debian:~# smbpasswd -aby tcatone - uBoot
Okay - latest update. I rebuilt from scratch another USB. I did learn that I could have restored my previous fstab by editing the USB on my linux laptop - but at that point I wanted to use a different USB anyway since the other was one of my favorites and I was worried that some of my failed attempts might be "gunking" up the setup. Anyway - I changed around some file paths butby tcatone - uBoot
Thanks Koen and Bodhi too. Well - I am starting back at 0. I agree that it is file permissions. I setup some share (accidentally) on the boot usb and that share is read/write accessible. I never did customize my fstab file and always just mounted the external drive manually from cli. With that - I always had to unplug my external during reboot or it would fail to boot. Not sure whyby tcatone - uBoot
Okay That is a lot of intel too. I tried to get the example to work but I am not sure what 1/2 of it is doing. So I am back to starting simple. I now have this as my smb.conf file and things are 75% there now. path = /share/sdb1 browseable = yes read only = no force create mode = 0660 force directory mode = 2770 valid users = @admin I creaby tcatone - uBoot
Okay okay. I am learning a lot here... but I am stuck again. Samba installed - done USB drive mounted - done I have tried several sample samba files out there on the web and I am reading it all but... it is just not getting me anywhere and I am not exactly smart enough. I currently have ONLY this for my samba.conf file and it seems to be working more than anything else. workby tcatone - uBoot
WOW - this is over my head... but read twice and type once... and it seems to be working. I mean I am learning along the way so some of it made sense but... damn you're smart. I did the update and everything seems to be working there. It did indeed tell me "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.54-oxnas-tld-1" so I did regenerate the uInitrd boot file. So itby tcatone - uBoot
I am starting to see maybe I can just write a USB in my Manjaro PC and plug the stick in? Any thoughts on how I can do that? Okay - I have followed the old steps to write the usb and I think I have it figured out to just be using my laptop to write teh files. But looks like the source of the old files has moved. So - can I use newer files? Are we guessing that the plug is in "Ubby tcatone - uBoot
A few years ago... I followed this blog http://blog.qnology.com/2015/04/hacking-pogoplug-v3oxnas-proclassic.html that details your uBoot install on pogoplugs and had it all setup. Time went by and dust gathered... And now I have a need again - but I can't find the USB that I made for this setup. So now it doesn't exactly boot. I am a newbie or at least only know what I know..by tcatone - uBoot