I now have everything working and I think I know what my problem was so, in case this happens to anyone else... What appears to have happened is that my two DockStars were running different versions of uBoot. Upgrading to Wheezy with a 3.2 kernel meant that the old uBoot couldn't boot it but the newer one could. The reason the older DockStar didn't boot with the disk from the nby lotus49 - Debian
Well, I was unduly pessimistic. I built the serial cable using bits and pieces I have lying around (I have a lot of computer bits and pieces and I have rightly resisted my wife's efforts to get me to chuck them all out - I knew they would be useful some time) and having a serial port made a big difference. It appears that my DockStar is booting. The first problem I had was that my Docby lotus49 - Debian
Unfortunately, using bodhi's rootfs (which appeared to boot fine on my working DockStar) didn't boot. I don't see how, but the Squeeze -> Wheezy upgrade process has clearly damaged something on the DockStar itself. It looks like it's JTAG time :-(.by lotus49 - Debian
pdecle Wrote: > > My advise: If you have a working Squeeze, don't > upgrade unless you actually backupped the USB > stick (what I luckily did). Sadly that wouldn't have helped me. Whatever has happened in my case affected the DockStar itself not the disk on which Debian is installed. When I swapped the disks around on my two DockStars, the same DockStar failed toby lotus49 - Debian
Thank you all for your prompt replies. Firstly, I do not have a serial cable, but I do have a CA42 cable that I bought with the intention of making one so I could if necessary. I did install uBoot a long time ago so it probably is an old version but I have reason to doubt whether that is the problem. I have two DockStars although one is newer than the other so it is possible that thby lotus49 - Debian
I have happily been running Squeeze on my DockStar for a couple of years. A couple of days ago I decided to upgrade to Wheezy (something I have done with other hardware on numerous occasions). The upgrade process went fine until I came to reboot. Now my DockStar will not boot either with the disk attached or not. I moved the disk to another DockStar and it boots fine so I can only presume tby lotus49 - Debian
Did you ever find out what was causing this because I am having exactly the same problem. I have been running Squeeze on my DockStar for a couple of years. I should have left well alone but I foolishly decided to upgrade and I appear to be having the same problem you did. I have had similar problems booting in the past and deleting the udev file did the trick then but now it isn't.by lotus49 - Debian
Vlad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @hanker > Raspberry Pi looks damn sexy, but for some reason > I highly doubt that at the end of the day it will > really turn out to be that cheap. I mean, if the > price indeed will be around 30€, I would > probably be one of the first guys to buy it, but > my inner voice is telling me that a morby lotus49 - Debian
I don't know if you have done a lot of customisation, but if not, why don't you just run the installation script in exactly the same way you did when you first installed Debian?by lotus49 - Debian
Phreon Wrote: > I tried the above and i get .... > > root@debian:/etc/apt# root@debian:/etc/apt# > apt-key add repo.key; apt-get install hd-idle > -bash: root@debian:/etc/apt#: No such file or > directory > Reading package lists... Done------------------------------------------------------- > Signal9 Wrote: > --------------------------------------------------by lotus49 - Debian
While it isn't clear exactly what is causing this, I think I can tell what is happening. The fact that swap and then your / partition become unavailable appears to be due to the USB flash disk no longer being recognised once you have plugged in the media player. You are going to have to do some experimentation with this. Have you tried plugging other USB devices into your DockStar? Iby lotus49 - Debian
My experience of Debianising my DockStar has, thanks to Jeff's excellent script, been entirely trouble free, however a few people have had problems where their DockStar appears to boot from the NAND OK but they have damaged their installation on their USB and cannot ssh into the Pogoplug partition. Is there any reason why someone (perhaps me if people are interested) cannot take a image oby lotus49 - Debian
It's worth pointing out that, once you have successfully installed Debian (which worked very well and without any hitches in my case) that you have a fully functional Debian computer. There is nothing special about the Debian installation you end up with. It runs on a different processor from most computers but that is very rarely even slightly relevant. I am far from a Linux newbie (I&by lotus49 - Debian
SteveO Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I did not know that apt-get was in the doozan > distribution. > It may be worth mentioning that Jeff has not created a distro but has given us an easy way to install a standard (albeit minimal) Debian distro. Consequently, anything that normally comes with Debian is either already there or availableby lotus49 - Debian
This happened to me while I was setting up my DockStar but I correctly guessed the problem (although of course this may not be your problem). Sometimes, particularly after installing a new kernel, Debian decides to reallocate the network device names so what was eth0 becomes eth1. Consequently your /etc/network/interfaces doesn't set up the network properly as you have no entry in thereby lotus49 - Debian
I have a flash drive with my bootable partition and a hard disk for storage. When I installed Debian the flash disk was /dev/sda1 but when I added the HD that swapped to /dev/sdb1. My approach has been to use UUIDs in /etc/fstab and to make sure my HD is not bootable. This has worked perfectly and doesn't appear to depend which device name is allocated to which device.by lotus49 - Debian
This just means that the remaining DockStars will be cheaper probably - look out for more bargains. I'd be surprised if having eSATA rather than USB would make much practical difference in terms of speed for most people. I only have a 100Mbps LAN at home so disk transfer speed is not the limiting factor. If people use these things as they were intended, having eSATA won't make anby lotus49 - Debian
Have you tried logging into your DockStar and using wget to retrieve the file manually? The problem may be a simple connectivity issue. I tried to download the file manually (using my browser) it was fine so it's definitely not the debian site itself causing the problems and this script has worked lots of times before (not that that proves there are no bugs but something major like thisby lotus49 - Debian
I'm no expert (my DockStar hasn't even arrived yet) but I have read a fair bit about this in the last two days. If you have re-enabled hbwd, it may have downloaded and flashed the updated firmware which disables ssh by default. You should be able to re-enable ssh on the pogoplug site if this is the cause of your problem.by lotus49 - Debian
There are loads of very cheap ones on eBay that look identical to the one the Peter linked to at http://spritesmods.com/?art=picframe. I'm going to be a real daredevil and risk the grand sum of £3.38 on the cheapest one on ebay.co.uk to find out whether this is a Sitronix one. Due to the cheap postage, this is going to take a couple of weeks to get to the UK but if it works, I'll rby lotus49 - Displays