[How-To] Boot Entirely from SATA

[jkgm]

This tarball: http://ppl.ug/r1LnA0CT83U/ (patched 12/31/11 md5:b09ce58f93c79164c9dae0d62758be6c)

Is there cached version? because I posted the MD5 in the OP

Must be. I just pulled the tarball directly from that link, and the MD5 of the file I got (twice) is 31dcd562c171df332020c3fdf0375841.

[WarheadsSE]

Damn failed sync.

Fixed.

[jkgm]

Damn failed sync.

Fixed.

SUCCESS!!! My Pogolug is booting from SATA now. Thanks sooooo much for your effort!

[jkgm]

And yes, powering my 5v 1A 2.5" HDD directly from USB works like a charm:

[WarheadsSE]

Lol, but awesome.

[xenoxaos]

Lol, but awesome.

And you made fun of me yesterday when you saw mine.....

[jkgm]

Lol, but awesome.

The goal is to cram the drive into the Pogoplug with a tiny blower for cooling so that it looks stock. The drive fits but I'm not sure about fitting the connectors in with it.

[WarheadsSE]

Place it under the board, and wrap the SATA around the board's edge. It's a Pro though, so space is more limited on the underside.

[myjunk]

@jkgm : thanks for the pic. It looks awesome!! Am also psysche that this solution will enable me to get back the original pogo plug functionality. (I still would like to install optware instead of full blown arch due to me wanting the cloud feature / capability)

[myjunk]

Not working. I think I've read and reread this entire thread a min of 5x.

For the partition table. When you say an msdos partition table, it doesnt mean that. We have to do anything right? Just use the normal fdisk

Eg:
/dev/sda1 - new partition. Start at 2048 sectors (changes from block to sectors w option "u") and put the size as +10M (for 10mb). This partition is unformatted
/dev/sda2 - new partition. Size Is +500M (500mb)

Sda2 is formatted as ext3 and the rootfs is put inside this partition.
/use/local/mac_addr is created.

./disk_create is executed

It still comes up w the LED blinking. Dang!!

I don't have a serial cable w me to do diagnostics. Is there any other way to figure out what's wrong? Prhaps some missing steps from the above?