[How-To] Boot Entirely from SATA

[WarheadsSE]

Really, a serial cable is needed. It may be that it's not picking up your enclosure

[myjunk]

Update. Woot!! It works!! The LED light is blinking but I managed to get into the box. I just randomly tried to ssh into the box and got in!!

I am now also able to mount the ubifs and is changing the rcS script fubar. This at least should get me somewhere.

Woot!!!

[WarheadsSE]

Interesting.

depmod -a

modprobe oxnas_bootled

[myjunk]

Woot!! Rebooting the plug w/o the sata i get back my original Pogo Functionality. The FuBar has been undone.

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[root@alarm ~]# depmod -a
[root@alarm ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
gmac                   40372  0
mii                     6328  1 gmac
[root@alarm ~]# modprobe oxnas_bootled
FATAL: Module oxnas_bootled not found.


i did find a tar file called "ledcontrol.tgz" however the contents is not a module.

digging around, I found a module called oxnas-led.ko in the /lib/modules location.

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 lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
[color=#BF0000]bootled_module          1472  0[/color]
gmac                   40372  0
mii                     6328  1 gmac


now the boot LED is gone. It's neither blinking or even lit at all.

[WarheadsSE]

Yup..
oxnas-led.. sometimes I get them confused :p

proled unlock && proled green

[myjunk]

Okie.. Thanks. Wll try that later. It's time to catch some 40-winks sleep. Midnight here.

[atu]

I am new here. I have a question on this SATA booting thing. Suppose we have a successful SATA boot, can I remove the SATA disk and reboot the pogo by itself later or I have to keep this SATA disk connected later on? Thanks.

[WarheadsSE]

If you've booted purely from sata, then the rootfs is also on the sata.

Yank the hard drive out of your computer, and tell me if you can come back to it?

[atu]

Thanks. So that means I always need to hook up the SATA on the pogo. The question is, is there any way to boot the pogo through the SATA, then recover the nand of pogo to make it bootable by itself without further need of SATA? You know, one new pogo is about $20-$50, a SATA disk+dock is more expensive, why don't we buy another new pogo instead?

If you've booted purely from sata, then the rootfs is also on the sata.

Yank the hard drive out of your computer, and tell me if you can come back to it?

[WarheadsSE]

You can surely recover your NAND. That's half the point. I am not your manual though