Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

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Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby fastenova » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:37 pm

I was following some instructions on an online guide that mentions installing uboot-env and adding in "machid=dd6" using fw_setenv, and upon restarting, I'm not able to boot to USB (have an Arch install on flash drive). It acts like it can boot to flash and gets an IP from my router but I can't SSH into it and it's not registering itself on pogoplug.com...

Did I brick my device? Any thoughts on troubleshooting? I get no flashing or solid LED when powering on, but the ethernet port seems to be active...

Or do I just need to change some files on the flash drive?

Many thanks!
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Re: Pogoplug v3 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby WarheadsSE » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:42 pm

Seriously.

Who the hell told you to mess with an uboot environment variable on a a v3 oxnas device? By the way, get a 3.3v ttl & a jst connector, because you've hosed it. It is recoverable, but you have hosed it.
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Re: Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby fastenova » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:44 pm

I'll post the link when I get home. Heh, so is that an affirmative that I bricked it?

Thankfully these devices are pretty inexpensive so it's not the end of the world, but that means I need to find another one...

Seems much cheaper to buy another pogo than get the cables on my very preliminary research... and get a pogo that is actually supported under the newer kernels. Am I wrong?
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Re: Pogoplug v3 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby grayman4hire » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:46 pm

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'S')eriously.

Who the hell told you to mess with an uboot environment variable on a a v3 oxnas device? By the way, get a 3.3v ttl & a jst connector, because you've hosed it. It is recoverable, but you have hosed it.


For the record it wasn't me!

So don't even link to my tutorial @fastenova!!!
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Re: Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby fastenova » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:48 pm

Hah I think that was the one:

"#if you run into issues running
#fw_setenv and fw_printenv commands
pacman -Sy uboot-env
echo "/dev/mtd0 0xc0000 0x20000 0x20000">>/etc/fw_env.config

#Have uboot mount partition as ext3
#safer in power outages
#E02 only, V4 defaults to ext3 already
fw_setenv usb_rootfstype ext3

#Correct machid - make LED Green versus Orange
#Only for E02
fw_setenv machid dd6"
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Re: Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby fastenova » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:00 pm

Hmm as far as the cable goes it looks like this might work:

http://store.yahoo.com/yhst-62196343123 ... cable.html

Just have to make sure it's hooked up for 3.3V and not 5V, right? Comes out to about $10 shipped...
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Re: Pogoplug v3 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby WarheadsSE » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:08 pm

/me facepalm

That V3 is NOT an E02 ... unless it is one of those V3's that are actually E02's on the inside of the box.
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Re: Pogoplug v3 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby grayman4hire » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:08 pm

Is the "Only for E02" or "E02 only" or the title of the tutorial and the listing of compatible Pogoplug's not explicit enough?

Seriously, I would hate for other people with Pogoplugs v3 to run into your same situation.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fastenova', 'H')ah I think that was the one:

"#if you run into issues running
#fw_setenv and fw_printenv commands
pacman -Sy uboot-env
echo "/dev/mtd0 0xc0000 0x20000 0x20000">>/etc/fw_env.config

#Have uboot mount partition as ext3
#safer in power outages
#E02 only, V4 defaults to ext3 already
fw_setenv usb_rootfstype ext3

#Correct machid - make LED Green versus Orange
#Only for E02
fw_setenv machid dd6"
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Re: Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby fastenova » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:13 pm

Sorry, I'm an idiot. It's not v3. I have two pogos, one's a E02, one's a B01. I am working on the E02 (which I misremembered as v3 as it's at home and I'm at work and I was toying with it until 2AM trying to figure out what I f#*&$ed up)

To be clear, this is the 1.2GHz arm5 plug.

I get my pogos confused because my E02 is black and the B01 is pink. I should rattle can them :lol:

I changed my post title, I think.
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Re: Pogoplug v2 hosed by installing uboot-env?

Postby grayman4hire » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:22 pm

The simplest solution is to start from scratch (pull out your USB Flash drive and pretend you just got the Pogoplug).

WarheadsSE will recommend enabling Netconsole to troubleshoot.
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