Accidentially deleted primary partition - GoFlex Home

[thehappyotter]

I hope someone may be able to help?

Whilst attempting to delete the second partition on my GoFlex home I have pressed 1 and not 2 and deleted my main partition. Since then the unit is displaying a flashing green light and I can't connect at all.

As you can only connect to the unit via ssh over wireless (I don't have a serial cable) is there any way of getting the system to boot by copying the os to a USB stick?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[bodhi]

See step 11 and 12 on the installation page for GoFlex Home. Except that in this case, use an USB thumb drive, insert it to another Linux box, follow step 11 to create ext3 file system, and follow step 12 to download and untar rootfs to this stick. Of course, the drive letter /dev/sda might not apply here because you will mount it on another Linux box and it might be /dev/sda1 or whatever might be. After that, use the USB stick to reboot, and the rest is just a matter of recreating the ext3 partition on your HDD and putting the same rootfs on it.

[thehappyotter]

Thank you for the advice so far, it would appear to be booting, as in I get a sold green light.

That said, it doesn't seem to be visible on the network. It doesn't show as connected to the router and I can't ssh to the IP address it had before.

Do I need to complete further steps?

[bodhi]

You'll probably need to copy the GoFlex Home MAC address to a file somewhere on the rootfs (sorry I forgot which one, pls search the forum!) and reboot.

[thehappyotter]

All working now. Thanks.

[igenyar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bodhi', 'S')ee step 11 and 12 on the installation page for GoFlex Home. Except that in this case, use an USB thumb drive, insert it to another Linux box, follow step 11 to create ext3 file system, and follow step 12 to download and untar rootfs to this stick. Of course, the drive letter /dev/sda might not apply here because you will mount it on another Linux box and it might be /dev/sda1 or whatever might be. After that, use the USB stick to reboot, and the rest is just a matter of recreating the ext3 partition on your HDD and putting the same rootfs on it.