Boot disk moved from front to back. Fix?

[yazyazoo]

Socaltom,

I followed your directions to reinstall on the USB drive but am having a problem now. I can get to the install and do the reboot and login with root/root and get to the alarm prompt.

However if I unplug the Pogoplug it loses everything and I can only SSH in with root/ceadmin. I thought I was done and tried to move the Pogoplug where I needed it and found out it wasn't working. I tried to install again and same thing. I can use reboot command and get to alarm prompt. If I unplug then it is as if it was never installed on the USB stick.

Thanks.

[moonman]

On a V2 the recommended port is the back-bottom because in case you have multiple storage devices connected that port gets initialized first. I see you created ext3 filesystem with mke2fs -j. Did you change U-Boot environment variable "usb_rootfstype" to tell kernel that your boot device is ext3?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/usr/sbin/fw_setenv usb_rootfstype 'ext3'')

It theory you can mount ext3 as ext2, but it doesn't hurt to make it right and this should avoid some other errors due to using a plain ext2

[yazyazoo]

Ok moved it to the back and typed in that command for ext3 moonman. Worked even after unplugging the power and rebooting. Thanks!

[guiyoforward]

Hi, this seems to be a very common problem, shouldn't this be made into a sticky and/or put into the arch linux install page?

BTW, having to reinstall because of removing a usb key is kind of annoying. Is there a fix to this?

Thanks

[yazyazoo]

What I wish was a way to subscribe to threads on this forum that way we could save threads that are useful to use.

[pepedog]

There is, second line from bottom

[yazyazoo]

Thanks! I thought I looked the whole page and couldn't see that option!

[bugnmui]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he SSH key of your device will be different, so you need to tell Mac OS X or Linux to remove it from ~/.ssh/known_hosts before using SSH again:
ssh-keygen -R 192.168.1.123 # Use your device's IP

[moonman]

That's normal, just update they key locally. known_hosts is a local file and on linux/mac only.