E02 not booting from external HDD but OK with Flash Drive

[Socaltom]

Yes, that should address it. I am confusedm, does this plug have a sata port?
Tom

[dragonfly77]

@ Tom.

its a Grey Pogoplug. model is E02. i dont think it has a SATA port (im referring to any of its external connectors)
Only 3 back + front 1 USB ports and the power connector.

thanks.

[dragonfly77]

Another troubleshooting i did last night was:

for the external HDD (320GB) that it doesnt' want to boot with on the E02. .. i was thinking maybe this one has some issues, So what i did is i plugged this on another Pogoplug (but this time, V3) and followed the instructions on installing oxnas on V3.

Result:
The Pogoplug V3 is able to boot up with the 320GB external HDD, and i can see alarm and pacman..

argh.. i really need to have the netconsole to see what's happening here.

[Socaltom]

Try this,
Create a partition on the 320G drive that is the same size as your flash drive. Then use dd to copy the flash drive partition to the partition on the 320g drive.
You don't need to make the filessystem ( mkfs.ext3 is not required)

the command line should be
dd if=/dev/sdx# of =/dev/sdy# bs=4096

sdx#= partition on flashdrive ( probably sda1 if you boot from it)

sdy# = partition on the 320g drive ( probably sdb1)

[pepedog]

Maybe clone whole stick to hd, and resize after?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd if=/dev/sdx of=/dev/sdy bs=4096')

[Socaltom]

Or maybe use the windows program to clone the stick to the drive?