Can't reinstall on a new usb stick. Can't SSH.

[yazyazoo]

I am trying to reinstall Arch on a Dockstar that I have. I think the original USB stick is corrupted and wanted to try and reinstall Arch on a new usb stick. With my E02 Pogoplugs I have been able to just remove the original USB stick with Arch and put a new one in and SSH and reinstall Arch.

However on the Dockstar, for some reason when I remove the original Arch install stick and place a new one in. I am not able to SSH into the Dockstar. If I put the original stick in I am able to SSH back into the Dockstar. Should I press the reset button on the Dockstar with a paperclip to try and reset it again?

Thanks.

[WarheadsSE]

Which rootfs tarball are you using?

[yazyazoo]

I am not sure what rootfs tarball I installed.

I followed the Dockstar wiki on the front page about a 3-4 weeks ago.

The only tar I see is at the step:

tar -zxvf ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz -C alarm


Also during installation the wiki seemed to be missing some steps or maybe I installed it wrong. During untarring it said I had errors from no space.

I had to mkdir /tmp/alarm
mount /tmp/alarm
the untar to get it to work.

then unmounted /tmp/alarm.

I have been getting some errors on sabnzbd and feel it might be from a corrupted usb stick. I want to reinstall but can't seem to get the new stick and Dockstar to be seen on SSH.

Thanks.

[WarheadsSE]

Okay, if your uboot has an older uboot, it will not boot the kernel from that. You need to grab the armv5te-latest, then upgrade your uboot to use the newer kernel.

[yazyazoo]

WarheadsSE,
Ok can you tell me if I am in the right direction? I am looking at this forum and there is a thread called Mainline Boot. From reading the Main post it seems that I need to update by using this command?

pacman -Sy uboot-dockstar

So I had this Dockstar for over a year and had Arch running on it. Then about a month ago I got another USB stick and re-installed using the directions in the Dockstar Wiki. For some reason I don't think this stick is working that well and that is why I am trying to reinstall again with a different usb stick.

So if that is the correct command to update the uboot where else would I need to grab the armv5te-latest? I am not that great at Linux but I do like to learn usually thru trial and error.

Thanks.

[moonman]

http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/downloads

The one with 3.1.10 in the name

[yazyazoo]

I tried to reinstall with new new link for the newest version. Now I can't SSH in even with the original stick. What can I do now to even try and fix this?

Are there going to be new instructions on the wiki for each Platform on how to install? I have some Pogo e02 that I am now afraid of bricking. Why aren't the wiki updated when something major like this happens?