GoFlex Home not accessible

[zafg]

Hi,

I'm quite newbie on Linux but I have encourage myself and tried to install ArchLinux on my GoFlex Home.

I followed all the steps from http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-home#qt-platform_tabs-ui-tabs2 but after the reboot I'm no more able to access to the unit using ssh

The device IP doesn't appears on the router's menu even if it has a fixed one.
When I try to apply the procedure from the Advanced tab, I don't receive any answer

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
ZafgMac:~ zafg$ nc -luk 10.10.10.5 6666

')

I'm using MacOS via wireless

Am I doing something wrong? how can I get out of this?

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards

[moonman]

Did you make aliases for your Wireless interface. I believe en1 is wireless (at least it is on my mac)
Note: for the following to work you MUST have a password for your username, if you don't have a password for your username, sudo will fail.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo ifconfig en1 alias 10.10.10.5
sudo ifconfig en1 alias 10.10.10.4
sudo ifconfig en1 alias 10.10.10.2')

Then open 2 terminal windows (open one, then press Command+N) and enter nc -luk 10.10.10.5 6666 in one and nc -luk 10.10.10.4 6666 in the other. After that turn on your goflex on and copy past output in both windows here. (use code tags).

I hope your goflex h-drive is not 3TB

[zafg]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for your prompt reply

This is the output I've got at 10.10.10.5, nothing at 10.10.10.4
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ZafgMac:~ zafg$ nc -luk 10.10.10.5 6666

U-Boot 2010.09 (Feb 16 2011 - 18:44:23)
UBIT v0.6 by Jeff Doozan and Peter Carmichael
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:fast", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:fast'!
UBIFS not mounted, use ubifs mount to mount volume first!
** Block device usb 0 not supported
** Block device usb 0 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 1 not supported
** Block device usb 1 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 2 not supported
** Block device usb 2 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 3 not supported
** Block device usb 3 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **

Reset IDE: Bus 0: OK Bus 1: not available
Device 0: Model: ST1000DM000-9TS15E Firm: CC92 Ser#: 5YA0FYA1
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 953869.7 MB = 931.5 GB (1953525168 x 512)
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
2851432 bytes read
Loading file "/uInitrd" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
** File not found /uInitrd
Loading file "/boot/uInitrd" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
2643618 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00680000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.7-2-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2851368 Bytes = 2.7 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
Image Name: UBIT-2010.11-00125-ga21bcca
Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 2643554 Bytes = 2.5 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...
')

And then nothing happens.
It's 1Gb one. What should I do?

Thanks in advance

Regards

[WarheadsSE]

If netcat is a 2-way system, then you can interrupt from there.

It's finding and loading your kernel though. Is the partition labelled "rootfs"? What is the file system?

[zafg]

ummm, sincerely, I don't know.

I just followed the instructions from http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-home#qt-platform_tabs-ui-tabs2

Sorry, I'm quite newbie on this world

Regards

[moonman]

Looks like it is 1Tb and not 1Gb. Try making boot partition <20gb. Uboot has problems with large partitions

[zafg]

Thanks for the advice.

How can I access to the prompt to create the partition?

Regards

[moonman]

Well, here you are gonna have to use your computer. The hdd is sata, so connect it to sata port on the motherboard. Then download Gparted live cd, and use that to partition it, label first partition "rootfs". Then, again, using your gparted disk extract archlinux.tar.gz to the firts partition as root.

[zafg]

Hi,

After copy and uncompress again ArchLinux it works!

Thanks for your support!

Regards,
Dani

[rhnelson]

Hello,

Am having same issue with my Goflex Home. Like you I followed the installation instructions to replace the existing EM firmware but I cannot re-login to complete the "after first boot" instructions.

Can someone point to some addition help with this.

Thanks for any help.

Randy