Clone boot disk for use in new Pogo?

[jaffadog]

Hello - I have two Pogo E02's. I installed ArchlinuxARM on the first using this procedure:
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... s-ui-tabs2

I would like to clone my boot disk to a new USB drive for use on the second Pogo. I partitioned the new drive using fdisk and formatted it using:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mke2fs -j /dev/sda1')
I then copied the first disk to the second (new disk) using rsync:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu ... with_rsync

However, the second pogo fails to boot with this cloned disk. The USB light does flash a bit on boot and the Pogo light turns solid orange. But no ping and nothing bets logged in /var/log.

Any Ideas?

There isn't any requirement for the filesystem format to be the same, or same partition size, is there? As I understand it, uboot just locates sda1, whatever it is, and mounts that for boot, right?

[jaffadog]

I got this to work after doing a couple things. Not sure which in particular was the key.

As recommended by moonman here viewtopic.php?t=5028&p=28109 ,I checked the filesystem with:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'e2fsck -f /dev/sdd1 (where sdd1 is my new usb drive)')
Then, as recommended by sambul13 here viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3355, I added a label to the usb drive, and added line to fstab for my boot usb disk (I also removed UUID mounts for usb drives that actually aren't present on my second pogo; and removed the swap mount I'd setup on the first pogo)
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tune2fs -L urootfs /dev/sdd1')
fstab:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'LABEL=urootfs / ext3 rw,noatime 0 1')
and it now boots.

Before doing this, I enabled netconsole and confirmed uboot was working, and kernel boot was actually starting. Kernel boot was cratering with:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[ 29.135777] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[ 29.140555] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00303030
[ 29.148003] pgd = c0004000
[ 29.150745] [00303030] *pgd=00000000
[ 29.154367] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT
[ 29.159008] Modules linked in:
[ 29.162087] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.1.10-15-ARCH #1)
[ 29.167255] PC is at mount_block_root+0x200/0x280
[ 29.171985] LR is at mount_block_root+0x1e0/0x280
[ 29.176713] pc : [<c052fbfc>] lr : [<c052fbdc>] psr: 40000013
[ 29.176718] sp : cf82bf80 ip : 00000000 fp : 00000000
[ 29.188255] r10: c049f440 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00008000
[ 29.193507] r7 : c086195c r6 : c0551e7c r5 : cf812005 r4 : 00303030
[ 29.200073] r3 : cf82beb0 r2 : cf82bf74 r1 : c049f418 r0 : 00000039
[ 29.206639] Flags: nZcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel
[ 29.213989] Control: 0005397f Table: 00004000 DAC: 00000017
[ 29.219760] Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xcf82a270)
[ 29.225622] Stack: (0xcf82bf80 to 0xcf82c000)
[ 29.230005] bf80: 00000000 00000000 00006180 cf4a2980 00006000 c00d3508 cf8190a0 cf497300
[ 29.238226] bfa0: c049f440 00000001 c0593380 c0551e91 c000945c 00000013 00000000 00000000
[ 29.246450] bfc0: 00000000 c052ff3c fffffffe 00000002 00000000 c0558ee4 c0558ee4 c052f8c8
[ 29.262904] [<c052fbfc>] (mount_block_root+0x200/0x280) from [<c052ff3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0)
[ 29.272525] [<c052ff3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0) from [<c052f8c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c)
[ 29.281717] [<c052f8c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c) from [<c000945c>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
[ 29.290644] Code: e1a00004 ebf3b517 e2800001 e0844000 (e5d43000)
[ 29.296930] ---[ end trace fad1f55e35d26a7a ]---
[ 29.301690] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 29.307681] [<c000d290>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [<c03cc5d4>] (panic+0x58/0x198)
[ 29.315944] [<c03cc5d4>] (panic+0x58/0x198) from [<c0021a48>] (do_exit+0x88/0x7a0)
[ 29.323595] [<c0021a48>] (do_exit+0x88/0x7a0) from [<c000b8e0>] (die+0x1d4/0x200)
[ 29.230005] bf80: 00000000 00000000 00006180 cf4a2980 00006000 c00d3508 cf8190a0 cf497300
[ 29.238226] bfa0: c049f440 00000001 c0593380 c0551e91 c000945c 00000013 00000000 00000000
[ 29.246450] bfc0: 00000000 c052ff3c fffffffe 00000002 00000000 c0558ee4 c0558ee4 c052f8c8
[ 29.254672] bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c052f7ac c000945c fffffbfe fffdfeff
[ 29.262904] [<c052fbfc>] (mount_block_root+0x200/0x280) from [<c052ff3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0)
[ 29.272525] [<c052ff3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0) from [<c052f8c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c)
[ 29.281717] [<c052f8c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c) from [<c000945c>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
[ 29.290644] Code: e1a00004 ebf3b517 e2800001 e0844000 (e5d43000)
[ 29.296930] ---[ end trace fad1f55e35d26a7a ]---
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[moonman]

Recommended by sambul13? It was recommended TO him and added to the guide AFAIR.

You probably had multiple drives connected at boot. On a pogoplug you should be able to plug your boot drive into the very bottom back USB port. Initrd method works as well though.