Booting

[bodhi]

I'm trying to understand the Pogo Pro boot process. After I've installed ALARM, everything is cool. If I remove the USB drive, and power on the Pro, what will it do? will it boot into old Pogo OS? or will it just hang forever? (I'm seeing it flashing the LED forever).

[WarheadsSE]

It will just "hang" "forever". What actually happens: uboot loads the kernel from NAND, and executes. They kernel looks to /dev/sda1 where if it is not there after ~15 seconds, it will fault and cease to do anything else, leaving the led blinking in a kernel thread elsewhere.

[bodhi]

Thanks Warhead!

I'm having a cold boot problem after upgrade system and then udev-oxnas (as reported in this thread: http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1144&start=20#p9438). I'm using a Sandisk USB stick and it never fails to cold boot. So I went back to the version before I did that massive upgrade, and it booted normally.

The log for this upgrade activity is huge, so I'll have to look through this hoping to see what has changed during the upgrade that change the booting behavior? Is there any thing that anybody can think of? such as changing kernel parameters in NAND?

-bodhi

[WarheadsSE]

For the heck of it, and I can't say this will solve the problem, but try doubling the 'network' entry in /etc/rc.conf DAEMONS line. No, I'm not sure why this has worked for some. I am guessing speed of the network coming up, or something.

[bodhi]

@Warhead,

Just want to update about my cold boot problem. Since I doubled the network entry as you suggested, my PogoPro cold booted successfully every time!

Thanks

[chaskito]

I also am having trouble booting, or rather, ssh'ing into my POGO-P01. The only change I made was to follow instructions to change the freakish blinking of the LED. I rebooted, and now the pogo blinks green then settles to orange. I have let it sit for hours and still no chance for ssh. In terminal window I have applied the normal *ssh-keygen -R ***.***.*.***

Out of curiosity I checked into my router webpage and saw TWO entries for my pogo at different ip's. One of the ip's was that which I assigned the pogo with correct mac address, the other was strange, consisting of three numbers and a whole bunch of 0's. Could that be the wireless of the Pogo? I am thinking of just starting over on with the install since it is so easy to do as root on my linux comps. Note: I have added another "network" daemon to daemons line in rc.conf. Booting from usb flash (with swap to be put on attached HDD)

Any suggestions appreciated (attempting to set this up as a samba/crashplan server)

I love these devices! Long time Arch Linux ARM/dockstar user, wanting to play with some new hardware.
Thanks in advance!

-samba is running, -just need to be able to ssh now!