HELP! i need help fixing my pogoplug pro!

[walkinglime]

i was SSHing my pogoplug pro and i noticed it was running out of free space, so i decided to do a fresh install of arch linux arm. so i used fdisk to get rid of the partition and make a new partition. then when it was done making the new partition, it said something about an error and said it would be fixed after a reboot. so i gave my pogoplug pro the command to reboot (not even thinking about the fact that there is no OS on it). so it shut down and then started itself back up again, but there was nothing for it to boot into so it it just continously blinked until i unplugged it.

i just dont know what to do now!

[jmandawg]

I believe there is a guide in one of the other threads on here. Basically i think you have to:

1. plug drive into any linux box
2. fdisk
3. mkfs.ext3
4. Download arch kernel and extract to drive
5. plug in drive to pogo and then plug in pogo power

and i think that's it.

[WarheadsSE]

Bascially, the above. For specific instructions, scroll to the bottom of the installation instructions.

[walkinglime]

ive tried what it says at the bottom of the installation instructions, multiple times. it just doesnt seem to be working for me. what flavor of linux do you recomend using? could you also, give me the specific commands to put in? (im sort of new to command line linux)

[shankargopal]

I think what WarheadSE and the others mean is that you should download the Arch Linux ARM rootfs from here (check it against the md5sum 9e71b0c31ddba5d982f12b2d24f72ad8, but this is valid as of two days ago, presumably still valid right now - WarheadSE can give you a better idea on this then I can). Preferably download it using wget and not using your browser.

Then do the steps that jmandawg mentioned (though incidentally as far as I know you would be downloading the rootfs and not the kernel).

Make sure you do all of them as root, and you need to do it on another linux machine. If you are not familiar with command line commands at all, google for each of the commands so you have a better idea of what they do. What he's suggesting, in terms of actions, is:
1. What he said
2. Use fdisk to create one partition on the drive (presumably you already know how to do this since you had used fdisk)
3. Use mkfs.ext3 <new partition - e.g. /dev/sdb1> to create an ext3 file system on that partition (double check that you are giving it the correct partition, it will wipe whatever partition is specified)
4. Use tar to extract the file I have linked above to the pen drive partition, after you have run mkfs and have mounted the new partition somewhere (tar -xvzf <downloaded filename>, run from the directory where you have mounted the partition, should do the trick)
5. Type "sync", let it finish; then unmount the drive and AFTER it has been unmounted unplug it from the computer
6. Plug it into the Pogoplug and start the Pogoplug

Incidentally absolutely DO NOT run the oxnas-install script again on your plug at any point - someone else on the forum bricked their plug by doing that.

[walkinglime]

when i try to run wget it says:

resolving archlinuxarm.org... failed: name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address 'archlinuxarm.org'


what does this mean and what do i do about it?

[rakunko]

-WalkingLime
You used:
sudo wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM ... est.tar.gz
Using a ubuntu box to perform my restore process has retaught me the importance of sudo'ing everything.

[rakunko]

-Forum
I had this exact problem where I just install arch linux and played around too much and got the OS messed up don't know how but it was something (L)AMP related and will never drink and linux again! With a fresh installation of arch linux using the above method it works perfectly just be sure to sudo and use the latest code for arch linux for the pogo plug pro via http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM ... est.tar.gz
- Rakunko