Another blinking Green light issue

[zibertron]

Hello all. I am a newbie to the pogoplug and arch linux. I have searched the forum and have found similar topics. but none of them are like mine(I think) I have the pink pogo-b01 and was able to install arch linux. I had everything working, I installed samba, which was my main goal. I also installed webmin, which I was using to do admin stuff with samba. I did notice that the write speeds where a slow on my network, so i decided to try and format on of the spare drives as and ext4 drive. The current drive where i store my media is ntfs. So anyway, I keep getting errors about not being able to mount the drive because the ext4 filesytem is unknow. So I reformat to ext3 and for god knows what reason I decided to reboot the pogoplug. I used the command reboot -a (the one that says not to write something, i can't really remember)

well needless to say when I went to go look at the pogo it was just flashing green light. I figured something happened to the usb drive where I had installed arch linux, so I unplugged the pogo, took out the three usb drives and plugged it back in. Well that didn't help either.

So after searching the forum and google, it looks like my last choice is to use a serial cable. Which I just ordered on amazon. Short from using the serial cable, is there any other way? i don't think I did anything to the NAND? should it not just come up.

Thanks for the help

[zibertron]

Something else that I just noticed. When I plug back in the usb drive I used to install arch linux on, the LED goes from blinking green to blinking an orange/green. When I first power it on you can see and hear the drive being accessed. but then nothing else. Still can't ssh in, and still does not show up in the dhcp list

[Geoff]

Plug in only the bootable drive, and then power up. Plug in the others only after it's booted successfully. Otherwise you never know which drive it will try to boot up from. It can't boot up from an ext4 partition, for example, though it might try to.

[zibertron]

The problem is that it wont boot successfully. I did just try it with only the boot drive and nothing else. I am writing this from a live ubuntu cd. I have also done an e2fsk on the drive and it came back clean. I guess my next thing to try is to figure out how to do a fresh install from this live cd onto the boot drive

[zibertron]

SUCCESS! Its back online. I was able to untar?? the file and it worked. but now my question is. Does this mean that arch linux is not as fail safe as it seems. What i mean by that is, if something goes wrong you are supposed to be able just to unplug what ever you installed it on and go right back to using the pogo software? Oh and I was to late to cancel the order on amazon. So I will have to ship back the cable.

[WarheadsSE]

No, that isn't an option at this time (gank & use pogoplug)

[zibertron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', '(')gank & use pogoplug)

[WarheadsSE]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zibertron', ' ')if something goes wrong you are supposed to be able just to unplug what ever you installed it on and go right back to using the pogo software?