I believe the issue brought up in this thread applies to me, so instead of starting a new thread, I will post here.
Last week I set out to install ArchLinuxARM on to my Pogoplug POGO-B01 (pink colored, ordered recently from Adorama, where it is still on sale, for $24 shipped right now). I followed the instructions here and set it all up. Updating the OS worked as advertised and the Plug was functional with the new ArchLinuxARM OS running on it. The trouble is that for my test I had used a USB HDD that had previously failed in a laptop but had been working fine as a USB external; however, right after I was done with the installation, it died and I had to replace it. I again followed the instructions and obtained the root filesystem archive from the installation page and setup the new USB HDD with it.
Then, I started having the problems described here: the Plug would boot just fine, but as soon as I'd upgrade (pacman -Syu or some other components), it will refuse to boot anymore. I have tried to manually repair following the advice I found here or after searching the 'Net (glibc), but I wasn't successful. My question is: will the tarball at
http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM ... est.tar.gz be updated (soon) with a fix that will make it work in our situations?
I setup my first Linux box in 1996 (for work, I was IT admin in grad school) but since then I have only dealt with the OS briefly on a few occasions and, thus, haven't kept up with it (who can really?), so even though I am quite knowledgeable (I'm a software developer), I cannot afford to mess with this for too long. I would really like to have a nice and elegant solution so that I can setup my Plug to do the basic tasks I need it to do (for now, just samba). I would really appreciate that. I should also mention that I, too, have offered software I've written for free (with support), so I know how tough it is, which is why I truly appreciate the hard work of the developers involved in this project.
Kamen