[Solved] GFH Bricked? Please help...

by **hetfield** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:45 am

Just broken my GFH which was happily running archlinux for several months after attempting 'pacman' issued through a PC with a faulty PSU... at the time of the update the GFH was directly connected to the router though... Anyways... the GFH didn't allow ssh anymore.... only showed a solid green light...

I researched the forums and learnt that solid green light shows that the gfh is booting and the kernel is loaded.

I then decided to try a bootable flash drive from scratch. So I used moonman's guide here!. Booting with this usb - the GFH still shows the solid green light... but ssh'ing from a virtual terminal window says unknown host alarm (just like before)...

On removing the flash drive & the hdd and trying to boot the gfh shows an orange blinking light.

Is it bricked? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

by **WarheadsSE** » Mon May 19, 2014 12:32 pm

If it is giving different output, no, it is not bricked. (different colored LEDs on different states means it is at least aware of those states)

by **hetfield** » Mon May 19, 2014 1:41 pm

Fair enough... Thanks for the post...

I've re-tried all steps of the "bootable usb making guide" referred in the OP - including making fresh ext3 fs on the drive - but still unable to ssh into the gfh...

by **hetfield** » Wed May 21, 2014 3:36 am

I sometimes suspect - it's probably a messed up fstab entry (probably a typo somewhere) which I did when I was able to ssh last time it booted fine... But I'm assuming reinstalling from scratch i.e., unpacking the OS tarball - would have re-written the fstab anyway... any suggestions....

by **hetfield** » Wed May 21, 2014 4:34 am

Yippeeee.... Marking it as Solved. Was just able to ssh.

I think the problem was either of these:

My LAN cable was slipping out of the socket on GFH. [I'm using a short 1ft cable crimped by myself, as the GFH happens to sit next to the router.]
Or I was continuedly forgetting to 'sudo su' each time i was uncompressing the tarball on the USB stick...
Thanks everyone who had a look at this thread.