Hello Arch forums,
Following the instructions found here, I inserted a 1 TB drive in the left slot, USB in a rear port and turned on the NSA.
After rebooting, the HD spins, the blue LED on the front is on, the fan is active and the ethernet port is blinking. The rest of the LEDs are inactive. I at first assumed that this is because of the Arch autoinstaller being busy configuring things, after giving it 30 minutes to finish this task it appears that something has gone wrong. Looking up my router's IP table suggests that the NSA was never assigned an IP, ruling out a net-based checkup.
Having searched the forums I am aware of the existence of this thread. However:
1) The first solution offered refers to MBR issues. Best I know, these do not happen when the drive is under 2 TB. I could be completely wrong, however.
2) Restoring the default environmental variables and restarting the installation either causes the USB to not be read or results in the situation described above.
3) The v2's hard disk bay is attached in such a way that I don't think I can safely attach a serial cable to the pins while the disk is in place, unless I support the HD creatively. This is a problem as to the best of my understanding the bootloader is configured to read from the disk.
The version of the original firmware is V4.81(AAAJ.0)C0. FFP has been installed previously and uninstalled prior to originally attempting to install Arch. I possess a working serial TTL cable.
Given the above, in what way can I find information on where the problem lies and how to fix it?