$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DonMegel', 'I') had already wiped the stick so I am not sure. I tried putting the other Kirkwood image onto an 8 gig flash drive but the Pogoplug just blinked green for a while before turning red and starting over. I suppose I'll go back to the first Kirkwood image and try it with the larger flash drive.
This is quite frustrating. I grew up with Windows (95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8) and learning Linux is like learning to walk again with different legs. I know the power of linux and I want to learn, its just very VERY frustrating.
Lost SSH on Pogoplug V4
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Re: Lost SSH on Pogoplug V4
by Socaltom » Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:10 pm
I hear you,
Most of these installs go perfect, but there are a lot of uncontrolled things that can cause problems. Some USB thumb drives just won't work. Usually a spinning hard drive is the most reliable, but there are a few that use some sort of strange drive mapping that can screw things up.
I read the instructions for the V4, and it does say its common for the connection to be refused initially, but that after a few minutes is should let you in. I think a 2GB drive is really the minimum to get it to work, but like I said, some thumb drives just don't work.
Tom
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Re: Lost SSH on Pogoplug V4
by DonMegel » Sat Jan 17, 2015 3:33 am
I am at my wits end. I tried both kirkwood files on a 8 gig verbatim and a 16 gig sandisk without any luck. I tried going back to the 1 gig but that doesn't work anymore either.
Use ext4 right?
Use ext4 right?
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Re: Lost SSH on Pogoplug V4
by Socaltom » Sat Jan 17, 2015 4:48 am
The boot partition should be ext3 per the instructions.
Tom
Tom
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Now I have a couple of raspberry pi ( 3+ and 4)
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Re: Lost SSH on Pogoplug V4
by DonMegel » Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:18 pm
Tried again with a 2 gig sandisk using ext3. No good. I think I have killed it.
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Re: Lost SSH on Pogoplug V4
by bodhi » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:08 am
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DonMegel', 'T')ried again with a 2 gig sandisk using ext3. No good. I think I have killed it.
Don,
You have not killed it. Just find an Ext3 rootfs that you can boot with. Since you don't have serial console (based on your posts), you need to observe the LED light:
- If the LED light is solid green, then the problem is with the USB rootfs or bootargs. Most likely rootfs on USB.
- if the LED light is red or flashing red and restart, then the kernel on the USB (i.e. /boot/uImage) is not good
In both case, you need to recreate rootfs on your USB drive. Make sure that it is formatted as Ext3.
If Arch rootfs does not work for you, then find Debian USB rootfs that does (search doozan.com). And then once you can boot in to any rootfs, mount the Arch stick and examine possible problems with it. Most likely you had misstep, such as not creating the rootfs as root user, ...
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