Pogoplug pro don't boot any more.

[Raymondday]

I had the Archlinux running on this for a long time. The pacman update would not work so it was like a year old.

Got a RS-232 on it and some how that messed it up so now it don't boot any more.

It stops here:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[ 9.020000] Waiting for root device /dev/sda1...
[ 9.290000] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using oxnas-ehci and address 2
[ 9.440000] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
[ 9.440000] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[ 9.450000] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 9.450000] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 9.460000] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 9.470000] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected')

Just does not go on from here. Press enter and nothing. This is though the RS232.

Here is the start of it booting if this helps:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Stage-1 Bootloader XCE_STAGE1: 1.1: Tue Feb 8 01:40:26 PST 2011
Attempting to set PLLA to 700MHz ...
plla_ctrl0 : 0x0000000A
plla_ctrl1 : 0x000E0000
plla_ctrl2 : 0x001C01A0
plla_ctrl3 : 0x00000016
PLLA Set

Setup memory, testing
Reading NAND, Image 0
Hdr len: 0x0001C030
Hdr CRC: 0x39F6D832
OK


U-Boot 1.1.2 (Jul 29 2010 - 19:36:07)

U-Boot code: 60D00000 -> 60D1C030 BSS: -> 60D21800
RAM Configuration:
Bank #0: 60000000 128 MB
SRAM Configuration:
64KB at 0x50000000
NAND:128 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Setting Linux mem= boot arg value
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

Loading from device 0: 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit (offset 0x500000)
-- Using 1bit ECC style encoding
Image Name: Linux-2.6.31.6_SMP_820
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2132260 Bytes = 2 MB
Load Address: 60008000
Entry Point: 60008000
## Booting image at 60500000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.31.6_SMP_820
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2132260 Bytes = 2 MB
Load Address: 60008000
Entry Point: 60008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux................................................................................................................................. done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31.6_SMP_820 (root@ProDev) (gcc version 4.6.0 20110429 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #99 SMP Sun May 29 03:04:43 EDT 2011
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [410fb025] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=00c5387f')

I can "Hit any key to stop autoboot:" and it goes to a CE>> prompt. Can do help for a lot of commands. But I don't know how to use them.

I know there is a Debeom Linux can install on it now I guess run for a USB stick plug in it. I would like to get that if can now.

Looked on this forum but seems like all show that you can all ready get to the command prompt. I can't only the U-Boot ArchLinux one looks like.

-Raymond Day

[Socaltom]

I'm not clear on what changed? Did it just stop booting? or did you do some sort of update?
If it just stopped booting, then what type of drive are you using? a USB thumb drive or a usb hard drive?
Did you try running fsck on a different linux machine ( you can use a bootable CD if you don't have one)
Tom

[Raymondday]

Because ArchLinux could not update any more I went here:

http://blog.qnology.com/2014/07/hacking ... obile.html

I did the commands though the RS232. To a 8GB Flash drive on /dev/sdb because on /dev/sda I got a SATA drive and seems like it would not boot Arch Linux with that removed.

Did not do the commands to put it on the mmcblk0 but the /dev/sdb

When I got to reboot it just never came up. I can see the Ethernet LED's flash some but nothing else.

How do they flash the mmcblk0 when it's new? I guess that's what I need.

If I take off the SATA hard drive and out the 8GB USB stick it still don't boot.

-Raymond Day

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ecause ArchLinux could not update any more I went here:

http://blog.qnology.com/2014/07/hacking ... obile.html

[Raymondday]

I had the SATA drive on it when I first rebooted. It would spin up and spin back down over and over and nothing would happen.

On the Flash chip in the Pogoplug a yellow sticker on the chip says this:

"Pogo pro
r2 C4
12E8"

Guess the pogo V4 is the square type one then. Got another pogoplug pro and I did the same to it but it did not have ArchLinux on it. I did it because I could not connect to it only on the RS232. The command prompt looks like this for it.

root@DebianPlug

I thought that was the same link I used but I could be wrong.

Going to copy the 8GB flash drive to a SATA HDD and see if it will boot from that. The SATA HDD I had on it was only a DATA type drive.

Thank you for you help. Good info.

-Raymond Day

[WarheadsSE]

What does a VoCore ? (MediaTek RT5350 MIPS SoC) have anything to do with a PogoPlug Pro (known to be at least a V3 because it has SATA)

[Raymondday]

I guess are talking about the ARM CPU? It says on it "PLX TECHNOLOGY NAS7820 -AABC F 1025 N68858.00A TAIWAN".

Copied the USB stick to a 320GB SATA hard drive but it still don't boot. I can hear the hard drive spinning up. On the board there is just a dim blue LED light that's all no other lights to know it's on.

The RS-232 gets nothing at all. I know it works because if I unplug the power from the PogoPlug I get some junk on the RS-232 then.

I think I just need a image to put on the 320GB hard drive that will boot from it?

-Raymond Day

[WarheadsSE]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raymondday', 'I') guess are talking about the ARM CPU? It says on it "PLX TECHNOLOGY NAS7820 -AABC F 1025 N68858.00A TAIWAN".

[Socaltom]

Try this
Help! It stopped working!
format a partition on your 320GB drive ( at least 25GB in size) to ext3

the Download and extract the root filesystem tarball onto the new ext3 partition as the root user, not just sudo. Safely umount the drive from the computer, plug it back in to the powered-off Pogoplug, and then plug in the Pogoplug.

If your Pogoplug boots and the front LED blinks wildly for about 15-20 seconds and then TURNS OFF, you're in business when it comes to booting, but there is likely something that has stopped the network. It's not a brick, but be ready to troubleshoot.

The filesystem can be downloaded from here.
http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM ... est.tar.gz

[Raymondday]

Looks like it did not boot. Must be a brick now.

I think I copied it right on the drive.

It looks like this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'root@ubuntu-i3:/media/temp/320GB# ls -l
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 4 2012 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 dev
drwxr-xr-x 41 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 2012 home
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4139 Nov 20 2011 ledcontrol.tgz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 6 2012 lib -> usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 2012 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 2012 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 25 2012 proc
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 root
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 28 2012 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 25 2012 sys
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 usr
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 15 2012 var
root@ubuntu-i3:/media/temp/320GB#')

This shows it's in ext3

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '(parted) print
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/sdl1: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 320GB 320GB ext3

(parted)')

I guess there is no way to un-brick this then. But it only cost about $15.

But this is a good one because I solder the power for SATA.

Thank you for you help

-Raymond Day