goflex home - don't start from harddisk

[hdhwx42]

Hello all.
I got it. My GFH works absolutely fine.
First I tried to set the PARTUUID -- above mentioned by moonman.
It is very simple to do this -- start gparted and check the option and commands for the PARTION.
There you can create a random UUID for the PARTion -- that's the PARTUUID.

After that the boot process didn't work -- nothing worked at all.
I decided to install ArchLinux from scratch
* I used Knoppix -- gparted
* I deleted the partion and created a new one -- one partion with 3TB.
* then I downloaded the latest ArchLinux
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz
')
* used tar to extract the tgz file
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz')
* with tar I got some warnings -- but anyhow -- it worked
* I inserted the HD to the GFH cradle and booted ArchLinux -- with the serial cable
* all went well

In the conclusion I can say that the serial cable is absolutely necessary and nothing else is that important.
The boot sequence is very important to identify the problems.
Thanks to all.

By the way -- I had some problems in building the serial cable. Especially to identify the correct pinning and find the correct USB-TTL converter.