Hosed my Pogo - assistance appreciated

[DKNY]

Help! I slipped on my Linux and can't get up!

I got sloppy while installing node.js and gcc on my POGO-B01, and I've hosed my Linux.

At power up the green LED on the front blinks repeatedly for many minutes.
I can ping it, but ssh doesn't answer.

Is it the case that I did something which causes the OS not to boot from the USB drive?
Or is it trying to boot from USB, but not finding what it needs?

I was close to joy and now back at square zero.

TIA for any guidance.

[WarheadsSE]

Sounds like an oxnas. Does the bottom say it's a B01 or an E02?

Psst: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6 ... s-ui-tabs2 and scroll to the bottom.


And.. how the heck did you screw up that bad installing nodejs and gcc?

[DKNY]

It's a B01. One of the recent pinkies.

How did I screw it up? Well.... I'm not sure when I hosed it. I did a bunch of operations a little recklessly:

1. I did a "routine" pacman -SYu since I'd set the box aside for a month or so. It updated more than I expected, including some "core" looking packages. I didn't look closely. Ooops.

2. I pacman'd nodejs and the node serialport library, because I want to try doing some device communication over the USB.

3. The nodejs serialport library wanted gcc, so I pacman'd that.

I ran a little hello world node program, which worked fine.

I unplugged.

I suffered the consequences.

[WarheadsSE]

ext2 plus yanked drive = death :p


Also I ask because some have come containing the other recently

[DKNY]

Aha. So does that mean the ext2 filesystem probably corrupted my boot files when I (accidentally) unplugged? Like it didn't get to write a buffer or something?

And... can I fix it?

[Philoo]

connect to another linux computer and fsck it. or gparted "partition/unmount/check" or palimpsest (aka disk utility) "check filesystem"

[DKNY]

forgive me for being ignorant on this, but...

what do I need to fix? the USB drive with Linux on it?

If I managed to get to some other linux box and download a clean image of arch linux onto the USB drive, would I be set?

I don't know the bootstrapping process.

[WarheadsSE]

You can fsck it from a linux livecd, or if you don't mind replicating your steps you can just follow the instructions on that page.