Not booting, cannot SSH

[rakunko]

Installed arch linux via standard instructions for the pogoplug pro, all went fine however felt the need to restore and start fresh - I changed one to many settings over the course of two days and forgot what I had done. So naturally I wanted to start fresh and simply change jsut a few things and set-and-forget samba server. I used these instructions:
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by shankargopal » Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:08 am

I think what WarheadSE and the others mean is that you should download the Arch Linux ARM rootfs from here (check it against the md5sum 9e71b0c31ddba5d982f12b2d24f72ad8, but this is valid as of two days ago, presumably still valid right now - WarheadSE can give you a better idea on this then I can). Preferably download it using wget and not using your browser.

Then do the steps that jmandawg mentioned (though incidentally as far as I know you would be downloading the rootfs and not the kernel).

Make sure you do all of them as root, and you need to do it on another linux machine. If you are not familiar with command line commands at all, google for each of the commands so you have a better idea of what they do. What he's suggesting, in terms of actions, is:
1. What he said
2. Use fdisk to create one partition on the drive (presumably you already know how to do this since you had used fdisk)
3. Use mkfs.ext3 <new partition - e.g. /dev/sdb1> to create an ext3 file system on that partition (double check that you are giving it the correct partition, it will wipe whatever partition is specified)
4. Use tar to extract the file I have linked above to the pen drive partition, after you have run mkfs and have mounted the new partition somewhere (tar -xvzf <downloaded filename>, run from the directory where you have mounted the partition, should do the trick)
5. Type "sync", let it finish; then unmount the drive and AFTER it has been unmounted unplug it from the computer
6. Plug it into the Pogoplug and start the Pogoplug

Incidentally absolutely DO NOT run the oxnas-install script again on your plug at any point - someone else on the forum bricked their plug by doing that.

[rakunko]

Video of what the pogo plug is doing the text on the computer says that the only computer on my network is my desktop I am using right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxnRsUUplqU

[WarheadsSE]

Honestly, at this point, before freaking out about it being "ZOMG BRICKED", order a CA-42 or an FTDI chip, and make a 3.3v serial cable.