I'm "ready to troubleshoot" - but HOW?

[DonnyBahama]

I followed the procedure for restoring my boot drive using the root filesystem tarball, and just as the procedure warned, my Pogoplug boots and the front LED blinks wildly for about 15-20 seconds and then TURNS OFF.

I don't even know where to begin troubleshooting this.

[WarheadsSE]

Did you ever run the kernel & modules update? If not, there is a thread here that covers getting the 2012.05 rootfs image & proceeding from that

[DonnyBahama]

As far as I know I did not. Thanks! I'll try to find and follow that.

[DonnyBahama]

OK, so I found this and it seems pretty straightforward. (I also found this which I suspect is what I really need.) The only part I'm unclear about is:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '6') - login as root

[WarheadsSE]

It wont have retained it. It is our default.

[DonnyBahama]

After following the instructions here (I tried both sets of instructions), I'm not seeing my pogoplug in the list of DHCP clients. No IP address = I'm stuck. Tried a different ethernet cable; no change. Suggestions?

[WarheadsSE]

Re-download, and try the 2012.07 rootfs tarball. When it was packed, someone forgot to move the /lib/modules dir. It has since been fixed.

[DonnyBahama]

I'm not sure how to find any tarballs other than the .latest in the downloads area. I just downloaded that one (.latest) last night and used it. Is the .latest version in downloads different from 2012.07 ? If so, where do I find the 2012.07 tarball?

[WarheadsSE]

http://archlinuxarm.org/os/oxnas/

And I updated it last night, so maybe you grabbed a bad copy from Cache?

[DonnyBahama]

Could be I downloaded before you uploaded, who knows. Anyway, thanks for the link!
Do I still need to extract/use update-oxnas with this?