Pogoplug V2 not booting when external drive plugged in

[Mewit]

Hi there,
I've successfully mounted an external harddrive on my pogoplug but it doesn't seem to reboot while it's plugged in. I figure it doesn't know which USB drive to try and boot from. Is that correct? How do I fix this?

Thanks a lot,
Alex

[Socaltom]

Did you follow the install guide?

What is it booted to when it mounts the drive?
Tom

[Mewit]

Yes I followed the guide and it seemed to work fine. The guide says to only connect the boot disk when setting it up though, so this problem (with the external harddrive) didn't start until I threw that into the mix.

I'm not sure what you mean by "what is it booted to when it mounts the drive". My root drive or whatever is all installed on a thumb drive, which it boots off of normally when I don't attach the external harddrive. When I do mount the external harddrive (sdb1) it works fine until I reboot when it will just sit there, light on but nobody home (apparently). At least it doesn't connect to the network so I have no way to ssh into it.

I thought the problem was that when I mounted the harddrive I didn't tell the system it's not a boot disk, and for whatever reason it has a higher priority than the thumb drive so it's trying to boot from the wrong place. Is that not what's going on? I'm new to Linux, so the problem may be something very basic.

Thanks a lot,
Alex

[hydro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mewit', '
')I thought the problem was that when I mounted the harddrive I didn't tell the system it's not a boot disk, and for whatever reason it has a higher priority than the thumb drive so it's trying to boot from the wrong place.

[Mewit]

Thank you! Should have thought of switching which USB was plugged in where before, that did fix it. I can now reboot the pogplug remotely, but I still have to mount the harddrive manually each time using
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ftp
(Note I use ntfs-3g rather than normal mount because it's ntfs formatted).

Is it possible for me to make this mount to that folder automatically on each startup? I was trying to follow from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud ... SB_devices

But it almost seems like that stuff is just for plug and play type popups on a GUI system, which I'm not using. Isn't there some way I could just make it run a script to mount the harddrive in the same place every time I boot the system?

Thanks again,
Alex

[hydro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mewit', 'I')sn't there some way I could just make it run a script to mount the harddrive in the same place every time I boot the system?