New black E02 won't boot

[Socaltom]

Got the a new 19$ plug, box says P 21 but case says E02. I cracked the case it's a v2, Marvel chip, no sata port . Anyhow ran the install per the home page using the pink/ gray v2 directions. The NAND flashed with no errors, I accepted the disabling of the pogoplug service, the plugged . Then I installed a known good ext3 dire and tried to boot, I get an orange light, but the HD light doesn't appear to be working, and I can't sash in with the drive hooked up. If i reboot with no drive I get the pogoplug prompt. Where do I go next?
Tom

[moonman]

I wpuld setup netconsole to see why it isnt booting. Or use serial if you have it.

[karog]

The E02 install instructions state that you should boot from ext2, not ext3 and that ext3 is at best unstable. With my E02 I use an ext2 boot partition and and ext4 rootfs. There is a thread how to do that.

And of course the rootfs for the E02 is not the same as for the P21 or any other version 3.

[moonman]

I have no problem booting from ext3. Even though usb_rootfstype by default is set to ext2, it should still boot as the only difference between ext2 and ext3 is that ext3 contains a journal. You can mount ext3 as ext2 in which case the journal won't be used. Ext4 on the other hand, by default is not backwards compatible with ext3/2. The guide is a little outdated I think as U-Boot has been updated at least once since it was written.

[Socaltom]

I finally got back to it today. I plugged in a different drive, partitioned, formated extracted filesystem and it all boots like it should. I even converted the filesystem to ext3 and it still boots fine. I don't know why it didn't like the other drive, my pink pogo boots off of it just fine.
Tom