[How-To] Boot Entirely from SATA

[sethjvm]

Thank you for the response. Is that with a regular mbr? And do you know which sector your sda1 begins on? is it 2048?

[karog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sethjvm', 'T')hank you for the response. Is that with a regular mbr? And do you know which sector your sda1 begins on? is it 2048?

[Geoff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sethjvm', 'I') am not sure if the problem is the 4096 sector size or the hybrid MBR or a combination of both.

[sethjvm]

It appears that my issue is with my Termaltake ST0005U SATA/USB2 dock. Google has revealed several forums where users have pointed out that Termaltake has changed the marketing (and technical specs?) of the drive over the years. Currently internet retailers are indicating that the ST0005U supports drives up to 3TB but there are older published specs that indicate that it only supported drives up to 1.5TB and then 2TB. People have tried (unsuccessfully) to get a firmware upgrade from Thermaltake to support larger drives however it does not appear that anyone has been successful.

As an aside, I am able to boot a 3TB drive with GPT (/dev/sda1=rootfs and /dev/sdb2=data) and 4096 bps sectors in a USB2.0 dock from NAND and see the entire drive.

[norules]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jmandawg', 'T')o elaborate on what Warhead said:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '#Mount your rootfs on a linux box where sdx is your sata drive:
mkdir -p /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/sdx2 /mnt/tmp

#Write new kernel
dd if=/mnt/tmp/boot/uImage.nopci of=/dev/sdx1 bs=512
sync
umount /mnt/tmp')

[JohnJohn68]

Hi all,
I wish have your opinion about my problem. I have very very little experience on linux and any in flash Nand or rewrite uboot file. Also my english it is no so good.
By the way, I have a pogoplug P21 v3. It was perfectly working. But some days ago for a (big) error I installed install_uboot_mtd0.sh (http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/ins ... ot_mtd0.sh) instead of oxnas-install (http://archlinuxarm.org/os/oxnas/oxnas-install.sh). I rebooted my Pogo but then it wouldn't get back up. The pogo is on, but the logo light is off. When I insert the usb with Arch linux, it lighted for one second and after go off. Sadly, I can't see my Pogo on my network and consequently reach the pogo by ssh.
What do you think I have to do to recovery my pogo?
Thanks in advance
Ionny

[WarheadsSE]

READ THE DAMN THREAD.

[JohnJohn68]

Dear all,
I tryed to recovery my pogo, but, due my inesperience, some step in this procedure is unclear to me.
1) I connect to my pc running debian, a sata disk.
2) I dowload the tarball: http://ppl.ug/r1LnA0CT83U and extract in a folder
3) I edit the `disk_create` script to match the disk (in my case the address was sda)
4) run ./ disk_create (I did not achive any error)
5) for partitioning I used gparted (I don't know Fdisk command). I creted a primary partition dos fat16 with the first sector being 2048, of 16MB (sda1). After that i created the other primary partition (sda2) formatted ext3.
6) installed kernel running disk_create script editing it sda1 in order to place it into /dev/sda1
7) i mounted the formatted de/sda2 and I extracted into the oxnas rootfs. I also edit usr/local/mac_addr adding the pogo's mac address.
8) this stap is unclear. Anyway I digit 'sync' on terminal, and mounted the device.
9) I attached the device direct sata, apply the power
But the logo light stay off and I can't reach the device via ssh.
Do I forget to do some steps?
Thanks in advance
Ionny

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnJohn68', 'D')ear all,
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') tryed to recovery my pogo, but, due my inesperience, some step in this procedure is unclear to me.
1) I connect to my pc running debian, a sata disk.
2) I dowload the tarball: http://ppl.ug/r1LnA0CT83U and extract in a folder
3) I edit the `disk_create` script to match the disk (in my case the address was sda)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Socaltom', '
')Do you have a Pro or a V3? If you don't have a pro you need to change the symlinks to address the non-PCI bus

Did you remove all the partitions before you ran disk_create?