[Solved] boot issues with Series 4 Pogoplug

[permitivity]

I got a Series 4 Pogoplug to play around with. I have several E02 Pogoplugs with Arch, so I thought I knew what I was doing.

After installing uboot per Alarm instructions, I rebooted the S4 Pogoplug but the green LED just keeps blinking. I admit, I didn't do the first step - the part where you install Alarm on a flash drive. I have several flash drives that already have Arch installed on it from E02's. So, I powered off and plugged in one of the E02 rootfs drives and powered it on and it booted up fine. I could ssh into it. Samba and stuff running fine.

But when I remove the rootfs flash drive and power on, the Series 4 pogoplug just keeps blinking green. Can't connect via ssh. Any advice?

[WarheadsSE]

The V4 does not have the "remove the stick to use stock" ""feature""

[permitivity]

Oh, I did not know that. They're both the same family processor, so I assume it runs the uboot version of linux, like what's on the E02's.

I was wondering why the Series 4 instructions have you install Arch on the flash drive BEFORE you install uboot. It's because once you replace the Pogoplug firmware, you no longer have an environment on which to install Arch on a flash drive.

Is there anything wrong with using the E02 and Series 4 rootfs flash drives interchangeably? Other than configurations changes that are inherently different from one device to another? The link to the Alarm for both installations are the same, so I assume they're using the same version of Arch?

So, if you ONLY have a Series 4 pogoplug, and your rootfs flash drive dies, you won't be able to make another rootfs flash drive using the Pogoplug. You have to download and untar Alarm from another computer to a new flash drive?

[WarheadsSE]

Pretty much. LiveCDs are handy.

[permitivity]

I just noticed that the amount of nvram on the Series 4 and the E02 is the same (128MB). I wonder why the uboot for Series 4 is so much different than E02's.

[WarheadsSE]

Pins are different, attached buses are different, CPU is actually different ...