Pogoplug v2 reverts to manufacturer linux on reboot

[everphilski]

I've had a pogoplug functioning as a home server for about four months now, rebooted it yesterday and it's reverted to the original manufacturer's onboard linux.

I went through steps 1-4 here

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... 2-pinkgray

to reinstall the bootloader.

I manually mounted the thumb drive containing archlinuxarm and it looks fine, mounts cleanly.

unmounted, rebooted, still booting into manufacturer's linux distro.

Is there something in a log file I can query or how can I figure out whats wrong? I removed all other perhiperals besides the thumb drive containing ALARM (an external hard drive and digital TV decoder) and still no luck.

thanks,

philip

[pepedog]

Don't do bootloader again
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3312&p=19207#p19207

[everphilski]

Not sure I understand. I have a valid ext3 partition with a valid copy of ALARM and I don't want to format and start over, I just want to boot what I already have - surely this is a bootloader issue?

philip

[pepedog]

At least try it on another USB drive so you can be assured it's not the bootloader (uboot)

[everphilski]

pepedog: owe you an apology, I installed a fresh copy of ALARM on a fresh drive and it boots no problem. So I somehow messed up my original ALARM install.

Anyone know where I start to un-f**k my original ALARM install? I had a lot of things set up on there and I'd like to avoid starting from scratch if possible.

(I did try to DD the image of my original ALARM install onto another drive, it wouldn't boot either)

thanks

philip

[everphilski]

Go ahead and lock thread; I'll make a new one for the new problem. -philip