by Socaltom » Sat Aug 30, 2014 6:18 pm
I put the drive on another linux box
then I used mkfs.ext3 to format the partition in question /dev/sdX2
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX2')
then I mounted the new partition
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkdir /usb
mount /dev/sdX2 /usb
cd /usb')
then I used wget to download the current Kirkwoodroot fs
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz')
then I used tar to extract it
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tar -xzvf ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz')
then edit /usb/etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noatime 0 0
sync
then$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' cd /
umount /usb')
That replaces the rootfs and links the first partition.
Your description matches what I saw. I think it will boot if you reinstall the rootfs.
Tom
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