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Pogoplug Pro/Debian phenomenon when SATA-booting (4 replies)

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Two Pogoplug Pros here with numerical names based on IP address reservation:
102: OpenWRT internally
104: uboot barely made it on

In both cases, they boot the recent Debian USB stick (those are exactly copies) and of course the 102 defaults to OpenWRT if the USB plug isn't there.
So today i take a spare SATA drive and copy the Debian install over. SATA wouldn't boot on it's own, but strangely-to-me having a Debian stick inserted was enough to boot to the SATA drive! It was a calculated risk for me to remove the Debian USB stick once I heard SATA crackling, and on both Pogos that's the only way at this point to boot it.

For now this isn't high priority since the SATA power supply would force the drive to spin forever, and eventually I hope to have a 5v hard drive that can have some sort of spindown capability (if possible).

Share your thoughts if you're so inclined :-)

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