Hello!
I have been reading dozens of sites in this great forum for weeks now, for preparing the conversion of my GoFlex Net into something useful (newest UBoot + latest possible Debian) as good as possible. My plan was following the instructions here.
The result was a disaster, where seemingly everything went wrong as it could have had.
It started with Pogoplug not offering the checkbox for enabling SSH. I tried all options multiple times, like restting cookies, enabling UPnP, another webbrowser, but this damn checkbox wouldn't appear.
After this I wrote an email to pogoplug support, asking them for help. What I got was more an insult than any help.. they just sent me the standard form, telling me I should read the forum and whatever.. same for the next two emails I wrote them..
Ok, then. I remembered that I had an USB2serial converter, from some earlier projects and made it work with my GoFlex Net. I found some instructions on how to add an start entry for dropbear.sh into the rcS script - but there was no dropbear.sh in my device. So I tried to create my own dropbear.sh, added it into rcS and finally got SSH working.
Then I updated the bootloader, like said in Jeff's original instructions. (install_uboot_mtd0.sh).
After flashing I tried booting from the USB thumb drive I had prepared - but the GoFlexNet wouldn't boot or become accessible anymore.
So my next step was trying to recover the bootloader (U-Boot).
For making this short:
-serial console didn't work anymore and just showed garbled characters.
-kwtool didn't work at all, as it would always got "xmodem bad message".
But for luck I noticed, that when I started kwtool, reset the GoFlex and enabled serial console at the same time, I could actually get working access through console again.
As I still needed to repair the bootloader I tried achieving this by updating to the most recent bootloader, following bodhi's instructions here.
I set "fw_setenv dtb_file" because I stil had the old debain from Jeff's original post on my usb drive.
From then on I couldn't boot into debian anymore, because I always get the following error:
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/rootfs does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Could you please help me?
Edit:
I removed the old Debian on my USB drive and replaced it by the most recent Debian 4.4 from bodhi. Then I added the uEnv.txt file with dtb_file='/boot/dts/kirkwood-goflexnet.dtb'.
This actually worked and it can boot into Debian again.
I'm not sure on how to continue from here, as I still got no rescue system and I don't know if the other OS I got on USB now than the original tutorial makes a difference there..
Edit2:
Ok, I just tried the "./install_rescue.sh" scripts. IT stops with saying that I had to update U-Boot to the latest version - but I think I already have the latest version.. Is this because Jeff's install rescue script is too old for knowing bhodi's current uboot?
I have been reading dozens of sites in this great forum for weeks now, for preparing the conversion of my GoFlex Net into something useful (newest UBoot + latest possible Debian) as good as possible. My plan was following the instructions here.
The result was a disaster, where seemingly everything went wrong as it could have had.
It started with Pogoplug not offering the checkbox for enabling SSH. I tried all options multiple times, like restting cookies, enabling UPnP, another webbrowser, but this damn checkbox wouldn't appear.
After this I wrote an email to pogoplug support, asking them for help. What I got was more an insult than any help.. they just sent me the standard form, telling me I should read the forum and whatever.. same for the next two emails I wrote them..
Ok, then. I remembered that I had an USB2serial converter, from some earlier projects and made it work with my GoFlex Net. I found some instructions on how to add an start entry for dropbear.sh into the rcS script - but there was no dropbear.sh in my device. So I tried to create my own dropbear.sh, added it into rcS and finally got SSH working.
Then I updated the bootloader, like said in Jeff's original instructions. (install_uboot_mtd0.sh).
After flashing I tried booting from the USB thumb drive I had prepared - but the GoFlexNet wouldn't boot or become accessible anymore.
So my next step was trying to recover the bootloader (U-Boot).
For making this short:
-serial console didn't work anymore and just showed garbled characters.
-kwtool didn't work at all, as it would always got "xmodem bad message".
But for luck I noticed, that when I started kwtool, reset the GoFlex and enabled serial console at the same time, I could actually get working access through console again.
As I still needed to repair the bootloader I tried achieving this by updating to the most recent bootloader, following bodhi's instructions here.
I set "fw_setenv dtb_file" because I stil had the old debain from Jeff's original post on my usb drive.
From then on I couldn't boot into debian anymore, because I always get the following error:
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/rootfs does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Could you please help me?
Edit:
I removed the old Debian on my USB drive and replaced it by the most recent Debian 4.4 from bodhi. Then I added the uEnv.txt file with dtb_file='/boot/dts/kirkwood-goflexnet.dtb'.
This actually worked and it can boot into Debian again.
I'm not sure on how to continue from here, as I still got no rescue system and I don't know if the other OS I got on USB now than the original tutorial makes a difference there..
Edit2:
Ok, I just tried the "./install_rescue.sh" scripts. IT stops with saying that I had to update U-Boot to the latest version - but I think I already have the latest version.. Is this because Jeff's install rescue script is too old for knowing bhodi's current uboot?