Bodhi and everyone else here: you've done some amazing work. I wanted to honor that and not end up needing help but...
I started to flash my Pogoplug v4-A3-01 years ago with some tutorial but abandoned the project. I started it again recently and found that I could boot into Arch with root:root. I tried picking up Qui Hong's tutorial but his links are down, so I tried a combination of that and Bodhi's 2016.05 tutorial. When I rebooted (the "cross your fingers" part), it no longer boots into the USB drive I was using or the SD card, which I formatted in the tutorial (with both or either inserted). I removed the power cord to power cycle and the status light immediately blinks/flashes green for about ten seconds then goes dark for a second or two and begins the cycle again. (I assume that it's restarting during that pause.) Just as it goes dark, the ethernet jack briefly lights both orange and green. I formatted another SD card with the Debian-4.4 in case it was a file system issue and had the same result (also that wouldn't explain why the unmodified USB drive used for the original flash no longer registers). When I formatted this SD card, it was formerly FAT 32 and while its partition is ext3, the `pttype="dos"` instead of "gpt" when I run blkid—not sure if that's an issue. The device doesn't go solid green so I can't SSH and netconnect is not installed. Would you know whether this is a bad flash or what I might need to do to restart and try over?
Appreciate your help. I'd be willing to rewrite the Qui tutorial with your updated materials so that future installs can go more smoothly. I still have another Pogoplug Mobile I'd like to try, but hopefully I can get this v4 up if it isn't bricked.
I started to flash my Pogoplug v4-A3-01 years ago with some tutorial but abandoned the project. I started it again recently and found that I could boot into Arch with root:root. I tried picking up Qui Hong's tutorial but his links are down, so I tried a combination of that and Bodhi's 2016.05 tutorial. When I rebooted (the "cross your fingers" part), it no longer boots into the USB drive I was using or the SD card, which I formatted in the tutorial (with both or either inserted). I removed the power cord to power cycle and the status light immediately blinks/flashes green for about ten seconds then goes dark for a second or two and begins the cycle again. (I assume that it's restarting during that pause.) Just as it goes dark, the ethernet jack briefly lights both orange and green. I formatted another SD card with the Debian-4.4 in case it was a file system issue and had the same result (also that wouldn't explain why the unmodified USB drive used for the original flash no longer registers). When I formatted this SD card, it was formerly FAT 32 and while its partition is ext3, the `pttype="dos"` instead of "gpt" when I run blkid—not sure if that's an issue. The device doesn't go solid green so I can't SSH and netconnect is not installed. Would you know whether this is a bad flash or what I might need to do to restart and try over?
Appreciate your help. I'd be willing to rewrite the Qui tutorial with your updated materials so that future installs can go more smoothly. I still have another Pogoplug Mobile I'd like to try, but hopefully I can get this v4 up if it isn't bricked.