Posts by cadre

Thanks for the reply, but just to clarify I mis-spoke earlier. Actually I tried a USB Hard drive which is a Memorex 8gb with a spinning Seagate microdrive installed in it.

Then I tried a Sandisk Cruzer Professional 8gb USB Flash drive (I know it's not recommended) but got the exact same results as before.

Both times debian is installed and written to the first USB partition, but it's just not booting off of it.

Is there anything that I can do to check, verify, set, whatever as to why uboot just isn't booting off the usb?

I will try a full size 2.5" or 3.5" usb hard drive, but something just doesn't seem right?

Alright, I'm probably over looking something but I can't seem to get the initial OS install to boot. I'm using a POGO-E02, with a 8GB USB (seagate CF installed inside) that I created a 6.5Gb primary partition and a remaining 750mb swap partition. /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2

So after about three attempts to install the base OS (must have had some internet ISP issues) it finally finished and prompted for a reboot.

Now I did not remove power for a cold start, but after the reboot it loaded up the pogoplug software, hence the "Pogoplug:~$" prompt.

Issuing a "uname -a" returns "Linux Pogoplug 2.6.22.18 #81 Tue Oct 19 16:05:00 PDT 2010 armv5tejl unknown" so it's still booting of the NAND.

I went to the /tmp for a listing and did not find a debian folder. So I created one and mounted /dev/sda1 to /tmp/debian.

I then went to the /tmp/debian/boot folder and do see the following files listed:
System.map-2.6.32-5-kirkwood config-2.6.32-5-kirkwood initrd.img-2.6.32-5-kirkwood vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-kirkwood

So, Debian did install but I'm having the same problem.

How exactly do I get this to boot off the connected USB drive? What did I do wrong?

Any help would be appreciated

ridnhard19
I ran into the exact same problem as you. I did a clean install from the 0.3 amd64 (because 0.4 amd64 ISO doesn't like COM ports) and the proceeded to upgrade to 0.4.

But if you followed the WIKI page exactly (like I did too) the process does break. Good news is that I found a simple solution.

After editing the openmediavault.list for 0.4, the correct following commands are as follows:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot

you have to do another apt-get upgrade that will install parted (and others that I can't remember now) first before actually installing OMV 0.4.
Doing that will smoothly take you to the current version.

Hope this helps since I could replicated the problem, hopefully the WIKI page will be updated...

Just to clarify, you need to check your computer bios, the motherboard bios; IF you have a motherboard with an Intel chipset for "Active Power Management." If this is enabled, disable it.

It doesn't matter what type of add-in card that you have, PCI-express or whatever.

Save yourself some time and verify this setting before doing any other troubleshooting...

This may be a long shot, but definitely worth checking if you haven't already.

I have seen properly setup and configured trunking on different systems do this same behavior if running certain Intel chipsets with the BIOS in the motherboard configured to have "Active State Power Management" enabled.

Even if you are using a Intel add-in card, I would double check the motherboard bios under the "chipset" options to see if that is enabled, if so disable it.

I know this would be for a debian OS, but for what it's worth I installed ubuntu 12.04 x64 mini on a Intel ss4200 to a 60g ide drive connected to the PATA port. With only the 60g IDE drive connected (and a USB CD-Rom boot/install disk) I went into the bios and configured the IDE mode as compatible (this mode will only display or access two PATA devices and the first two SATA ports). Install the OS as you normally would against the IDE drive and the reboot the system. So at least for the Intel ss4200 running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 I had to load the "pata_legacy" module to have the PATA port accessible in Ubuntu when the bios IDE mode is changed from compatible to enhanced mode. after adding, loading, the pata_legacy module and issuing the update-initramfs -u command I then rebooted the system and changed the bios IDE mode to enhanced and continued to boot the system off the 60g ide drive successfully. After that worked, I shutdown the system and added my 4 SATA drives and rebooted the system to see that all 5 drives were accessible to ubuntu while the bios is running in ide enhanced mode.

hope this helps someone...