Reflash help needed!

[mshoemaker]

I received my plug around the middle of July, and promptly started using it and loved it.  I had installed a lot of programs however and want to hook up an external disk, so that it can either boot the file system from the disk or from the NAND.

So to this end I figured I would use the plug installer and update uboot and reflash the plug before I messed with an external drive.  Well now everything has gone wrong.  uBoot has been updated I think, I watch as the installer runs through its process and completes, all the while watching the console of the plug as well.  I have 4 different flash drives, and two different SD cards in a usb adapter, and not a single one of them will work while using the updater.  I think on each I got an error trying to pull from the flash saying it timed out and then that the device wasn't ready.  I then tried the directs supplied on the CD that came with the plug.  I tried the usb recovery which produced the same result, I end up with a bad data crc error.  I then tried to use tftp.  This at least allowed uboot to download the image and it looks like it flashed the plug, however now I get a kernel panic when the system boots.

I don't have access to the plug right now, but I will when I get home in a few hours.

Any thoughts, suggestions, questions?

Thank you for any help!
Matthew

[Rabeeh Khoury]

Hi,

Can you please provide complete dump of what you see on your host Linux and the console when using the alpha-6 installer?

[birdman]

You are not alone.  Other have seen some USB sticks fail.
Points that have cropped up (IIRC):
a) Has to be FAT32
b) Has to be directly on the partition (e.g. /dev/sda1) not on the whole device (e.g. /dev/sda) 
c) The USB stick has to be 2GB or less.

[mshoemaker]

Thanks, I will grab the dumps as soon as I can.

What I can say is all my flash drives are 2gb or less.  I only have three brands.  SanDisk flash drives and one SD card, then an Edge SD card, and a MobileMate flash drive.  None of them worked right, while the mobile mate and the sd cards would actually act like they were starting to read.

Also, I had used fdisk on all of them, creating a new fat32 partition on them, then formatting them to match.

I then did indeed just copy the contents of the install directory onto the root of the flash drive.

Thank you again, I will try to get the dumps, unfortunately probably not until tomorrow.

Matthew

[mshoemaker]

Well I gave the reflash another shot around a week or two ago, this time using an unpowered usb 2.0 hub.  I launched the installer and everything actually completed.  So my plug is back up and working.

Matthew