Re: Pogoplug E02: Squeeze install not booting multiple USB

HDgaming42,

Some users had problem in installing Rescue System lately, so it could bring you more headache. Since you have netconsole, there is less need for Rescue System (for recovery purpose). Rescue system mainly used when you can't boot the system because the rootfs has errrors. But if you take precaution such as backup, and use EXT3 file system, then chance is that you will never see the Rescue system booting.

You have Debian system running now with my 3.10.4 rootfs. It's perfectly fine to continue using it (I created it for this purpose). Or if you like to build your own system from scratch, then fix your rootfs as following:

- Boot up your system with the 3.10.4 stick, log in to Debian as root user.
- Plug your USB stick in, it will become /sdb1. And mount it to /media/sdb1 (or wherever you like). If /media does not exists, then create it first.

mkdir /media
mkdir /media/sdb1

mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1

- Create uImage and uInitrd manually:

cd /media/sdb1/boot

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-2.6.32-5-kirkwood -d /media/sdb1/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-kirkwood /media/sdb1/boot/uImage 
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-2.6.32-5-kirkwood -d  /media/sdb1/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-kirkwood  /media/sdb1/boot/uInitrd

cd /media
sync
umount /media/sdb1

- Shutdown system
shutdown -h now

- Power on with your USB installation stick only.