SOLVED - Was USB Issue - Help! Can't find Meteohub -no IP...

[sevenless]

<3>VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.

The above line makes me think there was an error during the creation of the disk image on your new USB drive. Did you use a tool such has h2testw.exe (available in the "Tools" section of the downloads page) to verify the USB drive before installation?

If your new USB drive is okay and a dd copy of the v3.0 image reports success, but you are still having problems like the ones you mention above, then I'd suggest that you try installing the v2.6 disk image (which I can personally verify works) and then incrementally upgrade it to v3.0 after successful bootup.

(update):
I've looked at my own dmesg output and here are the only differences up until the point your bootup fails.

Yours says (about 12 lines from the bottom of your dmesg output)...

<7>sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
<3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sda: sda1

Whereas mine (which works) says...

<7>sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
<3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3

After that mine goes on to start the EXT3 file system and does standard data checks and bootup, while yours starts outputting the error messages about not finding the proper file system and other problems.

I'm not a Linux expert so I don't know what "Mode Sense" means or if that's important (it could just be a difference having to do with different brands of USB stick), but clearly your disk is missing two partitions (sda2 and sda3) and that means the disk image did not install correctly.

[AAMFlyer]

I didn't test it but I will if the current process doesn't work. I'm trying right now the method of transferring the disk image through the actual meteohub process - but so far its been processing almost 1.5 hours and still blinking..... Ughhhh!

[AAMFlyer]

Well - I think some process in the instructions manual is not correct - because it simply doesn't work. First QUESTION - how do you recover a USB Stick after an image has been mounted or have I just ruined another USB Stick following the process in the manual. I'm working off of a Vista 64bit machine and here is what I did..

I bought another brand new USB 2gb stick. I ran it through the Tester from the tools - no problems and works great. I then mounted V2.6 2gb dd file using DiskImage as instructed in the manual. That went fine and seemed to work with no problems. Put it in the meteohub and once again nothing - no access etc.... The process does not work! I think it has something to do with FAT - but not sure - but whatever is going on - it does not work and now it looks like I'm out another USB Stick that has an image mounted on it and I can't seem to restore it to original condition!

Here is what I get from SSH logon...

<6> sda: sda1
<5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
<7>usb-storage: device scan complete
<3>VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
<6>IXP4XX Q Manager 0.2.1 initialized.
<6>ixp4xx_mac driver 0.3.1: eth0 on NPE-B with PHY[1] initialized
<3>FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
<3>FAT: invalid media value (0x00)
<6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
<6>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
<7>Link of eth0 is full-duplex

My only thought left is to go through the process again with another USB Stick - but do it from my XP machine....not sure if that has any bearing...???????????

[admin]

My observation from your postings is that diskimage did not put the contents of the file to the stick as raw data but put it into partition 1 of the stick.

When you scroll down the list of target devices in diskimage, you will find "Physical Devices". Use the one that is your USB stick (can be determined by size) and it should do.

[AAMFlyer]

Well - that's what I did - I think... I see in Disk Image that I have 2 choices - one is F Drive: which matches my stick and one is Physical disk - which also matches - which do I use? I've used F Drive - should I use Physical Disk Instead?

Duh - I just re-read your post - see last post below...sorry!

[AAMFlyer]

Trying again

[AAMFlyer]

Okay - I just re-read your post - sorry! I will try it again as physical disk.....

[AAMFlyer]

YEAH!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!!! Now I just have to try and recover my data from the old USB Stick using your earlier instructions - haven't done that yet....

I'm back up and that was the key using physcial disk rather than Drive - actually me reading the manual and being more literal was the key. Duhh..

Chill - if your creating a disk image using disk image - then make sure you select Physical Disk instead of Drive like I did....

Thanks - now I just need to see about setting it up again and transferring my data from the old stick...