Failed installation of 2.4.1.1 on B3, B3 now not reachable

[Moloko]

Hi,

I made a re-install of my B3, with a fat23 formatted USB stick. My B3 is now not contactable...

The running version was 2.3 (I think...), and I wanted to make a quick upgrade install to the current 2.4.1.1 with a usb stick. The params changed in bubba.cfg were:

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FORMAT = 0
PARTITION = 0

The rest of the settings were unchanged.

I made the following during the setup procedure:
- I copied the unzipped install directory to my FAT32 formatted USB drive
- unplugged power from the B3, plugged in the USB drive
- pressed the power button und plugged the power chord in
- Front LED turns green, for about 5-10 minutes
- then it turnes purple and keeps purple for more than 45 minutes.
(thanks dickie!)

I have taken out B3 internal harddrive and plugged it via a USB cable directly to a computer running a live Ubuntu CD: the main hard drive partition is readable, but nontheless when inserted back into the Bubba casing the hard drive won't boot at all - the puple led is lit, no blue led is never ever lit.

I have been experimenting following the steps from http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?p=19792, it seems like a similar (same?) problem as I have.

When the hard drive is set back in B3 casing, I got it once to boot by omitting the following row of the LVM volume in fstab: (just like in the mentioned thread)

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/dev/mapper/bubba-storage   /home   ext3   defaults      0   2

But I couldn't get the LVM volume to mount, as in the mentioned thread I also get the same error when trying to mount LVM:

mount -t ext3 /dev/bubba/storage /mnt/mydata
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/bubba-storage,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

So, I have two problems/issues:
1. My B3 won't boot up to functional state, cannot get past the purple led status into the blue led status
2. I cannot mount the LVM volume, so all the user files are unaccesible... :/


Does anybody has an idea on how to get past the issues, so I can boot up B3 properly and mount the LVM area again??

[Nrde]

I wanted to make a quick upgrade install to the current 2.4.1.1

The current version is 2.5.1.2 Not sure if it helps with the installation though.

[Moloko]

I went though the official support page (http://www.excito.com/sv/content/manual ... laddningar) to download the B3 image, giving me the download page http://update.excito.net/install/latest/b3/ with

Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory -
b3-install-2.4.1.1.zip 12-Apr-2012 14:44 406M
b3-install-2.4.1.1.zip.sha1 12-Apr-2012 14:44 65
b3-install-2.4.1.1.zip.sha256 12-Apr-2012 14:44 89

Maybe Excito should start updating their own support pages??

I feel being fooled into my issue by Excito's out-of-date download page!

[RandomUsername]

I've got a feeling they didn't release an installer for 2.5.x, you new to install 2.4 and then update.

[Moloko]

It could be so, but what is the reason for doing that way?

Either way, it doesn't help me much right now in my problem...

[virus]

Hi,

are you sure that the install starts? (HDD aktivity on red LED)...
I tryed 6 times and the LED change the color from green to purpel. Than i change the USB Stick an the b3 starts formating the HDD (LED aktivity on kensington-hole and maybe noises)...
Greets
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[Moloko]

Whatever, I've just reformatted the sh*t and will stitch together the user files from the various backups. I just wanted to get the failing LVM area a go, hoping it would be a shorter distance to a fully operational B3...

This thread can be closed, the issue exists no more...