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I recently tried to update my B2 to the 2.4.1 software image. I followed the instructions on the Wiki, setting FORMAT = 0 and PARTITION = 0 in bubba.cfg. Everything appeared to work, including the reboot: LED flashes at 1 Hz, then turns solid lit. However, the B2 does not acquire an IP address from my router's DHCP server. Today I borrowed a USB-to-SATA adapter from a friend and mounted the B2 drive on my laptop. The disk has three partitions: "Bubba root", an LVM partition, and a swap partition. I mounted the LVM partition and my /home directory is still intact. Next I went to the Bubba root, but /var/log is missing. Only /lock and /run exist under /var. Without any kind of log during Bubba boot or from the installation, I'm now totally stuck at what the next trouble-shooting step would be.

I checked out /boot and found 5 files:
8313E21.dtb
bubba.dtb
config-2.6.39.4-9
System.map-2.6.39.4.-9
uImage

Perhaps there is some clue here as to what is going wrong with the install process?

Thank you very much for any possible help,
-Forrest

seems you did everything right. Something may have hiccuped during install and the install did not finish... Did you retry the installation? As a precaution a disk check may be an idea but it's not probable that this is the cause of your problem.

I did retry the installation multiple times, with the same results.

I finally got the installation working by doing two things at once. I used a different USB stick, and I allowed the installer to repartition the drive. I know, it's not a very satisfying bit of troubleshooting on my part. I'm not sure if the the USB stick was the problem or something was wonky with my partitions (I don't remember ever changing them though)

Anyways, I want to thank Excito for offering to take the B2 in for diagnosis. It's really commendable for a company to stand by a product that is no longer for sale.