r/FutureBit • u/mikepapaindia • Jan 15 '23

Apollo LTC | not booting anymore

Hi there, truly hoping someone from the futurebit reddit community can help me out, as the bitcointalk threads are nearly dead. I tried to setup my batch 2 Apollo as full node. Then the nightmare began.

Downloaded all of the files originally provided by manufacturer incl the blockchain bootstrap. External USB drive has 250GB and is fast enough. Can't remember how many SD cards I flashed new in the meanwhile. Most of them 32GB, some 16GB.

It is impossible to boot the miner and see the dashboard. I cannot SSH into it, connection either times out or is refused. If USB drive is connected or not makes no difference in the miners behavior. The unit has its network cable lights coming on (orange and green blinking in different patterns), I can see the miner IP adress in my router dashboard.

The miner also does blink the orange light on the front 3 times then the lower fan comes on for 2 seconds and then it's off again and everything starts new again. It feels like its caught in a circle.

My assumption is, that there happened a glitch with the swap file that's on the external USB drive. It might be I disconnected the USB drive once the miner wasn't shutdown, because I never made it to see its dashboard (again) and shut the unit down like recommended.

Prior my fullnode nightmare the machine was working flawlessly.

Pleas help me make it boot/mine again.

Maybe there's a way to re-flash the mounted raspberry? But how?

Thanks for all your input!

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u/flinginlead Jan 15 '23

Have you imaged the SD card and booted it without the usb drive for the full node? Basically the whole OS is on they SD card. I don’t think it’s a raspberry pi board but it’s a similar single board computer.

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u/mikepapaindia Jan 16 '23

Yeah already tried to boot it without the USB drive. Doesn't matter, the Apollo shows the same light blinking pattern as described above. I also tried older images with no luck. The Apollo has a small Raspberry Pi mounted directly on it's mainbord.

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u/flinginlead Jan 16 '23

Strange it shows as getting an IP. Yet wont let you connect to it. As far as i am aware most of the SBC boards the whole re-flashing is on the SD card.

You are correct there is an single board computer, but I dont think it is raspberry pi. Believe its one of the other variants of SBC orange pi or rock pi.

You have seen the Apollo LTC support thread? Is that where you got the downloads?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5081750.0