Switch Seagate dockstar from ARCH to debian (5 replies)

Hey all, wondering if someone can point me in the right direction here:

I've got an old seagate dockstar I converted to run ARCH linux years ago. I boot from various USB devices hooked to the 1st USB port (the one that was supposed to be for th dock on top).

It boots the most recent version of ARCH downloaded from archlinuxarm.org, no issues, right out of the box.

BUT, I'd really rather run debian. I have a bunch of Pogo-plug mobiles all running debian & all my other 'real' boxes run debian, so I just don't want to have the 'lone' dockstar being the only one running ARCH. Anyway, it won't boot a debian image.

I have two images I've tried:

debian-wheezy-dockstar-130512.tar.xz

and

Debian-3.14.0-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar

uboot finds the image just fine, the kernel boots, but then we get to

"Waiting for root device /dev/sda1" & it hangs.

I'm guessing that it's either a uboot enviroment parameter, OR that I simply need to update/change the uboot install (it does say "Arch Linux" when uboot starts.
But, not being a u-boot guru, I'm not sure which. I don' want to muck up this old piece of hardware, I'd rather put it back to work.

Anyone? Bueller?