Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

bodhi — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:54:42 -0600

Big Pogo Fan Wrote:
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> The config file in the first post is not available
> .
> Can someone upload it again ?
> Thanks in advance.

See this thread for newer kernel, if that's what you are looking for:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Big Pogo Fan — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:44:58 -0600

The config file in the first post is not available .
Can someone upload it again ?
Thanks in advance.

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

gee-man — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:06:30 -0600

Is it safe to apply the patch file from 3.3.2 to the 3.12 kernel source and then build it with the 3.3.2 kernel configuration?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

shv — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:38:51 -0600

Just use the link Kirkwood Downloads from the first post and you can find everything you need.

- shv

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

bodhi — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:33:49 -0600

gee-man Wrote:
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> Hi, can someone post the kernel config again? The
> link in post #1 is not working anymore... Also,
> was this kernel built with any sort of patch
> files?
>
> Thanks,

You can find the kernel config file in /boot directory. Should be something like this:
config-3.3.2.xx-kirkwood-xxx

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

gee-man — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:11:38 -0600

Hi, can someone post the kernel config again? The link in post #1 is not working anymore... Also, was this kernel built with any sort of patch files?

Thanks,

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Tim — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:32:29 -0500

Ben, I had the same error but continued and am now at 3.9.5 everything worked fine here

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

wolfgangn — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:03:25 -0500

Hi again,

I got my serial cable, here is the output of a 3.8.4 kernel:

.........
[ 30.989456] md: ... autorun DONE.
[ 30.992888] VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 31.000940] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 31.009337] 1f00 1024 mtdblock0 (driver?)
[ 31.014418] 1f01 4096 mtdblock1 (driver?)
[ 31.019510] 1f02 32768 mtdblock2 (driver?)
[ 31.024592] 1f03 224256 mtdblock3 (driver?)
[ 31.029686] 0800 3915776 sda driver: sd
[ 31.034333] 0801 3711697 sda1 99b8a5b2-01
[ 31.039252] 0802 203280 sda2 99b8a5b2-02
[ 31.044161] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 31.052488] [] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [] (panic+0x78/0x1d4)
[ 31.060718] [] (panic+0x78/0x1d4) from [] (mount_block_root+0x268/0x2bc)
[ 31.069204] [] (mount_block_root+0x268/0x2bc) from [] (prepare_namespace+0x120/0x180)
[ 31.078821] [] (prepare_namespace+0x120/0x180) from [] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4)
[ 31.087745] [] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4) from [] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)

The USB stick is labeled "rootfs":
/dev/sda1: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="f260bcee-8c9d-4e41-a795-752752e9b152" TYPE="ext2"

And the environment is set up to "rootfs" label:
usb_init=run usb_scan ; setenv usb_root LABEL=rootfs

What did I miss?

*** THIS IS SOLVED, I tried SHYD´s 3.9.5 kernel and it worked out of the box, I have no idea what his kernel includes/excludes, but it works :-) ***

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

mgiammarco — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:32:56 -0500

Hi,
have you found kernel headers?

Thanks,
Mario

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

wolfgangn — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:26:54 -0500

Deleted the file, but still does not boot. I think I have to get a serial cable to see what fails...

Thank you for your reply!

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

chessplayer — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:23:05 -0500

@wolfgangn,

when updating to wheezy just the other day, I ran into a problem I had long since forgotten: when using the same stick on different machines, it seemingly leads to the second one not "booting", when, in fact, it just does not get an IP-Address. In netconsole, it will look as if it was stuck at "Starting kernel ..." The reason is the file

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

which is newly generated via

/lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules

Myself, I always remove these two files and never had any problem with that.

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

wolfgangn — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:14:14 -0500

Yes the uBoot is recent. I am certain because i also tried a fresh install of wheezy with another usb stick. The install script did check the uBoot and reported an up-to-date one and did not flash a new one.

Sadly i don´t own a serial cable and can not provide any more info other than the netconsole output which stops at "Starting kernel...". What do you mean by changing the machid? I don´t even know what that is :-)

EDIT: Sorry, didn´t read the complete thread you posted. I will try the machid setting tomorrow..

EDIT 2: Did try "c11" for machid ( because of arcNumber=3089 ), did not boot. Tried "dd6", not even the rescue system from nand would boot anymore and i had to fix it via netconsole. What is the correct setting for a Goflex Net?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Sven — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:32:51 -0500

Did you already update your uBoot?
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,6965

But be careful - for some reason I needed to change my machid after this update to get any kernel up and running.
But I assume, you have a working serial console, don't you?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

wolfgangn — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:22:32 -0500

Hi,

I tried many kernels, including this 3.8.4 from prodigy7. But none of them will boot, my Goflex Net is stuck at "Starting kernel...". The 3.3.2-kirkwood-dg kernel boots fine from an ext2 usb stick and two SATA HDD attached. Any ideas what is wrong with my config? This is my environment:

ethact=egiga0
bootdelay=3
baudrate=115200
mainlineLinux=yes
console=ttyS0,115200
led_init=green blinking
led_exit=green off
led_error=orange blinking
mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data)
mtdids=nand0=orion_nand
partition=nand0,2
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
rescue_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0:rootfs ro rootfstype=ubifs $mtdparts $rescue_custom_params
rescue_bootcmd=if test $rescue_installed -eq 1; then run rescue_set_bootargs; nand read.e 0x800000 0x100000 0x400000; bootm 0x800000; else run pogo_bootcmd; fi
pogo_bootcmd=if fsload uboot-original-mtd0.kwb; then go 0x800200; fi
force_rescue=0
force_rescue_bootcmd=if test $force_rescue -eq 1 || ext2load usb 0:1 0x1700000 /rescueme 1 || fatload usb 0:1 0x1700000 /rescueme.txt 1; then run rescue_bootcmd; fi
ubifs_mtd=3
ubifs_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console ubi.mtd=$ubifs_mtd root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs $mtdparts $ubifs_custom_params
ubifs_bootcmd=run ubifs_set_bootargs; if ubi part data && ubifsmount rootfs && ubifsload 0x800000 /boot/uImage && ubifsload 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; fi
usb_scan=usb_scan_done=0;for scan in $usb_scan_list; do run usb_scan_$scan; if test $usb_scan_done -eq 0 && ext2load usb $usb 0x800000 /boot/uImage 1; then usb_scan_done=1; echo "Found bootable drive on usb $usb"; setenv usb_device $usb; setenv usb_root /dev/$dev; fi; done
usb_scan_list=1 2 3 4
usb_scan_1=usb=0:1 dev=sda1
usb_scan_2=usb=1:1 dev=sdb1
usb_scan_3=usb=2:1 dev=sdc1
usb_scan_4=usb=3:1 dev=sdd1
usb_device=0:1
usb_root=/dev/sda1
usb_rootfstype=ext2
usb_rootdelay=10
usb_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console root=$usb_root rootdelay=$usb_rootdelay rootfstype=$usb_rootfstype $mtdparts $usb_custom_params
usb_bootcmd=run usb_init; run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot
usb_boot=mw 0x800000 0 1; ext2load usb $usb_device 0x800000 /boot/uImage; if ext2load usb $usb_device 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; else bootm 0x800000; fi
bootcmd=usb start; run force_rescue_bootcmd; run ubifs_bootcmd; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; run rescue_bootcmd; run pogo_bootcmd; reset
ethaddr=00:10:75:26:69:81
rescue_installed=1
arcNumber=3089
serverip=10.11.11.20
ipaddr=10.11.11.30
if_netconsole=ping $serverip
preboot=run if_netconsole start_netconsole
start_netconsole=setenv ncip 10.11.11.20; setenv bootdelay 10; setenv stdin nc; setenv stdout nc; setenv stderr nc; version;
usb_init=run usb_scan ; setenv usb_root LABEL=rootfs

Regards,
Wolfgang

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

HellG — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:52:31 -0500

prodigy7 Wrote:
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. So if the package is
> installed with dpkg, directly the uImage and
> uInitrd is refreshed in /boot and nothing more is
> to do!
... except maybe to save the old uImage and uInitrd before the installation. But thank you, I always had to look for the commands to create the files in the forum.

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

prodigy7 — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:51:25 -0500

Ok, here is the 3.8.4 kernel, compiled with ipv6 and netfilter (iptables) support:
http://download.prodigy7.de/files/packages/kirkwood/kernel/

Because I've changed the name from dockstar to kirkwood, the dpkg package manager detect the kernel type and install the kernel additionally with mkimage on pogo plug v2. So if the package is installed with dpkg, directly the uImage and uInitrd is refreshed in /boot and nothing more is to do!

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

prodigy7 — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:29:36 -0500

Just for the records: If compiling with make-kpkg fails, try the following command.

DEB_HOST_ARCH=armel fakeroot make-kpkg --arch arm --cross-compile arm-none-linux-gnueabi- --append-to-version=-kirkwood --revision=1.0 --initrd -j 2 kernel_image kernel_headers

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Sven — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:10:05 -0500

All credits go to Jeff and Davygravy:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,524

But in newer crosscompile you'll need to use a workaround to compile armel packages... I'll try to find my steps to use tomorrow... (but I found it somewhere here or using Google...)

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

prodigy7 — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:14:25 -0500

Hi sven!

Thx for your quick response! Currently I compile a kernel with ipv6 enabled on my pogo plug (it takes a little bit time ;-) ). If so far it contains all I need, I would post the modified config file. If you could give me a quick how to, i would also generate a deb-Package!

prodigy7

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Sven — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:10:40 -0500

I tried to keep it as small as possible, but you're right - I could have compiled it at least with IPv6 modules...

You could do so yourself using the provided DIFF to apply the changes to the original kernel:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.8.4.tar.bz2

Otherwise please apply all your changes to the .config and send this, so I'll compile it for you.
If you are not familiar with all of this - do you want IPv6 modules, or included in the kernel?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

prodigy7 — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:59:19 -0500

Sven Wrote:
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> You could try my 3.8.4 with NSA320 enabled:
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ifotsfsca9kqg7q/Dda2OXW
> SdZ

Hi Sven,

thank you very much for your refreshed kernel version. Could you maybe compile a ipv6 enabled version for me? For different reasons I can run the box only in a ipv6 network and currently I can't reach the box with your kernel because you've disabled the complete ipv6 support.
Would be very happy if that would be possible!

Thx!
prodigy7

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

HellG — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:16:48 -0500

I am using the uboot provided by davygravy in the first post here: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,7806. Do you think the error could be uboot related?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

gaogao — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:03:05 -0500

HellG Wrote:
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> Thank you, install in progress...
> Reboot... Works!
> ssh -l root nas.... Works!
> uname -a: "Linux nas 3.8.4-dockstar #2 Wed Mar 27
> 17:10:47 CET 2013 armv5tel GNU/Linux"
>
> So far, so good! I will see during the next days
> if I will have XFS errors again. Thanks again.

which uboot are you using?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

HellG — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:59:15 -0500

Thank you, install in progress...
Reboot... Works!
ssh -l root nas.... Works!
uname -a: "Linux nas 3.8.4-dockstar #2 Wed Mar 27 17:10:47 CET 2013 armv5tel GNU/Linux"

So far, so good! I will see during the next days if I will have XFS errors again. Thanks again.

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Sven — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:00:37 -0500

You could try my 3.8.4 with NSA320 enabled:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ifotsfsca9kqg7q/Dda2OXWSdZ

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

HellG — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:13:10 -0500

Hi,
does anybody use xfs filesystem with this kernel? I have my data on a xfs filesystem and face problems now and then that the filesystem cannot be mounted after reboot and I have to manually repair (with "-L" to wipe the journal) it. First I thought it is related to my old disks (WD10EACS, 5 years) on a GoFlex Net but after changing to a NSA320 with brand new harddisks (WD10EURX) I have the same problems.
Is there maybe another kernel version available for the NSA320 I could use and see if I still face the same errors?

HellG

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

bambo — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:49:34 -0500

ok, thanks a lot!
------------------

next problem, I wanted to boot 3.2.0 stock wheezy I had in /boot

so I tried to make it like this

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.2.0-4 -d /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-kirkwood /boot/uImage
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n Initrd-3.2.0-4 -d /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood /boot/uInitrd

netconsole output is ok, but Linux don't boot. How I can restore my last bootable kernel?
I was so euphoric so I didn't made a backup image of my system.

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Sven — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:15:41 -0500

It just takes the files out of /dev/sda1 - and inside /boot/ dir.
But your boot is located on a separate partition:

Quote

/dev/sda1 on /boot

So a simple workaround to avoid these problems is to put a symbolic link named 'boot' to point to itself on this partition. Don't know why this was renamed to boot1 on your partition and there was another boot dir on it...

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

bambo — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:02:22 -0500

~Sven

root@pogo:/boot/# sfdisk -d /dev/sda
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start=     2048, size=   450560, Id=83, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start=   452608, size=  5306368, Id=83
/dev/sda3 : start=  5758976, size=  2095104, Id=82
/dev/sda4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
root@pogo:/boot/# mount
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=125224k,nr_inodes=31306,mode=755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=25552k,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=260600k)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (ro,relatime,errors=continue)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
root@pogo:~/# 
root@pogo:~/# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# 						
#/dev/root	/		ext2	noatime,errors=remount-ro 0	1
/dev/sda1	/boot		ext2	ro			0	0
/dev/sda2	/		ext4	noatime			0	1
/dev/sda3	none		swap	sw			0	0
tmpfs		/tmp		tmpfs	defaults		0	0

So I copy the stuff from /boot to /boot/boot and voilà 3.8.4 Kernel booted! I don't understand the mechanist why it's happen, but you guys are saints.

Why uBoot takes /boot/boot stuff for booting?

Re: Linux 3.3.2 kernel for Dockstar, GoFlex and many others

Sven — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:27:12 -0500

Well - but it still looks funny. 'mkimage' reports the same sizes as you can see in the listing, but uBoot does read other files:

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Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
2081852 bytes read
Loading file "/boot/uInitrd" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
5035488 bytes read

What's the content of /boot/boot?
And can you additionally tell us something about your partitioning? The output of 'sfdisk -d /dev/sda' and 'mount'?

Maybe it's sufficient to change the link and dir inside your boot (partition?):

mv /boot/boot /boot/boot.dir
mv /boot/boot1 /boot/boot