dockstar sid/jessie usb-root issue

Hi,

After upgrading to jessie I am stuck with a non-booting installation.
It looks like usb modules are not loaded at right stage during the boot process.
I have tried to load the modules manually with no luck either.

Linux (none) 3.9-1-kirkwood #1 Debian 3.9.6-1 armv5tel armv5tel

Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
 - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
   - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
   - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT!  /dev/sda2 does not exist.  Dropping to [   43.589654] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
a shell!
[   43.596562] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   43.602069] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   43.609432] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[   43.616679] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[   43.637647] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[   43.653128] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[   43.671370] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[   43.680848] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   43.686446] usbhid: USB HID core driver

(initramfs) cat /proc/modules
usbhid 34741 0 - Live 0xbf098000
hid 72311 1 usbhid, Live 0xbf07f000
ohci_hcd 18628 0 - Live 0xbf076000
uhci_hcd 20267 0 - Live 0xbf06d000
ehci_pci 3142 0 - Live 0xbf069000
ehci_hcd 34116 1 ehci_pci, Live 0xbf05b000
usbcore 132046 5 usbhid,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_pci,ehci_hcd, Live 0xbf028000
usb_common 648 1 usbcore, Live 0xbf024000
mv643xx_eth 24159 0 - Live 0xbf010000
inet_lro 4293 1 mv643xx_eth, Live 0xbf00b000
libphy 17615 1 mv643xx_eth, Live 0xbf000000

(initramfs) cat /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=10 rootfstype=ext2 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data) root=/dev/sda2

(initramfs) cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

  31        0       1024 mtdblock0
  31        1       4096 mtdblock1
  31        2      32768 mtdblock2
  31        3     224256 mtdblock3

Any suggestions?

Cheers
tree

@tree,

What instruction did you use to generate the initrd.img-3.9-1-kirkwood ? was it generated automatically by flash-kernel when you upgrade to jessie? If it was, try to install the kernel deb package again. But before doing that, remove flash-kernel. And then afer successfully install kernel 3.9-1-kirkwood, generate the uImage and uInitrd manually:

mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-3.9.1-kirkwood -d /boot/vmlinuz-3.9.1-kirkwood /boot/uImage
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.9.1-kirkwood  -d /boot/initrd.img-3.9.1-kirkwood /boot/uInitrd

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Hi bodhi

1. removed flash-kernel
2. ran apt-get update which updated the kernel package to 3.9.8-1
3. executed the mkimage command manually

same issue.

cheers
t

i did a fresh install from the kirkwood.debian-wheezy.sh script and changed this one line to have it load testing (jessie) instead. this also is on a dockstar.

# debootstrap configuration
RELEASE=testing  <---CHANGED THIS FROM WHEEZY
VARIANT=minbase
ARCH=armel

and it downloaded and everything looked good, but after rebooting it gives the same error...

Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
 - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
   - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
   - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT!  /dev/sda1 does not exist.  Dropping to [   28.921203] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
a shell!
[   28.928456] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   28.933959] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   28.941275] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[   28.950672] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[   28.969647] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[   28.985134] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[   29.003345] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[   29.012770] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   29. 018368] usbhid: USB HID core driver

anyone have any thoughts? are there modules missing or something?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2013 04:40PM by troutsoup.

just did a plain vanilla wheezy install then used this kernel:

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096

i ended up removng the virtual package for the linux image for kirkwood:

[REMOVE] linux-image-kirkwood:armel

it kept trying to push that 9.3.1 or whatever kernel that refuses to load

after that i went into the apt settings and changed em over to testing and it all seem pretty good so far.

are updating kernels always going to be a nightmare? honestly if i can get my 3G card working on wheezy i'm staying there. i used to like to muck around in testing, but now i just want things to work! also if a kernel upgrade borks things, does uboot have an option to boot a specific kernel, so you can get in and fix things real quick?

it would be nice if apt just updated the kernels and made the uImage and the uInitramfs correctly and the kernel didnt bork up stuff...someday! linux has gotten more organized since the early days!

Been running into that problem when updating to jessie. Has anyone found a solution yet, besides using a different kernel?

I ran into the same problem, and found this hint:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/06/msg01283.html

I could fix it with:

echo "ehci-orion" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-3.10-2-kirkwood
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n initramfs-3.10-2-kirkwood -d /boot/initrd.img-3.10-2-kirkwood /boot/uInitrd