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Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)

Posted by phloks 
Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 19, 2026 11:23AM
Hi Bodhi,

Hope that you are still monitoring this forum...

I created an ext3 USB drive (labeled rootfs), and decompressed the following file on it:
Debian-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

I'm trying to get an old Lenovo/iomega ix2-200 to run Debian.
I know the .bz2 file is really old, but to create an USB drive I needed this bz2 file to start with. Later on, when everything works out, I will try to used the latest file from November 6 last year.

I used minicom to follow the boot sequence, and stopped the boot sequence to set the environment variables.
The variables I used were these :

setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial'
setenv load_uimage 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage'
setenv load_uinitrd 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x2100000 /boot/uInitrd'
setenv usb_boot 'mw 0x800000 0 1; run load_uimage; run load_uinitrd; bootm 0x800000 0x2100000'
setenv usb_bootcmd 'run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot'
setenv bootcmd 'usb start; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; reset'

Looking at this, I now realize that the 0xnnnnn values are probably wrong for my ix2-200.
Any hint as to where I can find the correct values to load the uImage and uInitrd ?

Anyhow, have tried all three usb ports on the device but after booting I always get the same error:

Marvell>> boot                                                                                                                                                      
(Re)start USB...                                                                                                                                                    
USB:   scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found                                                                                                            
       scanning bus for storage devices... T Device NOT ready                                                                                                       
   Request Sense returned 00 00 00                                                                                                                                  
1 Storage Device(s) found                                                                                                                                           
** Bad partition 1 **                                                                                                                                               
** Bad partition 1 **                                                                                                                                               
## Booting image at 00800000 ...                                                                                                                                    
Bad Magic Number                                                                                                                                                    
stopping USB..

When it says Scanning bus for storage devices it prints the capital T after a couple of seconds and the stays quiet for around 30 seconds before saying that the device is not ready.

Can you help me out here please ?
Is there still something wrong with my USB stick, or is my device broken (booting it with one HDD works fine, and I can see the contents of the USB stick in the webgui...)

For completeness, this is the info of the device when it boots :

        |  \/  | __ _ _ ____   _____| | |                                                                                                                           
        | |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |                                                                                                                           
        | |  | | (_| | |   \ V /  __/ | |                                                                                                                           
        |_|  |_|\__,_|_|    \_/ \___|_|_|                                                                                                                           
 _   _     ____              _                                                                                                                                      
| | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_                                                                                                                                    
| | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|                                                                                                                                   
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_                                                                                                                                    
 \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|                                                                                                                                   
 ** MARVELL BOARD: RD-88F6281A LE                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                    
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Sep  8 2009 - 09:31:54) Marvell version: 3.4.14                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
Mapower version: 2.0 (32MB) (2009/09/08)                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                    
U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0  BSS: -> 006CEE60                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Soc: 88F6281 A0 (DDR2)                                                                                                                                              
CPU running @ 1000Mhz L2 running @ 333Mhz                                                                                                                           
SysClock = 333Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                    
DRAM CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6                                                                                                                       
DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000   size 256MB                                                                                                                             
DRAM Total size 256MB  16bit width                                                                                                                                  
Flash:  0 kB                                                                                                                                                        
Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage.                                                                                                                   
Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done                                                                                                                           
NAND:32 MB                                                                                                                                                          
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    
Streaming disabled                                                                                                                                                  
Write allocate disabled                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
Module 0 is RGMII                                                                                                                                                   
Module 1 is TDM                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
USB 0: host mode                                                                                                                                                    
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.                                                                                                                                  
Net:   egiga0, egiga1 [PRIME]                                                                                                                                       
Fan lookup table initialized.                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
Current remote temperature: 38                                                                                                                                      
Current fan speed: 0                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                    
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

Hope you can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks !



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2026 04:23PM by phloks.
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 19, 2026 04:22PM
Ok,

I did two things:
1) I took a new USB stick (Sandisk)
2) I created the USB stick with this file : Debian-5.6.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

Now the boot continues.
Not sure if it was the better USB stick or the newer files. (I'm guessing the former...).

However, now I'm stuck with the following :

USB:   scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found                                                                        
       scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found                                                            
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## Booting image at 00800000 ...                                                                                                
   Image Name:   Linux-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1                                                                                     
   Created:      2023-10-31  22:53:22 UTC                                                                                       
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)                                                                          
   Data Size:    6223880 Bytes =  5.9 MB                                                                                        
   Load Address: 00008000                                                                                                       
   Entry Point:  00008000                                                                                                       
   Verifying Checksum ... OK                                                                                                    
OK                                                                                                                              
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 02100000 ...                                                                                        
   Image Name:   initramfs-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1                                                                                 
   Created:      2023-10-31  22:53:55 UTC                                                                                       
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)                                                                      
   Data Size:    5791207 Bytes =  5.5 MB                                                                                        
   Load Address: 00000000                                                                                                       
   Entry Point:  00000000                                                                                                       
   Verifying Checksum ... OK                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Starting kernel ...                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Error: invalid dtb and unrecognized/unsupported machine ID                                                                      
  r1=0x0000020f, r2=0x00000100                                                                                                  
  r2[]=05 00 00 00 01 00 41 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                                                                          
Available machine support:                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
ID (hex)        NAME                                                                                                            
ffffffff        Generic DT based system                                                                                         
ffffffff        Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree)

The setenv settings I used are :

setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial'
setenv load_uimage 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage'
setenv load_uinitrd 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x2100000 /boot/uInitrd'
setenv usb_boot 'mw 0x800000 0 1; run load_uimage; run load_uinitrd; bootm 0x800000 0x2100000'
setenv usb_bootcmd 'run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot'
setenv bootcmd 'usb start; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; reset'
setenv dtb_file '/boot/dts/kirkwood-iomega_ix2_200.dtb'

So why is it refusing to go any further ?
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 20, 2026 12:07AM
phloks,

You've missed Step 4 in the rootfs creation.

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

4. (Stock u-boot only) Create uImage with embedded DTB for booting with older u-boots (2012 or earlier). Skip this step if you have installed the latest U-Boot for Kirkwood (or are installing this u-boot at the same time, or running kwboot with latest u-boot image).

Please replace kirkwood-goflexnet.dtb below with the correct DTB name for your box (see the folder /media/sdb1/boot/dts for the exact spelling of your Kirkwood box name).

Generate the uImage with DTB embedded inside:
cd /media/sdb1/boot
cp -a zImage-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 zImage.fdt
cat dts/kirkwood-goflexnet.dtb >> zImage.fdt
mv uImage uImage.orig
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n Linux-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 -d zImage.fdt uImage
sync

-bodhi
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Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 20, 2026 07:15AM
Hi Bodhi,

Thanks for answering.
You are completely correct of course. Should have read that better.

I did step 4, with the difference that I could not find Linux-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 in my /boot, so I used vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 instead.

This is what I did:
root@Vulcan:/mnt/boot# cp -a zImage-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1  zImage.fdt
root@Vulcan:/mnt/boot# cat dts/kirkwood-iomega_ix2_200.dtb  >> zImage.fdt
root@Vulcan:/mnt/boot# mv uImage uImage.org
root@Vulcan:/mnt/boot# mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 -d zImage.fdt uImage

As you can see, I'm trying to get an old ix2-200 to play Debian...

Rebooted, stopped boot sequence, applied the setenv's again, and now the boot continues.
Sadly though, just after discovering the one HDD that is in the device, I get a kernel panic:

Marvell>> boot                                                                                                                  
(Re)start USB...                                                                                                                
USB:   scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found                                                                        
       scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found                                                            
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## Booting image at 00800000 ...                                                                                                
   Image Name:   vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1                                                                                   
   Created:      2026-01-19  22:40:19 UTC                                                                                       
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)                                                                          
   Data Size:    6235836 Bytes =  5.9 MB                                                                                        
   Load Address: 00008000                                                                                                       
   Entry Point:  00008000                                                                                                       
   Verifying Checksum ... OK                                                                                                    
OK                                                                                                                              
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 02100000 ...                                                                                        
   Image Name:   initramfs-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1                                                                                 
   Created:      2023-10-31  22:53:55 UTC                                                                                       
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)                                                                      
   Data Size:    5791207 Bytes =  5.5 MB                                                                                        
   Load Address: 00000000                                                                                                       
   Entry Point:  00000000                                                                                                       
   Verifying Checksum ... OK                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Starting kernel ...                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
[    0.000000][    T0] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0                                                                        
[    0.000000][    T0] Linux version 6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 (root@tldDebian) (gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils3
[    0.000000][    T0] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0005397f                                       
[    0.000000][    T0] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache                                                             
[    0.000000][    T0] OF: fdt: Machine model: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200                                                        
[    0.000000][    T0] printk: bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled                                                                  
[    0.000000][    T0] Memory policy: Data cache writeback                                                                      
[    0.000000][    T0] Zone ranges:                                                                                             
[    0.000000][    T0]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff]                                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] Movable zone start for each node                                                                         
[    0.000000][    T0] Early memory node ranges                                                                                 
[    0.000000][    T0]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff]                                                  
[    0.000000][    T0] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff]                                         
[    0.000000][    T0] Kernel command line: console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial            
[    0.000000][    T0] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)                                  
[    0.000000][    T0] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)                                    
[    0.000000][    T0] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 64960                                             
[    0.000000][    T0] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:on, heap free:off                                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] Memory: 232344K/262144K available (12288K kernel code, 1755K rwdata, 5416K rodata, 1024K init, 301K bss,)
[    0.000000][    T0] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1                                               
[    0.000000][    T0] trace event string verifier disabled                                                                     
[    0.000000][    T0] rcu: Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.                                                        
[    0.000000][    T0]  Trampoline variant of Tasks RCU enabled.                                                                
[    0.000000][    T0]  Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.                                                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies.                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16                                                          
[    0.000000][    T0] rcu: srcu_init: Setting srcu_struct sizes based on contention.                                           
[    0.000000][    T0] clocksource: orion_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns      
[    0.000002][    T0] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns                                
[    0.008545][    T0] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 5ns                                                      
[    0.015832][    T0] Console: colour dummy device 80x30                                                                       
[    0.021096][    T0] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 400.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=2000000) 
[    0.032354][    T0] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok                                                                  
[    0.038077][    T0] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301                                                                     
[    0.053933][    T0] LSM: initializing lsm=capability,integrity                                                               
[    0.062673][    T0] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                      
[    0.070742][    T0] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                 
[    0.094099][    T1] RCU Tasks: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1.                                         
[    0.102344][    T1] RCU Tasks Trace: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1.                                   
[    0.111222][    T1] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100058                                                   
[    0.118480][    T1] mvebu-soc-id: MVEBU SoC ID=0x6281, Rev=0x2                                                               
[    0.124883][    T1] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.                                                                   
[    0.130473][    T1] rcu:     Max phase no-delay instances is 1000.                                                           
[    0.139912][    T1] devtmpfs: initialized                                                                                    
[    0.156362][    T1] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns         
[    0.167072][    T1] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes, linear)                                            
[    0.178098][    T1] prandom: seed boundary self test passed                                                                  
[    0.188865][    T1] prandom: 100 self tests passed                                                                           
[    0.193670][    T1] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem                                                              
[    0.204145][    T1] NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family                                                      
[    0.212591][    T1] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations                                           
[    0.226744][    T1] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)                                                            
[    0.235294][    T1] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'                                                     
[    0.235499][   T19] audit: type=2000 audit(0.220:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1                                 
[    0.250721][    T1] cpuidle: using governor ladder                                                                           
[    0.255608][    T1] cpuidle: using governor menu                                                                             
[    0.261031][    T1] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2                                                                                 
[    0.265334][    T1] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.                                                                  
[    0.275953][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.289099][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.302227][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.315263][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.328300][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.341251][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.354202][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.367240][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.380278][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.393143][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.414483][    T1] No ATAGs?                                                                                                
[    0.778566][    T1] raid6: int32x8  gen()    91 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.118561][    T1] raid6: int32x4  gen()    88 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.458598][    T1] raid6: int32x2  gen()   116 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.798560][    T1] raid6: int32x1  gen()    82 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.803520][    T1] raid6: using algorithm int32x2 gen() 116 MB/s                                                            
[    2.158566][    T1] raid6: .... xor() 72 MB/s, rmw enabled                                                                   
[    2.164042][    T1] raid6: using intx1 recovery algorithm                                                                    
[    2.180575][    T1] SCSI subsystem initialized                                                                               
[    2.189291][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs                                                           
[    2.195532][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub                                                             
[    2.218661][    T1] usbcore: registered new device driver usb                                                                
[    2.224910][    T1] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered                                                                 
[    2.238566][    T1] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>                 
[    2.248398][    T1] PTP clock support registered                                                                             
[    2.281572][    T1] vgaarb: loaded                                                                                           
[    2.285982][    T1] clocksource: Switched to clocksource orion_clocksource                                                   
[    2.317182][    T1] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0                                                                             
[    2.322306][    T1] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)                                          
[    2.384737][    T1] NET: Registered PF_INET protocol family                                                                  
[    2.396396][    T1] IP idents hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)                                       
[    2.417454][    T1] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                         
[    2.436284][    T1] Table-perturb hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)                                 
[    2.444732][    T1] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)                                  
[    2.476052][    T1] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)                                        
[    2.483912][    T1] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)                                                 
[    2.506901][    T1] MPTCP token hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes, linear)                                       
[    2.515089][    T1] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                               
[    2.536036][    T1] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                          
[    2.544797][    T1] NET: Registered PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL protocol family                                                         
[    2.567326][    T1] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.                                                      
[    2.573933][    T1] RPC: Registered udp transport module.                                                                    
[    2.586013][    T1] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.                                                                    
[    2.591402][    T1] RPC: Registered tcp-with-tls transport module.                                                           
[    2.616004][    T1] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.                                                
[    2.623140][    T1] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32                                                                             
[    2.639585][   T10] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...                                                            
[    3.821108][   T10] Freeing initrd memory: 5656K                                                                             
[    4.833885][    T1] Initialise system trusted keyrings                                                                       
[    4.840590][    T1] Key type blacklist registered                                                                            
[    4.845786][    T1] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=16 bucket_order=2                                                
[    4.853243][    T1] zbud: loaded                                                                                             
[    4.879568][    T1] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type                                                                
[    4.885360][    T1] Key type id_resolver registered                                                                          
[    4.890301][    T1] Key type id_legacy registered                                                                            
[    4.895234][    T1] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...                                             
[    4.902655][    T1] nfs4flexfilelayout_init: NFSv4 Flexfile Layout Driver Registering...                                     
[    4.912660][    T1] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.                                          
[    4.921491][    T1] fuse: init (API version 7.38)                                                                            
[    4.928008][    T1] orangefs_debugfs_init: called with debug mask: :none: :0:                                                
[    4.935525][    T1] orangefs_init: module version upstream loaded                                                            
[    4.942102][    T1] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, quota, no debug enabled                         
[    5.205760][    T1] xor: measuring software checksum speed                                                                   
[    5.222042][    T1]    arm4regs        :   917 MB/sec                                                                        
[    5.244797][    T1]    8regs           :   556 MB/sec                                                                        
[    5.262333][    T1]    32regs          :   789 MB/sec                                                                        
[    5.267396][    T1] xor: using function: arm4regs (917 MB/sec)                                                               
[    5.273223][    T1] async_tx: api initialized (async)                                                                        
[    5.278304][    T1] Key type asymmetric registered                                                                           
[    5.283083][    T1] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered                                                                  
[    5.352037][    T1] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 246)                                     
[    5.360805][    T1] io scheduler bfq registered                                                                              
[    5.593369][    T1] kirkwood-pinctrl f1010000.pin-controller: registered pinctrl driver                                      
[    5.603918][    T1] gpio gpiochip0: Static allocation of GPIO base is deprecated, use dynamic allocation.                    
[    5.615290][    T1] gpio gpiochip1: Static allocation of GPIO base is deprecated, use dynamic allocation.                    
[    5.626898][    T1] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver                                                           
[    5.699134][    T1] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy intr )                                      
[    5.713014][    T1] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver                                                           
[    5.779153][    T1] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy intr )                                      
[    5.793461][    T1] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled                                                 
[    5.804645][    T1] f1012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 27, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A                   
[    5.831051][    T1] loop: module loaded                                                                                      
[    5.836391][    T1] sata_mv f1080000.sata: slots 32 ports 2                                                                  
[    5.848073][    T1] scsi host0: sata_mv                                                                                      
[    5.853854][    T1] scsi host1: sata_mv                                                                                      
[    5.858304][    T1] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 28                                                                           
[    5.863094][    T1] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 28                                                                           
[    5.869444][    T1] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0x75                                                 
[    5.876527][    T1] nand: Hynix NAND 32MiB 3,3V 8-bit                                                                        
[    5.881564][    T1] nand: 32 MiB, SLC, erase size: 16 KiB, page size: 512, OOB size: 16                                      
[    5.889597][    T1] Scanning device for bad blocks                                                                           
[    6.121382][    T1] 4 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device orion_nand                                             
[    6.128821][    T1] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":                                                               
[    6.134731][    T1] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"                                                                 
[    6.141516][    T1] 0x0000000a0000-0x0000000c0000 : "env"                                                                    
[    6.147883][    T1] 0x000000100000-0x000000400000 : "uImage"                                                                 
[    6.154680][    T1] 0x000000400000-0x000002000000 : "rootfs"                                                                 
[    6.163646][    T1] wireguard: WireGuard 1.0.0 loaded. See www.wireguard.com for information.                                
[    6.172229][    T1] wireguard: Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved.            
[    6.215634][    T1] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4                                            
[    6.227019][    T1] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0 eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:50:43:9d:29:29                      
[    6.957588][    T1] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.1 eth1: port 0 with MAC address 00:50:43:8c:29:29                      
[    6.967808][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller                                                           
[    6.974020][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1                                  
[    6.982780][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: irq 32, io mem 0xf1050000                                                      
[    7.016023][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00                                                     
[    7.023131][    T1] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 6.05                           
[    7.032106][    T1] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1                                       
[    7.040026][    T1] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller                                                                  
[    7.045582][    T1] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 ehci_hcd                                              
[    7.052892][    T1] usb usb1: SerialNumber: f1050000.ehci                                                                    
[    7.059606][    T1] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found                                                                               
[    7.064100][    T1] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected                                                                             
[    7.070112][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage                                                     
[    7.077586][    T1] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice                                                          
[    7.085804][    T1] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: registered as rtc0                                                                  
[    7.091508][    T1] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: setting system clock to 2026-01-19T22:43:27 UTC (1768862607)                        
[    7.101245][    T1] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver                                                                         
[    7.109465][    T1] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3                                                                     
[    7.115522][    T1] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.48.0-ioctl (2023-03-01) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com                         
[    7.125570][    T1] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.2.0 loaded                                               
[    7.132870][    T1] device-mapper: multipath queue-length: version 0.2.0 loaded                                              
[    7.140225][    T1] device-mapper: multipath service-time: version 0.3.0 loaded                                              
[    7.147629][    T1] device-mapper: dm-log-userspace: version 1.3.0 loaded                                                    
[    7.157382][    T1] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs                                                     
[    7.164211][    T1] hid: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina                                                               
[    7.170600][    T1] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service                                                  
[    7.179472][    T1] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family                                                                 
[    7.188247][    T1] Segment Routing with IPv6                                                                                
[    7.192609][    T1] RPL Segment Routing with IPv6                                                                            
[    7.197683][    T1] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6                                                                             
[    7.202438][    T1] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family                                                                
[    7.208898][    T1] Key type dns_resolver registered                                                                         
[    7.237388][    T1] registered taskstats version 1                                                                           
[    7.242279][    T1] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates                                                                   
[    7.274929][    T1] Key type .fscrypt registered                                                                             
[    7.279675][    T1] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered                                                                 
[    7.293662][    T1] Key type big_key registered                                                                              
[    7.354942][    T1] Key type encrypted registered                                                                            
[    7.359798][   T49] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci                                             
[    7.499293][  T103] "cryptomgr_test" (103) uses obsolete ecb(arc4) skcipher                                                  
[    7.566675][   T49] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6254, bcdDevice= 1.00                            
[    7.575567][   T49] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0                                        
[    7.607450][   T49] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found                                                                               
[    7.616038][   T49] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected                                                                            
[    7.946024][   T49] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci                                           
[    8.117412][   T49] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5567, bcdDevice= 1.00                          
[    8.136010][   T49] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3                                      
[    8.143995][   T49] usb 1-1.1: Product:  SanDisk 3.2Gen1                                                                     
[    8.166013][   T49] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer:  USB                                                                            
[    8.170709][   T49] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 0901ce537a967a044014ab26213a6119e694df0928a485e48b3a9026de34b614e1c3000000000000
[    8.207336][   T49] usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected                                                  
[    8.226804][   T49] scsi host2: usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0                                                                        
[    9.249106][   T10] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access      USB      SanDisk 3.2Gen1 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6                             
[    9.269079][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 240328704 512-byte logical blocks: (123 GB/115 GiB)                                    
[    9.287201][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off                                                                   
[    9.306069][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA                 
[    9.336607][   T10]  sda: sda1                                                                                               
[    9.346410][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk                                                           
[   10.409439][    T1] clk: Disabling unused clocks                                                                             
[   10.414160][    T1] Warning: unable to open an initial console.                                                              
[   11.406010][   T52] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)                                               
[   12.596038][   T52] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl F300)                                                  
[   12.628421][   T52] ata1.00: ATA-8: ST31000520AS, CC38, max UDMA/133                                                         
[   12.634766][   T52] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)                                            
[   12.649103][   T52] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133                                                                         
[   12.664822][   T29] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST31000520AS     CC38 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5                             
[   12.675644][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)                                  
[   12.684820][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off                                                                   
[   12.690522][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA                  
[   12.700432][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes                                                   
[   12.753869][   T10]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2                                                                                          
[   12.758568][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk                                                                     
[   13.017782][   T54] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)                                                           
[   13.037821][    T1] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 1024K                                                      
[   13.045275][    T1] Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found                                                         
[   13.051664][    T1] Run /init as init process                                                                                
[   30.040441][    T1] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100                                  
[   30.048782][    T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 #2 b782412796a181fef4037ede16903ece36aa46a3    
[   30.059706][    T1] Hardware name: Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree)                                                  
[   30.066645][    T1]  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14                                                              
[   30.072582][    T1]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x28/0x30                                                                
[   30.078327][    T1]  dump_stack_lvl from panic+0xf0/0x320                                                                    
[   30.083718][    T1]  panic from do_exit+0x274/0xa28                                                                          
[   30.088599][    T1]  do_exit from sys_exit_group+0x0/0x14                                                                    
[   30.093998][    T1]  sys_exit_group from sys_exit_group+0x10/0x14                                                            
[   30.100090][    T1]  sys_exit_group from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44                                                           
[   30.106267][    T1] Exception stack(0x90819fa8 to 0x90819ff0)                                                                
[   30.112002][    T1] 9fa0:                   010c95a0 00000004 00000001 00000000 00000001 010c9190                            
[   30.120850][    T1] 9fc0: 010c95a0 00000004 00000001 000000f8 00000000 76f2bd80 00000000 005274a8                            
[   30.129694][    T1] 9fe0: 00528acc 7ecdf9e8 004a18c4 76e2e544                                                                
[   30.135428][    T1] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 ]---

Any thoughts on that, please ?
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 20, 2026 11:17PM
phloks,

> As you can see, I'm trying to get an old ix2-200 to play Debian...

Is your box the ix2-200? or other variation?

> I did step 4, with the difference that I could not
> find Linux-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 in my /boot, so I
> used vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 instead.

Linux-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 in
> root@Vulcan:/mnt/boot# mkimage -A arm -O linux -T
> kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n
> vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 -d zImage.fdt uImage
is only the name we choose for the image by convention (it could be any name). There is no file with this name. The file being used is -d zImage.fdt.

This of type kernel panic is usually rootfs related. Tracing back to when you create the roots. If you did not do exactly what the instruction said then it won't work.

Things like:
"logging in as root user, create a single Ext3 partition, and label it rootfs. This step should be done at Linux command line using fdisk, mkfs.ext3 (don't use GUI or gparted)."

are important. Also do a sync after extracting the rootfs tarball.

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Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 21, 2026 03:41PM
Thanks again.
But no cigar....

To answer your first question: the sticker on the device says ix2-200, so I don't have any reason to assume otherwise.

I ran the entire process again. Below is what I did (copy and paste from terminal / minicom):

[Linux terminal ; Debian 13]
1) Became root( no sudo commands )

2) USB is detected as /dev/sdc (from dmesg) :
410339.126866] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 65 using xhci_hcd
[410339.264100] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5567, bcdDevice= 1.00
[410339.264116] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[410339.264124] usb 1-4: Product:  SanDisk 3.2Gen1
[410339.264131] usb 1-4: Manufacturer:  USB
[410339.264136] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 0901ce537a967a044014ab26213a6119e694df0928a485e48b3a9026de34b614e1c3000000000000000000004c9dd965000b5d20675581079f2c3150
[410339.266107] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[410339.266808] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[410340.296249] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access      USB      SanDisk 3.2Gen1 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[410340.296888] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[410340.302343] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 240328704 512-byte logical blocks: (123 GB/115 GiB)
[410340.303253] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[410340.303271] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[410340.303702] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[410340.328632]  sdc: sdc1
[410340.328941] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

3) Not in the manual, but to be sure my partition table is wiped :
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.0617898 s, 17.0 MB/s

4) Created a partition using fdisk :
fdisk /dev/sdc

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.41).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS (MBR) disklabel with disk identifier 0xce803455.

Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 114.6 GiB, 123048296448 bytes, 240328704 sectors
Disk model:  SanDisk 3.2Gen1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xce803455

Command (m for help): n
Partition type
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): 

Using default response p.
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 
First sector (2048-240328703, default 2048): 
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-240328703, default 240328703): 

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 114.6 GiB.
Partition #1 contains a ext2 signature.

Do you want to remove the signature? [Y]es/[N]o: Y

The signature will be removed by a write command.

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

5) Formatted to ext3 and labeled rootfs :
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 -L rootfs
mke2fs 1.47.2 (1-Jan-2025)
Creating filesystem with 30040832 4k blocks and 7512064 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 8b94e671-b43d-49ab-abd5-136271f27ff7
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (131072 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

6) Made sure the label is correct :
blkid /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="8b94e671-b43d-49ab-abd5-136271f27ff7" SEC_TYPE="ext2" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext3" PARTUUID="ce803455-01"

7) Mounted the USB and cd to top level:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
cd /mnt

8) Uncompressed the file Debian-5.6.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 (which should be named ...-6.5.7-...) :
tar xjf /home/hans/Downloads/Debian-5.6.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2

9) Did a couple of syncs :
sync
sync

10) Verified the tree is on the USB :
ls -l /mnt
total 76
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     7 Oct 31  2023 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Jan 21 21:53 boot
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 Feb 24  2012 dev
drwxr-xr-x 70 root root  4096 Nov  1  2023 etc
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan 22  2012 home
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     7 Oct 31  2023 lib -> usr/lib
drwx------  2 root root 16384 Feb 24  2012 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb 24  2012 media
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb 10  2015 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb 24  2012 opt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan 22  2012 proc
drwx------  5 root root  4096 Nov  1  2023 root
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb  8  2013 run
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 Oct 31  2023 sbin -> usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb 24  2012 srv
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  1  2011 sys
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root  4096 Nov  1  2023 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 Sep 24  2021 usr
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 Jan  1  1970 var

11) Went into the boot directory :
cd /mnt/boot
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  198312 Oct 19  2023 config-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Oct 18  2023 dts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5791207 Oct 31  2023 initrd.img-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8557164 Oct 19  2023 linux-headers-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1_1_armel.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4543778 Oct 19  2023 System.map-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6223944 Oct 31  2023 uImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5791271 Oct 31  2023 uInitrd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6223880 Oct 19  2023 vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6223880 Oct 19  2023 zImage-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1

12) Performed "step 4" :
cp -a zImage-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 zImage.fdt
cat dts/kirkwood-iomega_ix2_200.dtb >> zImage.fdt
mv uImage uImage.org
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 -d zImage.fdt uImage
Image Name:   vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1
Created:      Wed Jan 21 21:58:42 2026
Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size:    6235836 Bytes = 6089.68 KiB = 5.95 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point:  00008000

(13) Did another couple of syncs, and unmounted the USB :
sync
sync
cd
umount /mnt

(14) Took the USB from my Linux box, and stuck it into the device, then powered on the device.

[From here on output of minicom terminal]
                                                                                                                                
         __  __                      _ _                                                                                        
        |  \/  | __ _ _ ____   _____| | |                                                                                       
        | |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |                                                                                       
        | |  | | (_| | |   \ V /  __/ | |                                                                                       
        |_|  |_|\__,_|_|    \_/ \___|_|_|                                                                                       
 _   _     ____              _                                                                                                  
| | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_                                                                                                
| | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|                                                                                               
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_                                                                                                
 \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|                                                                                               
 ** MARVELL BOARD: RD-88F6281A LE                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Sep  8 2009 - 09:31:54) Marvell version: 3.4.14                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Mapower version: 2.0 (32MB) (2009/09/08)                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0  BSS: -> 006CEE60                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Soc: 88F6281 A0 (DDR2)                                                                                                          
CPU running @ 1000Mhz L2 running @ 333Mhz                                                                                       
SysClock = 333Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
DRAM CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6                                                                                   
DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000   size 256MB                                                                                         
DRAM Total size 256MB  16bit width                                                                                              
Flash:  0 kB                                                                                                                    
Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage.                                                                               
Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done                                                                                       
NAND:32 MB                                                                                                                      
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Streaming disabled                                                                                                              
Write allocate disabled                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Module 0 is RGMII                                                                                                               
Module 1 is TDM                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
USB 0: host mode                                                                                                                
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.                                                                                              
Net:   egiga0, egiga1 [PRIME]                                                                                                   
Fan lookup table initialized.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Current remote temperature: 29                                                                                                  
Current fan speed: 0                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

(1) Did the setenvs :
Marvell>> setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial'    
Marvell>> setenv load_uimage 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage'                                                           
Marvell>> setenv load_uinitrd 'ext2load usb 0:1 0x2100000 /boot/uInitrd'                                                        
Marvell>> setenv usb_boot 'mw 0x800000 0 1; run load_uimage; run load_uinitrd; bootm 0x800000 0x2100000'                        
Marvell>> setenv usb_bootcmd 'run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot'                                                               
Marvell>> setenv bootcmd 'usb start; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; reset'

(2) For reference did a printenv :
Marvell>> printenv                                                                                                              
baudrate=115200                                                                                                                 
loads_echo=0                                                                                                                    
ipaddr=10.4.50.165                                                                                                              
serverip=10.4.50.5                                                                                                              
rootpath=/mnt/ARM_FS/                                                                                                           
netmask=255.255.255.0                                                                                                           
stdin=serial                                                                                                                    
stdout=serial                                                                                                                   
stderr=serial                                                                                                                   
console=console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0xc0000@0(uboot)ro,0x1f00000@0x100000(root)                                      
mainlineLinux=no                                                                                                                
CASset=min                                                                                                                      
enaMonExt=no                                                                                                                    
enaCpuStream=no                                                                                                                 
enaWrAllo=no                                                                                                                    
pexMode=RC                                                                                                                      
disL2Cache=no                                                                                                                   
setL2CacheWT=yes                                                                                                                
disL2Prefetch=yes                                                                                                               
enaICPref=yes                                                                                                                   
enaDCPref=yes                                                                                                                   
sata_dma_mode=yes                                                                                                               
MALLOC_len=1                                                                                                                    
ethprime=egiga1                                                                                                                 
netbsd_en=no                                                                                                                    
vxworks_en=no                                                                                                                   
bootargs_root=root=/dev/nfs rw                                                                                                  
bootargs_end=:::DB88FXX81:eth0:none                                                                                             
image_name=uImage                                                                                                               
standalone=fsload 0x2000000 $(image_name);setenv bootargs $(console) root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_;
bootdelay=3                                                                                                                     
disaMvPnp=no                                                                                                                    
ethaddr=00:50:43:3e:0a:39                                                                                                       
ethmtu=1500                                                                                                                     
eth1addr=00:50:43:c8:0a:39                                                                                                      
eth1mtu=1500                                                                                                                    
mvPhoneConfig=mv_phone_config=dev0:fxs,dev1:fxs                                                                                 
mvNetConfig=mv_net_config=(00:11:88:0f:62:81,0:1:2:3),mtu=1500                                                                  
usb0Mode=host                                                                                                                   
yuk_ethaddr=00:00:00:EE:51:81                                                                                                   
nandEcc=1bit                                                                                                                    
hddPowerCtrl=no                                                                                                                 
netretry=no                                                                                                                     
rcvrip=169.254.100.100                                                                                                          
loadaddr=0x02000000                                                                                                             
autoload=no                                                                                                                     
enaAutoRecovery=yes                                                                                                             
ethact=egiga1                                                                                                                   
FanHysteresis=2                                                                                                                 
FanTempStart=58                                                                                                                 
uboot_start=0x0                                                                                                                 
uboot_size=0xc0000                                                                                                              
env_start=0xa0000                                                                                                               
env_size=0x20000                                                                                                                
kernel_start=0x100000                                                                                                           
kernel_size=0x300000                                                                                                            
initrd_start=0x540000                                                                                                           
initrd_size=0x300000                                                                                                            
flash_load=run make_boot_args load1 load2 boot                                                                                  
load1=nand read.e 0x2000000 $(kernel_start) $(kernel_size)                                                                      
load2=nand read.e 0x4500000 $(initrd_start) $(initrd_size)                                                                      
boot=bootm 0x2000000 0x4500000                                                                                                  
make_boot_args=setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:;setenv bootargs $(bootargs)$(uboot_size)@$(uboot_start)(;
iomega=123                                                                                                                      
usb_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial                       
load_uimage=ext2load usb 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage                                                                              
load_uinitrd=ext2load usb 0:1 0x2100000 /boot/uInitrd                                                                           
usb_boot=mw 0x800000 0 1; run load_uimage; run load_uinitrd; bootm 0x800000 0x2100000                                           
usb_bootcmd=run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot                                                                                  
bootcmd=usb start; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; reset                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Environment size: 2277/16380 bytes

(3) And the boot :
Marvell>> boot                                                                                                                  
(Re)start USB...                                                                                                                
USB:   scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found                                                                        
       scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found                                                            
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## Booting image at 00800000 ...                                                                                                
   Image Name:   vmlinuz-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1                                                                                   
   Created:      2026-01-21  20:58:42 UTC                                                                                       
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)                                                                          
   Data Size:    6235836 Bytes =  5.9 MB                                                                                        
   Load Address: 00008000                                                                                                       
   Entry Point:  00008000                                                                                                       
   Verifying Checksum ... OK                                                                                                    
OK                                                                                                                              
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 02100000 ...                                                                                        
   Image Name:   initramfs-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1                                                                                 
   Created:      2023-10-31  22:53:55 UTC                                                                                       
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)                                                                      
   Data Size:    5791207 Bytes =  5.5 MB                                                                                        
   Load Address: 00000000                                                                                                       
   Entry Point:  00000000                                                                                                       
   Verifying Checksum ... OK                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Starting kernel ...                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
[    0.000000][    T0] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0                                                                        
[    0.000000][    T0] Linux version 6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 (root@tldDebian) (gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils3
[    0.000000][    T0] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0005397f                                       
[    0.000000][    T0] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache                                                             
[    0.000000][    T0] OF: fdt: Machine model: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200                                                        
[    0.000000][    T0] printk: bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled                                                                  
[    0.000000][    T0] Memory policy: Data cache writeback                                                                      
[    0.000000][    T0] Zone ranges:                                                                                             
[    0.000000][    T0]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff]                                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] Movable zone start for each node                                                                         
[    0.000000][    T0] Early memory node ranges                                                                                 
[    0.000000][    T0]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff]                                                  
[    0.000000][    T0] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff]                                         
[    0.000000][    T0] Kernel command line: console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial            
[    0.000000][    T0] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)                                  
[    0.000000][    T0] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)                                    
[    0.000000][    T0] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 64960                                             
[    0.000000][    T0] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:on, heap free:off                                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] Memory: 232344K/262144K available (12288K kernel code, 1755K rwdata, 5416K rodata, 1024K init, 301K bss,)
[    0.000000][    T0] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1                                               
[    0.000000][    T0] trace event string verifier disabled                                                                     
[    0.000000][    T0] rcu: Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.                                                        
[    0.000000][    T0]  Trampoline variant of Tasks RCU enabled.                                                                
[    0.000000][    T0]  Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.                                                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies.                                   
[    0.000000][    T0] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16                                                          
[    0.000000][    T0] rcu: srcu_init: Setting srcu_struct sizes based on contention.                                           
[    0.000000][    T0] clocksource: orion_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns      
[    0.000002][    T0] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns                                
[    0.008545][    T0] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 5ns                                                      
[    0.015831][    T0] Console: colour dummy device 80x30                                                                       
[    0.021097][    T0] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 400.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=2000000) 
[    0.032354][    T0] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok                                                                  
[    0.038077][    T0] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301                                                                     
[    0.053922][    T0] LSM: initializing lsm=capability,integrity                                                               
[    0.062678][    T0] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                      
[    0.070752][    T0] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                 
[    0.094043][    T1] RCU Tasks: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1.                                         
[    0.102282][    T1] RCU Tasks Trace: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1.                                   
[    0.111161][    T1] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100058                                                   
[    0.118418][    T1] mvebu-soc-id: MVEBU SoC ID=0x6281, Rev=0x2                                                               
[    0.124826][    T1] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.                                                                   
[    0.130410][    T1] rcu:     Max phase no-delay instances is 1000.                                                           
[    0.139858][    T1] devtmpfs: initialized                                                                                    
[    0.156262][    T1] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns         
[    0.166976][    T1] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes, linear)                                            
[    0.177891][    T1] prandom: seed boundary self test passed                                                                  
[    0.188660][    T1] prandom: 100 self tests passed                                                                           
[    0.193463][    T1] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem                                                              
[    0.203940][    T1] NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family                                                      
[    0.212393][    T1] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations                                           
[    0.226531][    T1] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)                                                            
[    0.235068][    T1] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'                                                     
[    0.235269][   T19] audit: type=2000 audit(0.220:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1                                 
[    0.250494][    T1] cpuidle: using governor ladder                                                                           
[    0.255373][    T1] cpuidle: using governor menu                                                                             
[    0.260801][    T1] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2                                                                                 
[    0.265109][    T1] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.                                                                  
[    0.275719][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.288866][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.301993][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.315030][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.328066][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.341018][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.353970][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.367007][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.380045][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-2
[    0.392910][    T1] platform f1010000.pin-controller: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /ocp@f1000000/pin-controller@10000/pmx-1
[    0.414233][    T1] No ATAGs?                                                                                                
[    0.778565][    T1] raid6: int32x8  gen()    91 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.118560][    T1] raid6: int32x4  gen()    88 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.458597][    T1] raid6: int32x2  gen()   116 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.798560][    T1] raid6: int32x1  gen()    82 MB/s                                                                         
[    1.803520][    T1] raid6: using algorithm int32x2 gen() 116 MB/s                                                            
[    2.158564][    T1] raid6: .... xor() 72 MB/s, rmw enabled                                                                   
[    2.164042][    T1] raid6: using intx1 recovery algorithm                                                                    
[    2.180573][    T1] SCSI subsystem initialized                                                                               
[    2.189288][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs                                                           
[    2.195532][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub                                                             
[    2.218660][    T1] usbcore: registered new device driver usb                                                                
[    2.224920][    T1] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered                                                                 
[    2.238566][    T1] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>                 
[    2.248398][    T1] PTP clock support registered                                                                             
[    2.281579][    T1] vgaarb: loaded                                                                                           
[    2.285996][    T1] clocksource: Switched to clocksource orion_clocksource                                                   
[    2.317195][    T1] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0                                                                             
[    2.322324][    T1] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)                                          
[    2.384736][    T1] NET: Registered PF_INET protocol family                                                                  
[    2.396411][    T1] IP idents hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)                                       
[    2.417478][    T1] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                         
[    2.436300][    T1] Table-perturb hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)                                 
[    2.444748][    T1] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)                                  
[    2.476067][    T1] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)                                        
[    2.483929][    T1] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)                                                 
[    2.506913][    T1] MPTCP token hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes, linear)                                       
[    2.515096][    T1] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                               
[    2.536050][    T1] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)                                          
[    2.544812][    T1] NET: Registered PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL protocol family                                                         
[    2.567346][    T1] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.                                                      
[    2.573949][    T1] RPC: Registered udp transport module.                                                                    
[    2.586029][    T1] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.                                                                    
[    2.591419][    T1] RPC: Registered tcp-with-tls transport module.                                                           
[    2.616018][    T1] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.                                                
[    2.623157][    T1] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32                                                                             
[    2.639593][   T10] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...                                                            
[    3.821070][   T10] Freeing initrd memory: 5656K                                                                             
[    4.833406][    T1] Initialise system trusted keyrings                                                                       
[    4.840132][    T1] Key type blacklist registered                                                                            
[    4.845296][    T1] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=16 bucket_order=2                                                
[    4.852754][    T1] zbud: loaded                                                                                             
[    4.879126][    T1] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type                                                                
[    4.884918][    T1] Key type id_resolver registered                                                                          
[    4.889858][    T1] Key type id_legacy registered                                                                            
[    4.894785][    T1] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...                                             
[    4.902206][    T1] nfs4flexfilelayout_init: NFSv4 Flexfile Layout Driver Registering...                                     
[    4.912215][    T1] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.                                          
[    4.921045][    T1] fuse: init (API version 7.38)                                                                            
[    4.927574][    T1] orangefs_debugfs_init: called with debug mask: :none: :0:                                                
[    4.935089][    T1] orangefs_init: module version upstream loaded                                                            
[    4.941669][    T1] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, quota, no debug enabled                         
[    5.205363][    T1] xor: measuring software checksum speed                                                                   
[    5.221532][    T1]    arm4regs        :   927 MB/sec                                                                        
[    5.244286][    T1]    8regs           :   556 MB/sec                                                                        
[    5.261823][    T1]    32regs          :   789 MB/sec                                                                        
[    5.266885][    T1] xor: using function: arm4regs (927 MB/sec)                                                               
[    5.272713][    T1] async_tx: api initialized (async)                                                                        
[    5.277794][    T1] Key type asymmetric registered                                                                           
[    5.282574][    T1] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered                                                                  
[    5.351714][    T1] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 246)                                     
[    5.360479][    T1] io scheduler bfq registered                                                                              
[    5.593030][    T1] kirkwood-pinctrl f1010000.pin-controller: registered pinctrl driver                                      
[    5.603571][    T1] gpio gpiochip0: Static allocation of GPIO base is deprecated, use dynamic allocation.                    
[    5.614928][    T1] gpio gpiochip1: Static allocation of GPIO base is deprecated, use dynamic allocation.                    
[    5.626545][    T1] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver                                                           
[    5.699143][    T1] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy intr )                                      
[    5.713005][    T1] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver                                                           
[    5.779171][    T1] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy intr )                                      
[    5.793470][    T1] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled                                                 
[    5.804637][    T1] f1012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 27, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A                   
[    5.831029][    T1] loop: module loaded                                                                                      
[    5.836367][    T1] sata_mv f1080000.sata: slots 32 ports 2                                                                  
[    5.848038][    T1] scsi host0: sata_mv                                                                                      
[    5.853827][    T1] scsi host1: sata_mv                                                                                      
[    5.858291][    T1] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 28                                                                           
[    5.863077][    T1] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 28                                                                           
[    5.869420][    T1] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0x75                                                 
[    5.876500][    T1] nand: Hynix NAND 32MiB 3,3V 8-bit                                                                        
[    5.881539][    T1] nand: 32 MiB, SLC, erase size: 16 KiB, page size: 512, OOB size: 16                                      
[    5.889571][    T1] Scanning device for bad blocks                                                                           
[    6.121341][    T1] 4 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device orion_nand                                             
[    6.128776][    T1] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":                                                               
[    6.134688][    T1] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"                                                                 
[    6.141466][    T1] 0x0000000a0000-0x0000000c0000 : "env"                                                                    
[    6.147825][    T1] 0x000000100000-0x000000400000 : "uImage"                                                                 
[    6.154618][    T1] 0x000000400000-0x000002000000 : "rootfs"                                                                 
[    6.163573][    T1] wireguard: WireGuard 1.0.0 loaded. See www.wireguard.com for information.                                
[    6.172159][    T1] wireguard: Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved.            
[    6.197777][   T52] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)                                                           
[    6.221840][    T1] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4                                            
[    6.233144][    T1] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0 eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:50:43:3e:0a:39                      
[    6.557765][   T54] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)                                                           
[    6.997628][    T1] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.1 eth1: port 0 with MAC address 00:50:43:c8:0a:39                      
[    7.007850][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller                                                           
[    7.014058][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1                                  
[    7.022741][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: irq 32, io mem 0xf1050000                                                      
[    7.056039][    T1] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00                                                     
[    7.063157][    T1] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 6.05                           
[    7.072134][    T1] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1                                       
[    7.080055][    T1] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller                                                                  
[    7.085611][    T1] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 ehci_hcd                                              
[    7.092918][    T1] usb usb1: SerialNumber: f1050000.ehci                                                                    
[    7.099667][    T1] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found                                                                               
[    7.104165][    T1] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected                                                                             
[    7.110172][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage                                                     
[    7.117644][    T1] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice                                                          
[    7.125855][    T1] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: registered as rtc0                                                                  
[    7.131552][    T1] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: setting system clock to 2026-01-21T21:01:11 UTC (1769029271)                        
[    7.141260][    T1] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver                                                                         
[    7.149473][    T1] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3                                                                     
[    7.155540][    T1] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.48.0-ioctl (2023-03-01) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com                         
[    7.165612][    T1] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.2.0 loaded                                               
[    7.172918][    T1] device-mapper: multipath queue-length: version 0.2.0 loaded                                              
[    7.180242][    T1] device-mapper: multipath service-time: version 0.3.0 loaded                                              
[    7.187649][    T1] device-mapper: dm-log-userspace: version 1.3.0 loaded                                                    
[    7.197399][    T1] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs                                                     
[    7.204229][    T1] hid: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina                                                               
[    7.210607][    T1] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service                                                  
[    7.219477][    T1] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family                                                                 
[    7.228272][    T1] Segment Routing with IPv6                                                                                
[    7.232629][    T1] RPL Segment Routing with IPv6                                                                            
[    7.237704][    T1] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6                                                                             
[    7.242458][    T1] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family                                                                
[    7.248877][    T1] Key type dns_resolver registered                                                                         
[    7.277339][    T1] registered taskstats version 1                                                                           
[    7.282229][    T1] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates                                                                   
[    7.314865][    T1] Key type .fscrypt registered                                                                             
[    7.319584][    T1] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered                                                                 
[    7.333688][    T1] Key type big_key registered                                                                              
[    7.395102][    T1] Key type encrypted registered                                                                            
[    7.399953][   T49] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci                                             
[    7.539523][  T103] "cryptomgr_test" (103) uses obsolete ecb(arc4) skcipher                                                  
[    7.606758][   T49] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6254, bcdDevice= 1.00                            
[    7.615649][   T49] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0                                        
[    7.647536][   T49] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found                                                                               
[    7.656052][   T49] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected                                                                            
[    7.986039][   T49] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci                                           
[    8.157249][   T49] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5567, bcdDevice= 1.00                          
[    8.176023][   T49] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3                                      
[    8.184007][   T49] usb 1-1.1: Product:  SanDisk 3.2Gen1                                                                     
[    8.206027][   T49] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer:  USB                                                                            
[    8.210721][   T49] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 0901ce537a967a044014ab26213a6119e694df0928a485e48b3a9026de34b614e1c3000000000000
[    8.247298][   T49] usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected                                                  
[    8.266823][   T49] scsi host2: usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0                                                                        
[    9.327943][   T18] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access      USB      SanDisk 3.2Gen1 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6                             
[    9.348556][   T29] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 240328704 512-byte logical blocks: (123 GB/115 GiB)                                    
[    9.367160][   T29] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off                                                                   
[    9.386058][   T29] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA                 
[    9.415565][   T29]  sda: sda1                                                                                               
[    9.426828][   T29] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk                                                           
[   10.448356][    T1] clk: Disabling unused clocks                                                                             
[   10.453082][    T1] Warning: unable to open an initial console.                                                              
[   10.462776][    T1] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 1024K                                                      
[   10.476914][    T1] Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found                                                         
[   10.483271][    T1] Run /init as init process                                                                                
[   27.215173][  T167] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem                                       
[   27.385121][  T167] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem 8b94e671-b43d-49ab-abd5-136271f27ff7 ro with ordered data mode. Quota.
[   27.585768][    T1] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100                                  
[   27.594114][    T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1 #2 b782412796a181fef4037ede16903ece36aa46a3    
[   27.605038][    T1] Hardware name: Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree)                                                  
[   27.611979][    T1]  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14                                                              
[   27.617914][    T1]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x28/0x30                                                                
[   27.623660][    T1]  dump_stack_lvl from panic+0xf0/0x320                                                                    
[   27.629051][    T1]  panic from do_exit+0x274/0xa28                                                                          
[   27.633932][    T1]  do_exit from sys_exit_group+0x0/0x14                                                                    
[   27.639331][    T1]  sys_exit_group from sys_exit_group+0x10/0x14                                                            
[   27.645422][    T1]  sys_exit_group from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44                                                           
[   27.651599][    T1] Exception stack(0x90819fa8 to 0x90819ff0)                                                                
[   27.657335][    T1] 9fa0:                   00a715a0 00000004 00000001 00000000 00000001 00a71190                            
[   27.666183][    T1] 9fc0: 00a715a0 00000004 00000001 000000f8 00000000 76f68d80 00000000 005224a8                            
[   27.675027][    T1] 9fe0: 00523acc 7eaee9e8 0049c8c4 76e6b544                                                                
[   27.680761][    T1] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 ]---


As you can see it sadly still ends in a kernel panic.

Two questions :
a) I did the entire thing without any harddisks in the device. Is this possible, or should you at least have one installed ?
b) If the procedure I followed above is the correct one, what else can I do to fix this ?

Thanks again for your patience.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/2026 03:42PM by phloks.
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 21, 2026 04:13PM
To answer my first question :

I tried with and without a HDD in the slot. Makes no difference.
Also tried with an ext2 formatted USB. Also no difference.

After the text Run /init as init process nothing is printed for a few seconds, and then the kernel panic appears again....
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 21, 2026 11:31PM
phloks,

I'll take a close look at the log.

For now, these are suggestions to try.

1. Use a different older type of USB 3.0 thumb drive, or better yet, use a USB 2.0 thumb drive for rootfs.

2. Don't use dd, use fdisk subcommand o to wipe the partition properly.

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=1

fdisk /dev/sdc

Command (m for help): o
Command (m for help): n

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Re: Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 23, 2026 07:55AM
FYI,

Even with your instructions to use o in fstab to create a new dos mbr, and using an older USB 2.0 usb drive, the end result is still the same...
Kernel panic..
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 23, 2026 10:12AM
phloks,

The panic might have been related to the non-existent console.

Your boot log:
> usb_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs
> console=ttyUSB0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs
> rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial

The instruction said
setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 earlyprintk=serial'

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Re: Can't seem to boot from USB
January 24, 2026 08:45AM
Thank you !

That was it....
Must have been confused by the port I saw on my local Debian machine (which was /dev/ttyUSB0) for the serial connection.

Anyhow, we're getting a bit further !
Making baby steps here...

Now there still seems to be something wrong with the rootfs on my USB drive :

[    7.100634][    T1] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage                                                               
[    7.108176][    T1] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice                                                                    
[    7.116550][    T1] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: registered as rtc0                                                                            
[    7.122197][    T1] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: setting system clock to 2026-01-24T14:37:02 UTC (1769265422)                                  
[    7.132004][    T1] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver                                                                                   
[    7.140265][    T1] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3                                                                               
[    7.146491][    T1] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.48.0-ioctl (2023-03-01) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com                                   
[    7.156645][    T1] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.2.0 loaded                                                         
[    7.163926][    T1] device-mapper: multipath queue-length: version 0.2.0 loaded                                                        
[    7.171398][    T1] device-mapper: multipath service-time: version 0.3.0 loaded                                                        
[    7.178892][    T1] device-mapper: dm-log-userspace: version 1.3.0 loaded                                                              
[    7.188704][    T1] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs                                                               
[    7.195600][    T1] hid: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina                                                                         
[    7.202046][    T1] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service                                                            
[    7.210966][    T1] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family                                                                           
[    7.219776][    T1] Segment Routing with IPv6                                                                                          
[    7.224178][    T1] RPL Segment Routing with IPv6                                                                                      
[    7.229303][    T1] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6                                                                                       
[    7.234105][    T1] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family                                                                          
[    7.240622][    T1] Key type dns_resolver registered                                                                                   
[    7.269060][    T1] registered taskstats version 1                                                                                     
[    7.273998][    T1] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates                                                                             
[    7.306816][    T1] Key type .fscrypt registered                                                                                       
[    7.311493][    T1] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered                                                                           
[    7.325528][    T1] Key type big_key registered                                                                                        
[    7.386110][   T49] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci                                                       
[    7.394250][    T1] Key type encrypted registered                                                                                      
[    7.531094][  T103] "cryptomgr_test" (103) uses obsolete ecb(arc4) skcipher                                                            
[    7.596776][   T49] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6254, bcdDevice= 1.00                                      
[    7.605754][   T49] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0                                                  
[    7.637422][   T49] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found                                                                                         
[    7.646027][   T49] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected                                                                                      
[    7.976018][   T49] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci                                                     
[    8.153761][   T49] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387, bcdDevice= 1.00                                    
[    8.176006][   T49] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3                                                
[    8.184083][   T49] usb 1-1.1: Product: Mass Storage                                                                                   
[    8.196005][   T49] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Generic                                                                                   
[    8.201009][   T49] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 9B4907AC                                                                                  
[    8.226813][   T49] usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected                                                            
[    8.246803][   T49] scsi host2: usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0                                                                                  
[    9.328373][   T10] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  Flash Disk       8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4                                       
[    9.349808][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 15728640 512-byte logical blocks: (8.05 GB/7.50 GiB)                                             
[    9.366929][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off                                                                             
[    9.386042][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA                           
[    9.416242][   T10]  sda: sda1                                                                                                         
[    9.426404][   T10] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk                                                                     
[   10.431981][    T1] clk: Disabling unused clocks                                                                                       
[   11.436014][   T52] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)                                                         
[   13.816034][   T52] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl F300)                                                            
[   13.848396][   T52] ata1.00: ATA-8: ST31000520AS, CC38, max UDMA/133                                                                   
[   13.854827][   T52] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)                                                      
[   13.869238][   T52] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133                                                                                   
[   13.885018][   T29] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST31000520AS     CC38 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5                                       
[   13.895967][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)                                            
[   13.904507][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off                                                                             
[   13.910906][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA                            
[   13.920951][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes                                                             
[   13.999024][   T10]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2                                                                                                    
[   14.003723][   T10] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk                                                                               
[   14.247772][   T54] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)                                                                     
[   14.267858][    T1] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 1024K                                                                
[   14.275374][    T1] Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found                                                                   
[   14.281824][    T1] Run /init as init process                                                                                          
Loading, please wait...                                                                                                                   
Starting systemd-udevd version 252.17-1~deb12u1                                                                                           
[   16.158726][  T149] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas                                                                       
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.                                                                                                
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.                                                                                           
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.                                                          
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.                                                                                          
Begin: Will now check root file system ... fsck from util-linux 2.38.1                                                                    
fsck: error 2 (No such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/sda1                                                         
fsck exited with status code 8                                                                                                            
done.                                                                                                                                     
Warning: File system check failed but did not detect errors                                                                               
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: No such device                                                                                 
Failed to mount /dev/sda1 as root file system.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                          
BusyBox v1.35.0 (Debian 1:1.35.0-4+b3) built-in shell (ash)                                                                               
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                          
(initramfs)

It looks like I'm already booted into Debian (initramfs), and I think that /dev/sda1 is still my USB drive.

Correct ?
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 24, 2026 09:27AM
Ok,

I tried something else.
Took the newer USB drive again, formatted it to ext3, did all the other stuff and booted from this drive.

Now I do get to a debian login prompt, so this is a success !

However, no ip address has been configured, and if I look at what is mounted after logging in I see this :

root@debian:~# mount                                                                                                                      
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)                                                                                
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)                                                                                 
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=116172k,nr_inodes=29043,mode=755)                                                     
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)                                                    
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=23904k,mode=755)                                                           
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)                                                                                   
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)                                                                
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,relatime)                                                                          
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=47800k)                                                                
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime)                                                                                                    
rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime

So, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /, and in / I do see the normal tree you would expect, but after logging in I would have expected to be in /root.

So it seems the environment is not completely finished.

Is this to be expected ?
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 25, 2026 10:58PM
> However, no ip address has been configured

With serial console connected, power up, boot with the setenv commands like you did before.

Log in Debian through serial console, and

ifconfig -a
ethtool eth0
And then post the entire serial console log (from the u-boot banner) here.

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Re: Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 26, 2026 08:11AM
Ok. Here you go :

root@debian:~# ifconfig -a                                                                                                                                
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500                                                                                                
        inet6 fe80::250:43ff:fe96:1f36  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>                                                                                  
        ether 00:50:43:96:1f:36  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)                                                                                              
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)                                                                                                                     
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0                                                                                                       
        TX packets 26  bytes 4444 (4.3 KiB)                                                                                                               
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0                                                                                        
        device interrupt 30                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                          
eth1: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500                                                                                                           
        ether 00:50:43:95:1f:36  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)                                                                                              
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)                                                                                                                     
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0                                                                                                       
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)                                                                                                                     
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0                                                                                        
        device interrupt 31                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                          
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536                                                                                                              
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0                                                                                                                 
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>                                                                                                      
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)                                                                                                           
        RX packets 13  bytes 1766 (1.7 KiB)                                                                                                               
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0                                                                                                       
        TX packets 13  bytes 1766 (1.7 KiB)                                                                                                               
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

root@debian:~# ethtool eth0                                                                                                                               
Settings for eth0:                                                                                                                                        
        Supported ports: [ MII ]                                                                                                                          
        Supported link modes:   Not reported                                                                                                              
        Supported pause frame use: No                                                                                                                     
        Supports auto-negotiation: No                                                                                                                     
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported                                                                                                                 
        Advertised link modes:  Not reported                                                                                                              
        Advertised pause frame use: No                                                                                                                    
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No                                                                                                                   
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported                                                                                                                
        Speed: 1000Mb/s                                                                                                                                   
        Duplex: Full                                                                                                                                      
        Auto-negotiation: off                                                                                                                             
        Port: MII                                                                                                                                         
        PHYAD: 0                                                                                                                                          
        Transceiver: internal                                                                                                                             
        Supports Wake-on: d                                                                                                                               
        Wake-on: d                                                                                                                                        
        Link detected: yes

The body of the message was too large, so the serial output is now in the attached file....

When I boot from NAND (so the old OS), and login using ssh, I can see that eth1 is in use and did get a DHCP address.
There's only one ethernet port on the back of the device, and ethtool shows that eth0 does have a link detected.
eth1 is also shown, but does not have a link:

root@debian:~# ethtool eth1                                                                                                                               
Settings for eth1:                                                                                                                                        
        Supported ports: [ TP    MII ]                                                                                                                    
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full                                                                                                 
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full                                                                                               
                                1000baseT/Full                                                                                                            
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only                                                                                                 
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes                                                                                                                    
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported                                                                                                                 
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full                                                                                                 
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full                                                                                               
                                1000baseT/Full                                                                                                            
        Advertised pause frame use: No                                                                                                                    
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes                                                                                                                  
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported                                                                                                                
        Speed: Unknown!                                                                                                                                   
        Duplex: Unknown! (255)                                                                                                                            
        Auto-negotiation: on                                                                                                                              
        Port: Twisted Pair                                                                                                                                
        PHYAD: 11                                                                                                                                         
        Transceiver: external                                                                                                                             
        MDI-X: Unknown                                                                                                                                    
        Supports Wake-on: d                                                                                                                               
        Wake-on: d                                                                                                                                        
        Link detected: no

Is something going wrong during the enumeration of the ethernet adapters at boot ?
And I am 100% sure that dhcp works on my network and has plenty of available addresses.
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Re: Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 26, 2026 08:32AM
FYI:

I played a bit with the network settings when logged in as root.

1) ifconfig eth0 down
2) Edit /etc/network/interfaces, and replaced eth0 with eth1 (2x)
3) ifconfig eth1 up
4) dhclient -v eth1

And I got an ip address.

Would changing this permanently on the USB drive correct the problem ?
Re: Can't seem to boot from USB (well, now I can, but another issue arises)
January 26, 2026 11:14PM
> Would changing this permanently on the USB drive
> correct the problem ?

Yes, according to the DTS, the network should be eth1.

> 2) Edit /etc/network/interfaces, and replaced eth0
> with eth1

Yes.

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