uBoot on Maxtor MSS2

Hi Jeff,

I know this is probably not the good place to ask it but what i whant to do is nearly the same thing you did with the seagate free agent dockstar with the oBoot on Maxtor MSS2 (maxtor shared storage 2) i.e create a custom uBoot and to intall debian on it.

The hardware of the MSS2:
CPU marvell orion 88 F5182,
2x16Mo,
NAND for uBoot is 256k0,
2 SATA ports,
Gb LAN,
2 USB ports,
and a serial port.

The currently implemantation of uBoot probably not integrate the net consol and probably not usbload neither.
UBoot can start a kermel named uImage(but probably not uInitrd) on /boot on the frist or second partition of Sata drive (configurable).

I want the posibility to boot on usb drive and netconsole.

I know the Debian kernel is able to work on Orion CPU (orion5x) but the kernel is with an uInitrd and curently i don't know if uboot could boot a kernel like this.

I have made a rootdir with debian on it (with debootstrap and your script (modified)) but for the moment it does not boot.

Can you help me to build a new uboot for my MSS2 (i searched on the net but nobody do this).

Thanks.

I don't know a MSS2 but this page has some details: http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Building_a_custom_kernel#Fixing_U-Boot_to_load_the_Orion.2FMainline_kernel

Thanks,

I build a new Kernel (3.1) on my dockstar for my MSS2, i hop it's work.

Ok my kernel does not work, i don't understand how i can do this corectly.

I think the official debian kernel should work.

For the moment my Uboot bootcmd is : bootcmd=ide reset; ide reset; ext2load ide 0:1 0x00200000 /boot/uImage; setenv bootargs $(bootargs) $(bootargs_root); bootm 0x00200000

How i can made it to boot the kernel.

For the moment i have no serial cable (i buy a nokia ca 42 it will arrive in two or three day).

If i do this : bootcmd=ide reset; ide reset; ext2load ide 0:1 0x800000 /boot/uImage; setenv bootargs $(bootargs) $(bootargs_root); if ext2load ide 0:1 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; else bootm 0x800000; fi

It should work no ?

hi,

I have access to u-boot, thanks to my serial cable.

I can charge a kernel via tftp but right now I have a kernel panic when trying to load the file system.

I need help to rebuild the kernel correctly.

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.1.6 (3.1.6) (root@debian) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-9) ) #2 Sat Jan 7 00:01:16 UTC 2012
[    0.000000] CPU: Feroceon [41069260] revision 0 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=a0053177
[    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine: Maxtor Shared Storage II
[    0.000000] Clearing invalid memory bank 0KB@0xffffffff
[    0.000000] Clearing invalid memory bank 0KB@0xffffffff
[    0.000000] Clearing invalid memory bank 0KB@0xffffffff
[    0.000000] Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
[    0.000000] Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
[    0.000000] Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
[    0.000000] Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x41000403
[    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rw
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 32MB = 32MB total
[    0.000000] Memory: 27208k/27208k available, 5560k reserved, 0K highmem
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000   ( 896 kB)
[    0.000000]     DMA     : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000   (   2 MB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xc2800000 - 0xfd800000   ( 944 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xc2000000   (  32 MB)
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000   (  16 MB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc045cb18   (4435 kB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xc045d000 - 0xc0480000   ( 140 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xc0480000 - 0xc04b83d8   ( 225 kB)
[    0.000000]        .bss : 0xc04b83fc - 0xc051dd5c   ( 407 kB)
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:64
[    0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 166MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 25769ms
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    7.918911] Calibrating delay loop... 331.77 BogoMIPS (lpj=1658880)
[    7.978578] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    7.978902] Security Framework initialized
[    7.979080] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[    7.979786] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    7.979831] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[    7.979891] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[    7.979920] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[    7.979946] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[    7.979973] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[    7.980165] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    7.982841] devtmpfs: initialized
[    7.985893] print_constraints: dummy:
[    7.986382] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    7.987636] Orion ID: MV88F5182-A2. TCLK=166666667.
[    7.990200] Applying Orion-1/Orion-NAS PCIe config read transaction workaround
[    7.990778] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[    7.991907] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[    7.998188] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    7.999305] vgaarb: loaded
[    8.000220] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    8.002163] Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
[    8.008665] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[    8.054444] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    8.054958] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    8.056528] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    8.056605] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    8.056655] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[    8.056681] TCP reno registered
[    8.056713] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    8.056768] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    8.057339] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    8.057827] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[    8.058912] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[    8.059008] type=2000 audit(0.130:1): initialized
[    8.062311] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[    8.062540] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    8.064087] msgmni has been set to 53
[    8.065571] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
[    8.065865] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[    8.065903] io scheduler noop registered
[    8.065926] io scheduler deadline registered
[    8.066068] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    8.066347] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    8.102332] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[    8.142335] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[    8.143261] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    8.164752] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[    8.598259] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    8.604015] sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 2
[    8.612305] scsi0 : sata_mv
[    8.615984] scsi1 : sata_mv
[    8.619294] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 29
[    8.623454] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 29
[    8.629615] physmap platform flash device: 00040000 at ff800000
[    8.635801] Found: SST 39LF020
[    8.638877] physmap-flash.0: Found 1 x8 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank
[    8.645357] number of JEDEC chips: 1
[    8.652826] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[    8.659829] mv643xx_eth smi: probed
[    8.667139] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0: eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:10:75:03:5f:16
[    8.676954] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    8.683401] i2c /dev entries driver
[    8.688106] rtc-m41t80 0-0068: chip found, driver version 0.05
[    8.697111] rtc-m41t80 0-0068: rtc core: registered m41t81 as rtc0
[    8.706393] TCP cubic registered
[    8.709629] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    8.714154] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[    8.718928] VFP support v0.3: not present
[    8.724171] registered taskstats version 1
[    8.729563] rtc-m41t80 0-0068: setting system clock to 2012-01-06 23:58:54 UTC (1325894334)
[    8.738090] Initializing network drop monitor service
[    9.132301] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    9.152562] ata1.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD501LJ, CR100-10, max UDMA7
[    9.158569] ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[    9.182567] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    9.187605] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG HD501LJ  CR10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    9.542289] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    9.548072] VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
[    9.554551] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    9.562930] 1f00             256 mtdblock0  (driver?)
[    9.567989] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[    9.576310] [<c0017c20>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [<c031d124>] (panic+0x50/0x194)
[    9.584544] [<c031d124>] (panic+0x50/0x194) from [<c045dbe8>] (mount_block_root+0x234/0x284)
[    9.593041] [<c045dbe8>] (mount_block_root+0x234/0x284) from [<c045ddc4>] (prepare_namespace+0x128/0x188)
[    9.602655] [<c045ddc4>] (prepare_namespace+0x128/0x188) from [<c045d880>] (kernel_init+0x100/0x130)
[    9.611813] [<c045d880>] (kernel_init+0x100/0x130) from [<c0012ff8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

Sorry i have made it too work now.

Hi

i have a mssii and i would like to install debian on my mssii. Can i get your kernel your rootfs and a small howto for the installation.

Florian

I've managed to boot Arch Linux ARM on the MSS2 - it should be a similar way with every ARM (orion) enabled distribution.

First you need a serial cable (3,3V !!) to see what is going on - a Nokia DKU-5 for example (4pin header beside the Marvell chip and the SATA header) - I connected the wires from my cable in direction from the Marvell chip to the border of the pcb as following:

white / blue / green / none


Next - the partition with the kernel must not be formatted with ext2 on an actual linux distribution - the uboot installed on the mss2 won't read this - maybe this has something to do with the inode size? ( ... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-March/049766.html )


I do the following:

* copied the partition table and enough bytes for the complete first partition from the original disk to another one (same size - 320gb in my case)

* after this I deleted all partitions except the first one
* created a second one with a size of 4GB

* this second partition was formatted with mkfs.ext2

* mounted the second partition to /example

* mkdir /example/boot

* mounted the first partition to /example/boot

* deleted everything (use rm - not format!) in /example/boot (the complete old linux system from maxtor was located here)

* decompressed the Arch Linux ARM rootfs in /example

* chrooted to /example (from now it has to be a ARM-Box - no x86)

* installed the linux-orion kernel package (http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1400&p=8110&hilit=maxtor#p8110) - add the repo to pacman / install devio / install linux-orion (choose the right device!) + linux-headers-orion


Now the disk is bootable from the MSS2 - but only with editing some variables on every boot time - and this is my problem for now ... (I will open a new thread for this problem).