Stuck after u-boot update (NetgearSTORA)

Hi there,

i updated U-Boot of my Netgear Stora, following the instructions here: https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381
and also tried to run a Debian rootfs from a usb stick.

I am not sure what went wrong an why the System does not boot up.

would be nice to get any advice

U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:38:05 -0700)
Netgear Stora MS2110

SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A0
DRAM:  128 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
NAND:  256 MiB
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   egiga0
PHY reset timed out
88E1116 Initialized on egiga0
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices...
Use USB retry period from the environment: 15 second(s)
1 Storage Device(s) found

Reset IDE: ide_preinit failed
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'

Partition Map for USB device 0  --   Partition Type: EFI

Part    Start LBA       End LBA         Name
        Attributes
        Type GUID
        Partition GUID
  1     0x00000800      0x00ee6bde      " "
        attrs:  0x0000000000000000
        type:   0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
        type:   linux
        guid:   1c42b9ef-f6ca-4b08-8e31-52d4cd41f321

## Unknown partition table type 0

## Unknown partition table type 0

## Unknown partition table type 0

## Unknown partition table type 0

## Unknown partition table type 0

## Unknown partition table type 0
loading envs from usb 0 ...
** File not found /boot/uEnv.txt **

no IDE devices available
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'
running scan_disk ...
Scan device usb
device usb 0:1
1 bytes read in 723 ms (0 Bytes/s)
Found bootable drive on usb 0
loading uImage ...
3833461 bytes read in 918 ms (4 MiB/s)
loading uInitrd ...
7245696 bytes read in 987 ms (7 MiB/s)
loading DTB /boot/dts/kirkwood-netgear_stora_ms2000.dtb ...
11869 bytes read in 2645 ms (3.9 KiB/s)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2018-03-05  21:09:10 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    3833397 Bytes = 3.7 MiB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
   Image Name:   initramfs-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2017-07-24   0:18:23 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    7245632 Bytes = 6.9 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01c00000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1c00000
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
   Loading Ramdisk to 03917000, end 03ffff40 ... OK
   Loading Device Tree to 03911000, end 03916e5c ... OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1 (root@tldDebian) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10) ) #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 15 21:40:50 PDT 2017
[    0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0005397f
[    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: NETGEAR MS2000 / MS2110 aka Stora
[    0.000000] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 earlyprintk
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 116496K/131072K available (8192K kernel code, 716K rwdata, 1972K rodata, 1024K init, 288K bss, 14576K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xff800000   ( 880 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000   ( 128 MB)
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000   (  16 MB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0900000   (9184 kB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xc0c00000 - 0xc0d00000   (1024 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xc0d00000 - 0xc0db3274   ( 717 kB)
[    0.000000]        .bss : 0xc0db9b9c - 0xc0e01e60   ( 289 kB)
[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[    0.000000] clocksource: orion_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns
[    0.000009] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns
[    0.007992] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 5ns
[    0.014578] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.019217] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 400.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=2000000)
[    0.029934] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.034894] Security Framework initialized
[    0.039294] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.046044] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.054360] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.060610] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100058
[    0.067219] mvebu-soc-id: MVEBU SoC ID=0x6281, Rev=0x2
[    0.076314] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.084902] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.094979] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[    0.101725] prandom: seed boundary self test passed
[    0.111265] prandom: 100 self tests passed
[    0.115476] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.122232] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.127282] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.136249] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    0.140616] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.145099] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[    0.148884] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[    0.154295] [Firmware Info]: /ocp@f1000000/ethernet-controller@72000/ethernet0-port@0: local-mac-address is not set
[    0.171064] No ATAGs?
[    0.182186] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.187736] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.192209] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.197885] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.203458] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.209902] clocksource: Switched to clocksource orion_clocksource
[    0.323901] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.328008] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.347802] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.353184] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.360330] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.366815] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[    0.373404] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.379366] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.385981] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.390969] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.397007] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.401910] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.406720] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.413700] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[    0.421481] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.427521] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    0.432171] audit: type=2000 audit(0.417:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[    0.440147] Key type blacklist registered
[    0.444402] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=15 bucket_order=0
[    0.451123] zbud: loaded
[    0.454901] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.460208] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.464499] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.468630] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.475504] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[    0.482229] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.489618] fuse init (API version 7.26)
[    0.494122] orangefs_debugfs_init: called with debug mask: :none: :0:
[    0.501011] orangefs_init: module version upstream loaded
[    0.506522] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, no debug enabled
[    2.559910] random: fast init done
[    7.558394] Key type asymmetric registered
[    7.562885] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[    7.567939] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 249)
[    7.575662] io scheduler noop registered
[    7.579688] io scheduler deadline registered
[    7.584218] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    7.590605] kirkwood-pinctrl f1010000.pin-controller: registered pinctrl driver
[    7.600293] mvebu-pcie mbus@f1000000:pcie-controller@82000000: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[    7.608954] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x1000-0xfffff]
[    7.615378] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff]
[    7.622404] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[    7.628390] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[    7.634129] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[    7.642465] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[    7.648141] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[    7.653893] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    7.720810] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy sg intr )
[    7.728767] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    7.790807] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy sg intr )
[    7.798998] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    7.807093] console [ttyS0] disabled
[    7.810923] f1012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 26, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A
[    7.820114] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    7.820114] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    7.827206] bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
[    7.827206] bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
[    7.846237] loop: module loaded
[    7.850157] sata_mv f1080000.sata: slots 32 ports 2
[    7.858394] scsi host0: sata_mv
[    7.862136] scsi host1: sata_mv
[    7.865573] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 33
[    7.869692] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 33
[    7.874738] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xda
[    7.881244] nand: Samsung NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit
[    7.885885] nand: 256 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[    7.893524] Scanning device for bad blocks
[    7.927819] Bad eraseblock 280 at 0x000002300000
[    7.937153] Bad eraseblock 324 at 0x000002880000
[    8.047119] Bad eraseblock 1304 at 0x00000a300000
[    8.132061] 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand
[    8.137957] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[    8.143183] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
[    8.149749] 0x000000100000-0x000000700000 : "uImage"
[    8.156400] 0x000000700000-0x000010000000 : "root"
[    8.166217] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    8.171464] libphy: orion_mdio_bus: probed
[    8.175650] [Firmware Warn]: /ocp@f1000000/mdio-bus@72004/ethernet-phy@8: Whitelisted compatible string. Please remove
[    8.187424] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[    8.214627] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[    8.561386] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[    9.296544] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0 eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:26:f2:6e:85:1f
[    9.305455] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    9.312066] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[    9.316599] ehci-orion: EHCI orion driver
[    9.320903] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller
[    9.326450] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    9.334384] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: irq 30, io mem 0xf1050000
[    9.369944] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    9.376281] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[    9.383138] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    9.390426] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[    9.395327] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1 ehci_hcd
[    9.402082] usb usb1: SerialNumber: f1050000.ehci
[    9.407596] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    9.411485] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    9.416174] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    9.422669] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    9.769944] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[    9.961019] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5567
[    9.967783] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    9.975001] usb 1-1: Product: Cruzer Blade
[    9.979122] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[    9.983263] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 200608757011CCE0899C
[    9.989402] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[    9.995995] scsi host2: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[   10.489938] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: internal RTC not ticking
[   10.495587] i2c /dev entries driver
[   10.506215] rtc-pcf8563 0-0051: rtc core: registered rtc-pcf8563 as rtc0
[   10.516333] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[   10.522296] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service
[   10.528879] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   10.533480] Key type dns_resolver registered
[   10.538694] registered taskstats version 1
[   10.542855] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[   10.547739] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud
[   10.555038] Key type big_key registered
[   10.561228] Key type encrypted registered
[   10.568209] rtc-pcf8563 0-0051: setting system clock to 2018-03-05 23:55:12 UTC (1520294112)
[   10.577902] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[   10.585612] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[   10.594084] 1f00            1024 mtdblock0
[   10.594091]  (driver?)
[   10.600715] 1f01            6144 mtdblock1
[   10.600721]  (driver?)
[   10.607295] 1f02          254976 mtdblock2
[   10.607299]  (driver?)
[   10.613897] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[   10.622207] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1 #1
[   10.629281] Hardware name: Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree)
[   10.635616] [<c010ea54>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010ab48>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[   10.643411] [<c010ab48>] (show_stack) from [<c01dba9c>] (panic+0xb0/0x250)
[   10.650330] [<c01dba9c>] (panic) from [<c0c01274>] (mount_block_root+0x204/0x27c)
[   10.657859] [<c0c01274>] (mount_block_root) from [<c0c013d8>] (mount_root+0xec/0x118)
[   10.665731] [<c0c013d8>] (mount_root) from [<c0c01528>] (prepare_namespace+0x124/0x184)
[   10.673780] [<c0c01528>] (prepare_namespace) from [<c0c00e90>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x260)
[   10.682708] [<c0c00e90>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0833200>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x10c)
[   10.690935] [<c0833200>] (kernel_init) from [<c01070f0>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
[   10.698550] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[   11.060630] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[   11.081961] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 15625216 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
[   11.090556] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   11.095383] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[   11.120679] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[   11.126040] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   11.168628]  sda: sda1
[   11.183182] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

Eslon,

New U-Boot was installed OK. The rootfs Debian-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 creation has problem.

When you create this rootfs, note this step 4:

Quote

4. 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).

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-4.12.1-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-4.12.1-kirkwood-tld-1 -d zImage.fdt uImage
sync

Basically, after you have installed the new u-boot, and booting with it, step 4 must be skipped. So the uImage must be the original.


Mount the USB rootfs on another Linux box and restore uImage. Assuming it is mounted at /media/sdb1.

cd /media/sdb1/boot
cp -a uImage uImage.netgear_stora.embedded.DTB
mv uImage.orig uImage
sync

And now you can boot the Stora with this USB rootfs.

-bodhi
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/2018 03:24AM by bodhi.