GoFlexHome not booting from disk

Thu May 23 00:32:18 UTC 2019

This goflexhome_defconfig seems to be concerned with U-Boot, whereas the
problem I'm experiencing is more likely related to the FreeBSD kernel. I'm
using a KERNCONF=DOCKSTAR and it may well need amending.

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:20 AM Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got my U-Boot from the doozan list - https://forum.doozan.com/list.php?3.
> It is one which includes the U-Boot API.
>
> By goflexhome_defconfig do you mean this?
>
>
> https://github.com/sbabic/u-boot-imx/blob/master/configs/goflexhome_defconfig
>
> I've never heard of it and don't know how it works.
>
> Are there any instructions?
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:41 PM James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc> wrote:
>
>> U-Boot supports many different boards through “defconfigs”. The
>> goflexhome_defconfig sets up U-Boot to build for GoFlexHome. How did you
>> build/acquire U-Boot?
>>
>>
>>
>> - James Shuriff
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 22, 2019 6:20 PM
>> *To:* James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc>
>> *Cc:* freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
>> *Subject:* Re: GoFlexHome not booting from disk
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure what goflexhome_defconfig is - can't say I've ever heard of it.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm using DOCKSTAR.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:14 PM James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc> wrote:
>>
>> What kernconf are you using? I assume you built U-Boot using
>> goflexhome_defconfig.
>>
>> - James Shuriff
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-arm at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> On
>> Behalf Of Balanga Bar
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 6:02 PM
>> To: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
>> Subject: GoFlexHome not booting from disk
>>
>> I've managed to build FreeBSD 11.1 for armv5 so that I can boot up my
>> GoFlex Home from USB but when I copy the same files to a hard disk it will
>> not boot.
>>
>> Could anyone suggest what I need to check?
>>
>> I have logs for both instances and can display them if necessary, but the
>> main difference is the when attempting to boot from USB I get the
>> following:-
>>
>> ***********************************   USB
>> ************************************************************
>>
>> Initializing devices...
>> 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
>> Loading envs from usb 0...
>> reading /boot/uEnv.txt
>> 146 bytes read in 63 ms (2 KiB/s)
>> ... envs loaded
>> importing envs ...
>>
>> reading ubldr
>> 295973 bytes read in 85 ms (3.3 MiB/s)
>> ## Starting application at 0x01000098 ...
>> Consoles: U-Boot console..
>> Compatible U-Boot API signature found @0x7b12860
>>
>> FreeBSD/arm U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2
>> (Thu Nov 30 14:06:37 GMT 2017 root at Test)
>>
>> DRAM: 128MB
>> Number of U-Boot devices: 2
>> U-Boot env: loaderdev not set, will probe all devices.
>> Found U-Boot device: disk
>>   Probing all disk devices...
>>   Checking unit=0 slice=<auto> partition=<auto>... good.
>> Booting from disk0s2a:
>>
>> ***********************************   IDE
>> ************************************************************
>> Initializing devices...
>> starting USB...
>> USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
>> canning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>>        scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
>>
>> Reset IDE: Bus 0: .OK Bus 1: not available..
>>   Device 0: Model: HTS541020G9SA00  Firm: MB1OC60J Ser#: MPBAL0X1C5LD1M
>>             Type: Hard Disk
>>             Supports 48-bit addressing
>>             Capacity: 19077.1 MB = 18.6 GB (39070080 x 512) Loading envs
>> from ide 0...
>> reading /boot/uEnv.txt
>> 134 bytes read in 46 ms (2 KiB/s)
>> ... envs loaded
>> importing envs ...
>>
>> * Bad device ide 1 **
>> reading ubldr
>> 295973 bytes read in 140 ms (2 MiB/s)
>> ## Starting application at 0x01000098 ...
>> Consoles: U-Boot console
>> Compatible U-Boot API signature found @0x7b12860
>>
>> FreeBSD/arm U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2
>> (Thu Nov 30 14:06:37 GMT 2017 root at Test)
>>
>> DRAM: 128MB
>> Number of U-Boot devices: 1
>> U-Boot env: loaderdev not set, will probe all devices.
>> Found U-Boot device: net
>> Booting from net0:
>>
>> can't load 'kernel'
>>
>>
>> ******************************************************************************************************
>>
>> Not sure why it doesn't identify the IDE disk as a U-Boot device....
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