GoFlexHome not booting from disk

Fri May 24 16:26:31 UTC 2019

I was trying to figure out his line of thought, or if he was following some guide somewhere. If he didn’t build U-Boot himself he got it from *somewhere*.

- James Shuriff

From: Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9:32 PM
To: James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc>
Cc: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GoFlexHome not booting from disk

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:balanga.bar at gmail.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 6:20 PM
To: James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc<mailto:james at opentech.cc>>
Cc: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:owner-freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> <owner-freebsd-arm at freebsd.org<mailto: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<mailto: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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