GoFlexHome not booting from disk

Sat May 25 09:27:14 UTC 2019

The question was about using a kernel which supported hard disks rather
than anything to do with U-Boot. My U-Boot works fine.

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 5:27 PM James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc> wrote:

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> *From:* James Shuriff
> *Sent:* Friday, May 24, 2019 12:26 PM
> *To:* 'Balanga Bar' <balanga.bar at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
> *Subject:* RE: GoFlexHome not booting from disk
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> 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**.
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> - James Shuriff
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> *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
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> 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.
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> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:20 AM Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> By goflexhome_defconfig do you mean this?
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> https://github.com/sbabic/u-boot-imx/blob/master/configs/goflexhome_defconfig
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> I've never heard of it and don't know how it works.
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> Are there any instructions?
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> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:41 PM James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc> wrote:
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> 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?
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> - James Shuriff
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> *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
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> Not sure what goflexhome_defconfig is - can't say I've ever heard of it.
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> I'm using DOCKSTAR.
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> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:14 PM James Shuriff <james at opentech.cc> wrote:
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> What kernconf are you using? I assume you built U-Boot using
> goflexhome_defconfig.
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> - James Shuriff
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> -----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
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> 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.
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> Could anyone suggest what I need to check?
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> 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:-
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> ***********************************   USB
> ************************************************************
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> 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
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> 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 ...
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> 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
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> FreeBSD/arm U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2
> (Thu Nov 30 14:06:37 GMT 2017 root at Test)
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> 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:
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> ***********************************   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
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> 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 ...
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> * 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
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> FreeBSD/arm U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2
> (Thu Nov 30 14:06:37 GMT 2017 root at Test)
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> 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:
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> can't load 'kernel'
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> ******************************************************************************************************
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> Not sure why it doesn't identify the IDE disk as a U-Boot device....
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