rpi4b main-n245392-8423f5d4c12 won't boot due to microsd timeout

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-Mar-11, at 17:59, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> main-n245392-8423f5d4c12 built and installed fine. On reboot it seems
> the microsd card times out. Console log is here:
> https://cloud.zyxst.net/~john/FreeBSD/main-n245392-8423f5d4c12-no-debug-failboot.txt
> 
> Booting kernel.old works fine. This one is from
> main-n244802-88db1cc9f19 (Feb 14th)
> 
> Nothing else has been changed configuration-wise, same msdos partition,
> same config.txt. Only thing that has changed is /usr/src has been
> updated, built and installed as of main-n245392-8423f5d4c12 (March
> 11th).
> 
> Should I raise this in bugzilla?

Note: I use the official snapshot

FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210311-15565e0a217-257277.img.xz

and its:

# strings /mnt/boot/kernel/kernel | grep 15565e0a217
@(#)FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-n245383-15565e0a217: Thu Mar 11 08:02:52 UTC 2021
FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-n245383-15565e0a217: Thu Mar 11 08:02:52 UTC 2021

For some comparisons to what you report about your
build.



Some oddities in your report that might need to be
addressed first to make things more comparable
are . . .

Your log file shows:

U-Boot 2020.07-rc3-00208-g88bd5b1793-dirty (Jun 06 2020 - 20:33:00 +0100)

But FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210311-15565e0a217-257277.img.xz
has:

# strings /mnt/u-boot.bin | grep 2020
2020.10
U-Boot 2020.10 (Mar 11 2021 - 04:30:22 +0000)

This makes comparison of results messier. You might
want to copy the snapshot file over to your
media.


For reference the snapshot for 15565e0a217
also has:

# strings /mnt/start4.elf | grep VC_BUILD_ID_
VC_BUILD_ID_USER: dom
VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: 12:10:40
VC_BUILD_ID_VARIANT: start
VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: Feb 25 2021
VC_BUILD_ID_BRANCH: bcm2711_2
VC_BUILD_ID_HOSTNAME: buildbot
VC_BUILD_ID_PLATFORM: raspberrypi_linux
VC_BUILD_ID_VERSION: 564e5f9b852b23a330b1764bcf0b2d022a20afd0 (clean)

The Feb 25 2021 start4.elf build is from the officially
tagged 1.20210303 rpi* material from:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/1.20210303/boot/
( which is what a modern sysutils/rpi-firmware has in
part of /usr/local/share/rpi-firmware/ )

Note: many files other than start*.elf are involved but
many do not have such nice, checkable version strings
to look at.

What vintage/variant was your experiment was based on?

You might want to copy the snapshot's material over to
your media if your media does not match.


Your log file shows:

    FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
    (Thu Sep 17 07:58:43 UTC 2020 root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org)

But FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210311-15565e0a217-257277.img.xz
has:

# strings /mnt/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi | egrep '(FreeBSD/|root@)'
FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
(Thu Mar 11 07:29:18 UTC 2021 root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org)

I do not have sizes or content to compare to see if there
are actual differences. FYI:

# ls -Tld /mnt/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1258796 Mar 10 23:29:52 2021 /mnt/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi

You might want to copy the snapshot's material over to
your media if your media does not match.


With the deliberate matching of materials, re-running the
experiment and basing any report on the result with a
description of the context would avoid worries about the
mismatches contributing to the behaviorial issues. (I've
no clue if they actually matter or not.)

===
Mark Millard
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