Succesfully booting debian on NanoNote

Rafael Campos methril at gmail.com
Mon May 10 22:58:46 EDT 2010


Hi David,

Nice testing!!
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez
<david at tuxbrain.com> wrote:
> After some trial and error, and  conecting the serial cable to read
> the kernel messages I can find an *almost sure* way to flash debian on
> BNN:
> uboot:
> latest:
> # wget http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/software/images/Ben_NanoNote_2GB_NAND/latest/openwrt-xburst-u-boot.bin
>
> or if you want to have TP4 TP5 as UART until the patch is applied to
> (this is the one I'm actually using)
> # wget http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/xiangfu/tmp/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin
>
> kernel:
> # wget http://pyneo.org/downloads/nano/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-uImage.bin
>
> rootfs:
> # wget http://mister-muffin.de/nanonote/debian-sid.ubi
>
> Put your nano in USBboot mode and and as root
> # usbboot -c "boot"
> # usbboot -c "nerase 0 4096 0 0"
> # usbboot -c "nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n"
> # usbboot -c "nprog 1024 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-uImage.bin 0 0 -n"
> # usbboot -c "nprog 2048 debian-sid.ubi 0 0 -n"
>
> Thinks you have to have in mind, once flashed when booting, try to
> avoid to have an SD card inserted due if for watever reason there are
> some corruption on a filesystem on any partition, system waits you
> enter in mantenaince mode to do fckdsk and fix the error.
> The serial output give me this
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
> /dev/mmcblk0p2: Superblock last mount time (Tue Jan  6 04:28:04 1970,
>        now = Thu Jan  1 00:22:26 1970) is in the future.
>
>
> /dev/mmcblk0p2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>        (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> fsck died with exit status 4
> failed (code 4).
> File system check failed. A log is being saved in
> /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable. Please repair the
> file system manually. ... failed!
> A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will terminate this
> shell and resume system boot. ... (warning).
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue):
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> But in the BNN screen is a pretty empty black or the last Kernel
> messages, not this text so without the serial you just think it hangs,
> booting again without the sd inserted boots fine, inserting the card
> after booting also works (mounting manually of course)
>
> Also don't waste you time in the big debian rootfs[1] if not is to try
> to know why it doesn't load,
> here you have a pic with the error it gives (is the same as in the serial)
> http://www.tuxbrain.com/sites/default/files/debiankernelpanic.jpg
> after it there are not more signs of live from BNN an yes I have
> tryied in all ways posible, with different uboots, erasing all nand,
> doing it first, doing it last, with battery, without, dancing,
> singing, happy, sad, even with sweet words but no way it just don't
> load.
This message give me a idea that ubifs is not compiled statically in
the kernel. You could try an option to load the kernel module ubifs or
tell the kernel your rootfstype=ubifs at boot cmd (in u-boot env
vars). I didn't test it, but works similar with other missing
filesystems. Hope it helps :)
>
> following is the full serial output with the combination tp4-5 enabled
> uboot+pyneo kernel+josch rootfs from begining to end due I find there
> are some errors/warnings while booting but HEY IT BOOTS!!!
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> NAND Secondary Program Loader
>
> Starting U-Boot ...
>
>
> U-Boot 2009.11 (Apr 27 2010 - 13:22:26)
>
> Board: Qi LB60 (Ingenic XBurst Jz4740 SoC, Speed 336 MHz)
> DRAM:  32 MB
> NAND:  2048 MiB
> *** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment
>
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32.10 (mdt at marple) (gcc version 4.3.3
> (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Sat Apr 24 13:09:47 CEST 2010
> [    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
> [    0.000000] CPU revision is: 0ad0024f (Ingenic JZRISC)
> [    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
> [    0.000000] User-defined physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000]  memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
> [    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
> [    0.000000]   Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
> [    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
> [    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
> [    0.000000]     0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
> [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
> Total pages: 8128
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: mem=32M console=tty0
> console=ttyS0,57600n8 ubi.mtd=2 rootfstype=ubifs root=ubi0:rootfs rw
> rootwait
> [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
> [    0.000000] Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases,
> linesize 32 bytes
> [    0.000000] Memory: 28384k/32768k available (2817k kernel code,
> 4384k reserved, 955k data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
> [    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
> [    0.000000] NR_IRQS:184
> [    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32.10 (mdt at marple) (gcc version 4.3.3
> (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Sat Apr 24 13:09:47 CEST 2010
> [    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
> [    0.000000] CPU revision is: 0ad0024f (Ingenic JZRISC)
> [    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
> [    0.000000] User-defined physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000]  memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
> [    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
> [    0.000000]   Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
> [    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
> [    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
> [    0.000000]     0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
> [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
> Total pages: 8128
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: mem=32M console=tty0
> console=ttyS0,57600n8 ubi.mtd=2 rootfstype=ubifs root=ubi0:rootfs rw
> rootwait
> [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
> [    0.000000] Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases,
> linesize 32 bytes
> [    0.000000] Memory: 28384k/32768k available (2817k kernel code,
> 4384k reserved, 955k data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
> [    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
> [    0.000000] NR_IRQS:184
> [    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> [    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
> [    0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
> [    0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
> [    0.040000] Calibrating delay loop... 335.05 BogoMIPS (lpj=1675264)
> [    0.280000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> [    0.300000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
> [    0.320000] Qi Hardware JZ4740 QI_LB60 setup
> [    0.330000] JZ GPIO initalized
> [    0.390000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
> [    0.410000] Switching to clocksource jz4740-timer
> [    0.440000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
> [    0.450000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> [    0.460000] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> [    0.470000] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> [    0.480000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
> [    0.490000] TCP reno registered
> [    0.500000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
> [    0.520000] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
> [    0.530000] msgmni has been set to 55
> [    0.550000] io scheduler noop registered
> [    0.550000] io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
> [    0.560000] io scheduler deadline registered
> [    0.560000] io scheduler cfq registered
> [    0.590000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 40x15
> [    0.710000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
> �+$HH��.720000] serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 17) is a 16550A
> [    0.730000] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xd5
> (Samsung NAND 2GiB 3,3V 8-bit)
> [    0.740000] Scanning device for bad blocks
> [    1.020000] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "jz4740-nand":
> [    1.030000] 0x000000000000-0x000000400000 : "NAND BOOT partition"
> [    1.050000] 0x000000400000-0x000000800000 : "NAND KERNEL partition"
> [    1.070000] 0x000000800000-0x000080000000 : "NAND ROOTFS partition"
> [    1.080000] jz4740-nand jz4740-nand.0: Successfully registered
> JZ4740 NAND driver
> [    1.090000] UBI: attaching mtd2 to ubi0
> [    1.100000] UBI: physical eraseblock size:   524288 bytes (512 KiB)
> [    1.110000] UBI: logical eraseblock size:    516096 bytes
> [    1.120000] UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    4096
> [    1.130000] UBI: VID header offset:          4096 (aligned 4096)
> [    1.140000] UBI: data offset:                8192
> [    9.850000] UBI: attached mtd2 to ubi0
> [    9.860000] UBI: MTD device name:            "NAND ROOTFS partition"
> [    9.870000] UBI: MTD device size:            2040 MiB
> [    9.880000] UBI: number of good PEBs:        4080
> [    9.890000] UBI: number of bad PEBs:         0
> [    9.900000] UBI: max. allowed volumes:       128
> [    9.910000] UBI: wear-leveling threshold:    4096
> [    9.920000] UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
> [    9.930000] UBI: number of user volumes:     1
> [    9.940000] UBI: available PEBs:             0
> [    9.950000] UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 4080
> [    9.960000] UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
> [    9.970000] UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/0
> [    9.980000] UBI: image sequence number: 0
> [    9.990000] UBI: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 201
> [   10.010000] g_ether gadget: using random self ethernet address
> [   10.020000] g_ether gadget: using random host ethernet address
> [   10.030000] usb0: MAC 56:45:0f:2f:f4:ac
> [   10.040000] usb0: HOST MAC d6:37:72:3e:86:79
> [   10.050000] g_ether gadget: controller 'jz-udc' not recognized;
> trying CDC Ethernet (ECM)
> [   10.060000] g_ether gadget: Ethernet Gadget, version: Memorial Day 2008
> [   10.070000] g_ether gadget: g_ether ready
> [   10.080000] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0
> [   10.090000] input: matrix-keypad as
> /devices/platform/matrix-keypad/input/input1
> [   10.110000] jz4740-rtc jz4740-rtc: rtc core: registered jz4740-rtc as rtc0
> [   10.130000] JZ SD/MMC card driver registered
> [   10.140000] TCP cubic registered
> [   10.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [   10.180000] jz4740-rtc jz4740-rtc: setting system clock to
> 1970-01-01 00:23:46 UTC (1426)
> [   10.350000] g_ether gadget: high speed config #1: CDC Ethernet (ECM)
> [   10.520000] UBIFS: recovery needed
> [   11.480000] UBIFS: recovery completed
> [   11.490000] UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs"
> [   11.500000] UBIFS: file system size:   2077802496 bytes (2029104
> KiB, 1981 MiB, 4026 LEBs)
> [   11.510000] UBIFS: journal size:       10452992 bytes (10208 KiB, 9
> MiB, 21 LEBs)
> [   11.520000] UBIFS: media format:       w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0)
> [   11.540000] UBIFS: default compressor: zlib
> [   11.550000] UBIFS: reserved for root:  0 bytes (0 KiB)
> [   11.560000] VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:11.
> [   11.580000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed
> [   11.720000] Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.
> Setting preliminary keymap...done.
> hostname: the specified hostname is invalid
> Activating swap...done.
> Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32.10/modules.dep: No
> such file or directory
>
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32.10/modules.dep: No
> such file or directory
>
> fsck: fsck.auto: not found
> fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.auto for /lib/init/rw/rootdev
> done.
> Cleaning up ifupdown....
> Loading kernel modules...done.
> Activating lvm and md swap...done.
> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
> done.
> Setting up networking....
> Mounting local filesystems...mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> failed.
> Activating swapfile swap...done.
> Cleaning up temporary files....
> Configuring network interfaces...neo: Host name lookup failure
> ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
> Failed to bring up usb0.
> done.
> Setting kernel variables ...error: "net.ipv6.bindv6only" is an unknown key
> failed.
> Cleaning up temporary files....
> Setting console screen modes and fonts.
> cannot (un)set powersave mode
>  [9;30] [14;30]Setting up console font and keymap...done.
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting system log daemon....
> Starting kernel log daemon....
> Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdCould not load host key:
> /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> And then a pretty login prompt appear in the BNN :)
>
> I hope this can be usefull to any one willing to start hacking on debian,
>
> Regards
> PD.- Due I guess the josch image is still a draft  I have not put this
> page in to the wiki or in my blog, once the pyneos guys gives me an ok
> on the rootfs I will do so.
>
> Regards(again)
>
>
> --
> David Reyes Samblas Martinez
> http://www.tuxbrain.com
> Open ultraportable & embedded solutions
> Ben NanoNote, Arduino, Openmoko
> Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!!
>
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Regards,

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