Pogo E02 tries to boot from a non-rootfs drive. (9 replies)

Hi there,

I am using a 4GB USB stick to boot my pogoplug E02 with the latest kernel (5.10.7) which seems to be ok. But when I tried to attach a 320GB hard drive with a single partition with no rootfs label, it seems the system tried to boot from the hard drive and was never successful. How should I fix it?

[Note that the hard drive partition is ext4 and was hooked up to another debian on my dockstar as a data drive. I never had problem booting on it, but now I am using the E02 as a nextcloud server, I try to move it here.]

Here is the log when the hard drive was not attached:

U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:13:18 -0700)
Pogo E02
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.28
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
Initializing devices...
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 
Use USB retry period from the environment: 15 second(s)
1 Storage Device(s) found
Unknown command 'ide' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'
Loading envs from usb 0...
33 bytes read in 599 ms (0 Bytes/s)
... envs loaded
importing envs ...
running scan_disk ...
Scan device usb
device usb 0:1
1 bytes read in 539 ms (0 Bytes/s)
Found bootable drive on usb 0
5316528 bytes read in 851 ms (6 MiB/s)
9662424 bytes read in 1023 ms (9 MiB/s)
10106 bytes read in 3568 ms (2 KiB/s)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-5.10.7-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2021-02-21   9:31:25 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    5316464 Bytes = 5.1 MiB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
   Image Name:   initramfs-5.10.7
   Created:      2021-02-26   3:00:20 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    9662360 Bytes = 9.2 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01c00000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1c00000


Starting kernel ...

And here is when the hard drive was attached and ran into a problem.

U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:13:18 -0700)
Pogo E02
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.28
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
Initializing devices...
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 
Use USB retry period from the environment: 15 second(s)

Use USB retry period from the environment: 15 second(s)
2 Storage Device(s) found
Unknown command 'ide' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'mmc' - try 'help'
Loading envs from usb 0...
** File not found /boot/uEnv.txt **
Loading envs from usb 1...
33 bytes read in 599 ms (0 Bytes/s)
... envs loaded
importing envs ...
running scan_disk ...
Scan device usb
device usb 0:1
** File not found /boot/uImage **
device usb 1:1
1 bytes read in 538 ms (0 Bytes/s)
Found bootable drive on usb 1
** File not found /boot/uImage **
** File not found /boot/uInitrd **
** File not found /boot/dts/kirkwood-pogo_e02.dtb **
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
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