Booting to Debian doesn't work (1 reply)

I have a Seagate Dockstar and installed Debian on it years ago and it worked fine until about two weeks ago. I tried to repair it on my own, but had no success.

I have installed the latest uBoot like this: http://projects.doozan.com/uboot/ and as far as I can see that worked (see pasted output of netconsole below). I have a USB Stick in my dockstar with the latest debian (http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096) tarball extracted on it. That looks reasonable as well (see output below).

Previously I couldn't get the system to register the USB rootfs at all and it booted into the Pogoplug debian every time. That changed after I set the 'usb_rootfstype' from ext2 to ext3. (That is: it didn't recognize an ext2 partition as well).

Edit: setting

usb_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console root=$usb_root rootdelay=$usb_rootdelay rootfstype=ext3 $mtdparts $usb_custom_params

didn't fix it either.

Can I get the debian on the USB Stick to output to netconsole as well?

So, heres the outputs:
netconsole:

U-Boot 2014.07-tld-2 (Sep 20 2014 - 01:10:10)
Seagate FreeAgent DockStar
gcc (Debian 4.6.3-14) 4.6.3
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.22
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
(Re)start USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
** File not found /rescueme **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size:    129024 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    2048
UBI: sub-page size:              512
UBI: VID header offset:          512 (aligned 512)
UBI: data offset:                2048
UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name:            "mtd=3"
UBI: MTD device size:            219 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs:        1752
UBI: number of bad PEBs:         0
UBI: max. allowed volumes:       128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold:    4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes:     0
UBI: available PEBs:             1731
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 21
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 17
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/1
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "rootfs", error -22
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_mount: Error reading superblock on volume 'rootfs' errno=-22!

ubifsmount - mount UBIFS volume

Usage:
ubifsmount <volume-name>
    - mount 'volume-name' volume
1 bytes read in 178 ms (0 Bytes/s)
Found bootable drive on usb 0:1
2865664 bytes read in 311 ms (8.8 MiB/s)
6535284 bytes read in 412 ms (15.1 MiB/s)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2015-02-08   9:02:01 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    2865600 Bytes = 2.7 MiB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
   Image Name:   initramfs-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1
   Created:      2015-02-19   1:49:36 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    6535220 Bytes = 6.2 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK


Starting kernel ...

That looks like the debian should get started, but nothing happens after that point, but boot.log:

(Nothing has been logged yet.)

fw_printenv:

ethact=egiga0
bootdelay=3
baudrate=115200
mainlineLinux=yes
console=ttyS0,115200
led_init=green blinking
led_exit=green off
led_error=orange blinking
mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data)
mtdids=nand0=orion_nand
partition=nand0,2
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
rescue_installed=0
rescue_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0:rootfs ro rootfstype=ubifs $mtdparts $rescue_custom_params
rescue_bootcmd=if test $rescue_installed -eq 1; then run rescue_set_bootargs; nand read.e 0x800000 0x100000 0x400000; bootm 0x800000; else run pogo_bootcmd; fi
pogo_bootcmd=if fsload uboot-original-mtd0.kwb; then go 0x800200; fi
force_rescue=0
force_rescue_bootcmd=if test $force_rescue -eq 1 || ext2load usb 0:1 0x1700000 /rescueme 1 || fatload usb 0:1 0x1700000 /rescueme.txt 1; then run rescue_bootcmd; fi
ubifs_mtd=3
ubifs_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console ubi.mtd=$ubifs_mtd root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs $mtdparts $ubifs_custom_params
ubifs_bootcmd=run ubifs_set_bootargs; if ubi part data && ubifsmount rootfs && ubifsload 0x800000 /boot/uImage && ubifsload 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; fi
usb_scan=usb_scan_done=0;for scan in $usb_scan_list; do run usb_scan_$scan; if test $usb_scan_done -eq 0 && ext2load usb $usb 0x800000 /boot/uImage 1; then usb_scan_done=1; echo "Found bootable drive on usb $usb"; setenv usb_device $usb; setenv usb_root /dev/$dev; fi; done
usb_scan_list=1 2 3 4
usb_scan_1=usb=0:1 dev=sda1
usb_scan_2=usb=1:1 dev=sdb1
usb_scan_3=usb=2:1 dev=sdc1
usb_scan_4=usb=3:1 dev=sdd1
usb_init=run usb_scan
usb_device=0:1
usb_root=/dev/sda1
usb_rootdelay=10
usb_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console root=$usb_root rootdelay=$usb_rootdelay rootfstype=$usb_rootfstype $mtdparts $usb_custom_params
usb_bootcmd=run usb_init; run usb_set_bootargs; run usb_boot
usb_boot=mw 0x800000 0 1; ext2load usb $usb_device 0x800000 /boot/uImage; if ext2load usb $usb_device 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; else bootm 0x800000; fi
bootcmd=usb start; run force_rescue_bootcmd; run ubifs_bootcmd; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; run rescue_bootcmd; run pogo_bootcmd; reset
ethaddr=00:10:75:1A:D3:E6
arcNumber=2097
ipaddr=10.182.42.6
serverip=10.183.43.37
if_netconsole=ping $serverip
start_netconsole=setenv ncip $serverip; setenv bootdelay 10; setenv stdin nc; setenv stdout nc; setenv stderr nc; version;
preboot=run if_netconsole start_netconsole

content of /boot of the usb drive (done on my workstation, its sda on the dockstar):

root@morbid:/mnt/sdb1/boot# ls -hal
insgesamt 32M
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4,0K Feb 19 02:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4,0K Mär  8 10:49 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 129K Feb  6 12:59 config-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4,0K Feb  6 04:40 dts
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 6,3M Feb 19 02:49 initrd.img-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 9,1M Feb  6 13:05 linux-headers-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1_1_armel.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2,0M Feb  6 12:59 System.map-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2,8M Feb  8 10:02 uImage
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 6,3M Feb 19 02:49 uInitrd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2,8M Feb  6 12:59 vmlinuz-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2,8M Feb  6 04:17 zImage-3.18.5-kirkwood-tld-1

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 3,8 GiB, 4041211904 bytes, 7892992 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B987A286-6E86-4B1E-BDFB-505EC437D233

Device       Start     End Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1       62 5866749 5866688   2,8G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb2  5866750 7889499 2022750 987,7M Linux filesystem

gdisk /dev/sdb:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 7892992 sectors, 3.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): B987A286-6E86-4B1E-BDFB-505EC437D233
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7892958
Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3487 sectors (1.7 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              62         5866749   2.8 GiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   2         5866750         7889499   987.7 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem