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Re: [2nd try] unassigned-hostname on Lanner EM7210 (Thermaltake Muse NAS-RAID N0001LN)



Mello <mellowiz@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> More details...
> I've re-installed and I've verified that the same error occurs at the same
> step. Below the message:
> Configuring flash memory to boot the system  ..33%..66%
> Make the system bootable
> ------------------------
>
> !! ERROR: Installation step failed
>
> An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from
> the
> menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Make the
> system bootable
> [Press enter to continue]

d-i doesn't support iq31244/ep80219 so it's not suprising imho.

>
> I've once again chose to continue without that knowing that I could
> interrupt the boot sequence and use TFTP.
> This time I've managed to boot it almost properly with the following
> sequence:
> RedBoot> fis load ramdisk.gz
> RedBoot> load -r -v -h 192.168.1.101 -b 0x01008000 -m tftp
> vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-iop32x
> -----------<suppressed output>-------------
> Raw file loaded 0x01008000-0x0113a69f, assumed entry at 0x01008000
> RedBoot> exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw root=/dev/sda1
> mem=512M@0xa0000000" -r 0x01800000
>
> Eventually it hangs because of an error in communicating with the disk. Full
> log is attached.
>
> Questions:
> 1. how to correctly write boot image to flash?

doing something like cat [vmlinuz] > /dev/mtdX should do the trick I
guess but I would wait a little bit before doing it.

> 2. anybody is able to decode what the disk error (ata4.00: exception Emask
> 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen) means?

Might be irq or timer troubles...

[...]

> RedBoot> exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw root=/dev/sda1 mem=512M@0xa0000000" -r 0x01800000
> Using base address 0x01008000 and length 0x001326a0
> The boot tags are located at 0xA0000100
> Booting the kernel...
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
> [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-5-iop32x (Debian 2.6.32-29) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 Fri Dec 10 19:47:27 UTC 2010
> [    0.000000] CPU: XScale-80219 [69052e20] revision 0 (ARMv5TE), cr=0000397f
> [    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> [    0.000000] Machine: Intel IQ31244
> [    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
> [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 130048
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw root=/dev/sda1 mem=512M@0xa0000000
> [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> [    0.000000] Memory: 512MB = 512MB total
> [    0.000000] Memory: 511744KB available (3080K code, 444K data, 112K init, 0K highmem)
> [    0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> [    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
> [    0.000000] NR_IRQS:32
> [    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
> [    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 394.85 BogoMIPS (lpj=1974272)
> [    0.220000] Security Framework initialized
> [    0.220000] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
> [    0.220000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> [    0.220000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
> [    0.220000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
> [    0.220000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
> [    0.220000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
> [    0.220000] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
> [    0.220000] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
> [    0.220000] devtmpfs: initialized
> [    0.220000] regulator: core version 0.5
> [    0.220000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
> [    0.220000] note: iq31244 board type has been selected
> [    0.220000] note: to select ep80219 operation:
> [    0.220000]  1/ specify "force_ep80219" on the kernel command line
> [    0.220000]  2/ update boot loader to pass the ep80219 id: 1281

So the kernel was booting in iq31244 mode but I would have tried
something like ep80219 support. Can you try with force_ep80219 on kernel
command line as advised ?

Arnaud


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