Need help with install Debian on INTEL SS4000-e

Hello my name is Henk Smit. I tried to rebuild my NAS (Intel SS4000-e, default with linux and proprietary IPSTOR NAS software) with a fresh Debian OS. This unfortunately failed and now I have an unusable system. Can someone tell me what to do, to make this system operational again?

The steps that i have done.

First I enabled the SSH server on the default NAS software, and tried to update the system with the ss4000e.pkg software file (no changes to the system). Now I can connect the NAS throw putty terminal. Also I formatted all data from the hard disks (3x 1TB).

After this I downloaded the Debian installation files from the internet (initrd.zg and Zimage). With HyperTerminal and a serial cable connected to the NAS. The system reboots and I hit the control-C buttons to interrupt the system. To make a clean system I did erase the FIS memory by the fis inid command. The hard disk cannot be recognized at this moment and there is no connection possible via putty.

Below are the commands used to write the files in the flash memory:

- fis init (format all the flash apart from redboot)
- RedBoot> fis list
Name FLASH addr Mem addr Length Entry point
RedBoot 0xF0000000 0xF0000000 0x00040000 0x00000000
RedBoot config 0xF1FC0000 0xF1FC0000 0x00001000 0x00000000
FIS directory 0xF1FE0000 0xF1FE0000 0x00020000 0x00000000

- load -v -r -b 0x01800000 -m ymodem ramdisk.gz
- load -v -r -b 0x01008000 -m ymodem zImage

- load -v -r -b 0x01800000 -m ymodem ramdisk.gz
- fis unlock -f 0xF0040000 -l 0x00400000
- fis create ramdisk.gz

- load -v -r -b 0x01008000 -m ymodem zImage
- fis unlock -f 0xF0040000 -l 0x00200000
- fis create zImage

After the commands I reset the system and hit the control-C buttons.

Now the fis list look like this
RedBoot> fis list
Name FLASH addr Mem addr Length Entry point
RedBoot 0xF0000000 0xF0000000 0x00040000 0x00000000
RedBoot config 0xF1FC0000 0xF1FC0000 0x00001000 0x00000000
FIS directory 0xF1FE0000 0xF1FE0000 0x00020000 0x00000000
ramdisk.gz 0xF0040000 0x01800000 0x00440000 0x01800000
zImage 0xF0480000 0x01008000 0x00160000 0x01008000

To install the Debian OS I typed the following lines
- fis load ramdisk.gz
- fis load zImage
- exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200 rw root=/dev/ram mem=256M@0xa0000000" -r 0x01800000

Now the installation begins, after a while I get the following error message

+No network interfaces found

EM-7210 ver.T04 2005-12-12 (For ver.AA)

== Executing boot script in 5.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort

RedBoot> fis load ramdisk.gz

RedBoot> fis load zImage

RedBoot> exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200 rw root=/dev/ram mem=256M@0xa0000000" -r 0x01800000 -w 5

Using base address 0x01008000 and length 0x0015ada0

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu

[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-2-iop32x (Debian 3.2.18-1) (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-5) ) #1 Tue May 22 00:32:24 UTC 2012

[ 0.000000] CPU: XScale-80219 [69052e20] revision 0 (ARMv5TE), cr=0000397f

[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache

[ 0.000000] Machine: Lanner EM7210

[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback

[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 65024

[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rw root=/dev/ram mem=256M@0xa0000000

[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Memory: 256MB = 256MB total

[ 0.000000] Memory: 251600k/251600k available, 10544k reserved, 0K highmem

[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:

[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)

[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)

[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xd0800000 - 0xfe000000 ( 728 MB)

[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB)

[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)

[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0377f18 (3520 kB)

[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc0378000 - 0xc0397000 ( 124 kB)

[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc0398000 - 0xc03c81a0 ( 193 kB)

[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc03c81c4 - 0xc040eb24 ( 283 kB)

[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:32

[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 21474ms

[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30

[ 0.000409] Calibrating delay loop... 398.13 BogoMIPS (lpj=1990656)

[ 0.050061] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301

[ 0.050382] Security Framework initialized

[ 0.050556] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

[ 0.051539] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct

[ 0.051597] Initializing cgroup subsys memory

[ 0.051664] Initializing cgroup subsys devices

[ 0.051687] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer

[ 0.051708] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls

[ 0.051730] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio

[ 0.051786] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event

[ 0.051969] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok

[ 0.052759] hw perfevents: enabled with xscale1 PMU driver, 3 counters available

[ 0.056226] devtmpfs: initialized

[ 0.059305] print_constraints: dummy:

[ 0.059934] NET: Registered protocol family 16

[ 0.065550] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled

[ 0.067915] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x80000000-0x8001ffff]

[ 0.067973] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x80000000-0x8001ffff] (PCI address [0x80000000-0x8001ffff])

[ 0.068015] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x80020000-0x8003ffff]

[ 0.068055] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 1: set to [mem 0x80020000-0x8003ffff] (PCI address [0x80020000-0x8003ffff])

[ 0.068098] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x80040000-0x8005ffff pref]

[ 0.068134] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x80060000-0x8007ffff]

[ 0.068175] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x80060000-0x8007ffff] (PCI address [0x80060000-0x8007ffff])

[ 0.068216] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x80080000-0x8009ffff]

[ 0.068256] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 1: set to [mem 0x80080000-0x8009ffff] (PCI address [0x80080000-0x8009ffff])

[ 0.068299] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x800a0000-0x800bffff pref]

[ 0.068337] pci 0000:00:03.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x800c0000-0x800c0fff 64bit]

[ 0.068381] pci 0000:00:03.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x800c0000-0x800c0fff 64bit] (PCI address [0x800c0000-0x800c0fff])

[ 0.068423] pci 0000:00:05.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x800c1000-0x800c1fff]

[ 0.068464] pci 0000:00:05.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x800c1000-0x800c1fff] (PCI address [0x800c1000-0x800c1fff])

[ 0.068505] pci 0000:00:05.1: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x800c2000-0x800c2fff]

[ 0.068545] pci 0000:00:05.1: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x800c2000-0x800c2fff] (PCI address [0x800c2000-0x800c2fff])

[ 0.068587] pci 0000:00:05.2: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x800c3000-0x800c30ff]

[ 0.068627] pci 0000:00:05.2: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x800c3000-0x800c30ff] (PCI address [0x800c3000-0x800c30ff])

[ 0.068668] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 2: assigned [io 0x90000000-0x9000003f]

[ 0.068708] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 2: set to [io 0x90000000-0x9000003f] (PCI address [0x90000000-0x9000003f])

[ 0.068749] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 2: assigned [io 0x90000040-0x9000007f]

[ 0.068789] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 2: set to [io 0x90000040-0x9000007f] (PCI address [0x90000040-0x9000007f])

[ 0.074657] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

[ 0.076266] vgaarb: loaded

[ 0.077784] Switching to clocksource iop_timer1

[ 0.136565] NET: Registered protocol family 2

[ 0.137107] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

[ 0.139136] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

[ 0.139686] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

[ 0.139967] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)

[ 0.139991] TCP reno registered

[ 0.140033] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.140096] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.140767] NET: Registered protocol family 1

[ 0.142014] Unpacking initramfs...

[ 1.433579] Initramfs unpacking failed: read error

[ 1.467388] Freeing initrd memory: 4096K

[ 1.467420] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)

[ 1.469341] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)

[ 1.469475] type=2000 audit(1.460:1): initialized

[ 1.484779] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2

[ 1.485051] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 1.485437] msgmni has been set to 499

[ 1.487401] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)

[ 1.487948] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)

[ 1.487997] io scheduler noop registered

[ 1.488018] io scheduler deadline registered

[ 1.488118] io scheduler cfq registered (default)

[ 1.508096] iop-adma iop-adma.0: Intel(R) IOP: ( cpy intr )

[ 1.528070] iop-adma iop-adma.1: Intel(R) IOP: ( cpy intr )

[ 1.529417] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled

[ 1.551939] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfe800000 (irq = 28) is a 16550A

[ 2.128885] console [ttyS0] enabled

[ 2.135109] physmap platform flash device: 02000000 at f0000000

[ 2.141980] physmap-flash.0: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank. Manufacturer ID 0x000089 Chip ID 0x00891c

[ 2.152423] Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A

[ 2.157607] Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A

[ 2.162815] Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A

[ 2.168023] Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A

[ 2.173234] Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A

[ 2.178469] Using buffer write method

[ 2.182144] Using auto-unlock on power-up/resume

[ 2.186780] cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled

[ 2.192681] Searching for RedBoot partition table in physmap-flash.0 at offset 0x1fe0000

[ 2.327232] 5 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device physmap-flash.0

[ 2.333736] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "physmap-flash.0":

[ 2.339375] 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "RedBoot"

[ 2.347736] 0x000000040000-0x000000480000 : "ramdisk.gz"

[ 2.356682] 0x000000480000-0x0000005e0000 : "zImage"

[ 2.365242] 0x000001fc0000-0x000001fc1000 : "RedBoot config"

[ 2.371058] mtd: partition "RedBoot config" doesn't end on an erase block -- force read-only

[ 2.382951] 0x000001fe0000-0x000002000000 : "FIS directory"

[ 2.393584] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

[ 2.399486] i2c /dev entries driver

[ 2.408563] rtc-rs5c372 0-0032: rs5c372a found, 24hr, driver version 0.6

[ 2.421820] rtc-rs5c372 0-0032: rtc core: registered rtc-rs5c372 as rtc0

[ 2.434412] TCP cubic registered

[ 2.437683] NET: Registered protocol family 17

[ 2.442343] Registering the dns_resolver key type

[ 2.447178] XScale DSP coprocessor detected.

[ 2.453160] registered taskstats version 1

[ 2.460227] rtc-rs5c372 0-0032: setting system clock to 2112-09-25 19:00:08 UTC (209305912)

[ 2.468840] Initializing network drop monitor service

[ 2.475118] List of all partitions:

[ 2.478788] 1f00 256 mtdblock0 (driver?)

[ 2.483889] 1f01 4352 mtdblock1 (driver?)

[ 2.489010] 1f02 1408 mtdblock2 (driver?)

[ 2.494104] 1f03 4 mtdblock3 (driver?)

[ 2.499216] 1f04 128 mtdblock4 (driver?)

[ 2.504301] No filesystem could mount root, tried:

[ 2.509244] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

[ 2.517604] [<c001374c>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [<c02707cc>] (panic+0x50/0x194)

[ 2.525871] [<c02707cc>] (panic+0x50/0x194) from [<c0378be8>] (mount_block_root+0x234/0x284)

[ 2.534382] [<c0378be8>] (mount_block_root+0x234/0x284) from [<c0378dc0>] (prepare_namespace+0x124/0x184)

[ 2.544015] [<c0378dc0>] (prepare_namespace+0x124/0x184) from [<c0378880>] (kernel_init+0x100/0x130)

[ 2.553228] [<c0378880>] (kernel_init+0x100/0x130) from [<c000edf8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

I think the Debian installation crashes when mounting the HDDs. The HDDs are
formatted, and therefore I do not know what the root directory must be
installed (also no HDD connection and SSH possible).

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Kind regards,
Henk Smit