Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

[Iain McFarlane <iain@mcfarlanes.me>]

Summary of progress:

I ended up connecting using a serial cable which was invaluable as my
initrd was not working (see below)

I tried going backwards:
4.2.0 - SATA errors when flashing initrd
4.1.0 - SATA errors when flashing initrd
4.0.0 - SATA errors when flashing initrd
3.16 - No SATA errors when updating initrd - the kernel is flashed using
dtb but how do I tell if it is used?

it didn't help that somewhere along the line udev/initramfs/systemd is
broken so that I had to remove all the UUID values from my fstab and go
back to device names.


On 20/10/15 22:40, Iain McFarlane wrote:
> Posting from archive as previously not subscribed.
>
> I have a qnap ts-219p (kirkwood) in pieces at the moment as it is
> failing to boot the 4.2 kernel from a brand new install of stretch.
>
> I am also seeing problems with the sata controller interacting with the
> mtdblock driver
>
> I am going to see if rolling back a version or 2 of the kernel will work
> tomorrow and will feedback to the list.
>
> Regards
>
> Iain
>