updated uboot, now solid green on usb stick load but no ip

[checktravis]

finally got serial working!

this is the output, i can't seem to interact with it at all. tried ctrl+a :

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'n: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: egiga0
88E11Uÿÿû¾?ß[ÍE@’€@AND: 256 MiB
IN 0
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 2SB device 0:
Device 0: Vendor: Rev: 0.00 Prod: MI* File not found /boot/zImage **
2* File not found /boot/dtbs/kirkwood-goflexhome.dtb **
*K

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
L -1, 2048 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
Memory: 123236k/123236k available, 7836k reserved, 0K highmem
Virtual kernel memory layout:
vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
DMA : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 ( 2 MB)
vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xfe800000 ( 864 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000 ( 128 MB)
modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
.init : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0031000 ( 164 kB)
.text : 0xc0031000 - 0xc057e9b4 (5431 kB)
.data : 0xc0580000 - 0xc05b88a0 ( 227 kB)
SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
NR_IRQS:114
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=5963776)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A1, TCLK=200000000.
Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
vgaarb: loaded
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
UDP hash ntries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
aufs 2.1-37
msgmni has been set to 240
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
sata_mv sata_mv.0: version 1.28
sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 1
scsi0 : sata_mv
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x98, Chip ID: 0xda (Toshiba )
Scanning device for bad blocks
2rion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
rtc-mv rtc-mv: rtc core: registered rtc-mv as rtc0
i2c /dev entries driver
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fr
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: USB HID core driver
oprofile: hardware counters not available
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
Registering the dns_resolver key type
registered taskstats version 1
rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2016-04-23 20:01:55 UTC (1461441715)
Waiting for root device PARTUUID=deae8587-01...
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access MIMOBOT 0.00 PQvable disk
')

[moonman]

What software are you using to capture serial output? Putty, minicom screen?

[checktravis]

I've tried a few. Here is what I have access to and have tried:

Macbook pro, using terminal:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
$ ls /dev/cu.*
dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem /dev/cu.LGHBS900-CSRGAIA /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART
$ screen /dev/cu.SLAP_USBtoUART 115200
[screen is terminating]
')

screen flashed the message "cannot exec..." something about no such file or directory

i was able to get coolterm to work on the mac, here is what it shows with the sata drive plugged in, no usb stick:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2016.03-2 (Mar 15 2016 - 23:10:07 -0600) Arch Linux ARM
Seagate GoFlex Home

SoC: Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
DRAM: 128 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: egiga0
88E1116 Initialized on egiga0
IDE: Bus 0: .......OK Bus 1: not available
Device 0: Model: ST2000DL003-9VT166 Firm: CC98 Ser#: 5YD8NZNT
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 1907729.0 MB = 1863.0 GB (3907029168 x 512)
Using egiga0 device

ARP Retry count exceeded; starting again
ping failed; host 10.10.10.5 is not alive
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 0
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found

Reset IDE: Bus 0: OK Bus 1: not available
Device 0: not available

USB device 0: unknown device

IDE device 0: not available
Trying to boot from NAND ...
ubi0: attaching mtd1
UBI init error 22
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi0:rootfs' errno=-19!
ubifsmount - mount UBIFS volume

Usage:
ubifsmount <volume-name>
- mount 'volume-name' volume
GoFlexHome>
')

I turned on local echo so I can see what I type, but it doesn't respond. The green light is flashing, and the amber light in the back that shows ethernet activity is "jittery" (for lack of a better term) so it looks like it is doing something, but nothing else shows in coolterm


macbook pro, virtualbox:

I have an ubuntu 15.10 image that i am able to mount the usb adapter and screen command works there, but again no reactions to anything i type. I tried with the usb recovery stick, I think that is the output in my last post. I can try again to be sure if you think that would be helpful, but coolterm on the mac directly seems to be the most stable option i have tried

is there something simple i am missing here? do I have to do something to get the thing to "hear" my commands?

also, just to expose all my options, I also have a surface pro 3 that i installed dual boot on and can load ubuntu, but the kernel doesn't support my (surface 4) type cover or the touch screen so it's very limiting without a good mouse or keyboard.

[checktravis]

i think i am officially stuck. I don't know why I can't send commands, so I am trying to at least use the read out to do what i can with a usb stick. i saw this message:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
ERROR: device 'PARTUUID=c103c893-01' not found. Skipping fsck.
ERROR: Unable to find root device 'PARTUUID=c103c893-01'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#
')

so, i figured out how to change the device id with fdisk (expert mode 'x' and hex coverted id '0xc103c893' and wrote the partition change but it didn't seem to make a difference:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
000 ( 880 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000 ( 128 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0841548 (8422 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc0842000 - 0xc088c000 ( 296 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc088c000 - 0xc091485c ( 547 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc091485c - 0xc09c9d58 ( 726 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] .Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 32.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:114
[ 0.000013] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns
[ 10.548672] clocksource: orion_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns
[ 10.548860] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 10.548890] Calibrating delay loop... 1191.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=5955584)
[ 10.638763] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 10.638855] Security Framework initialized
[ 10.638928] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 10.638949] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 10.639683] Initializing cgroup subsys io
[ 10.639717] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 10.639769] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 10.639795] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 10.639817] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 10.639836] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[ 10.639860] Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio
[ 10.639941] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 10.640406] Setting up static identity map for 0x81e0 - 0x8238
[ 10.642354] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 10.644765] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 10.645171] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 10.645939] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 10.646436] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 10.668763] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 10.698761] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 10.698945] Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A1, TCLK=200000000.
[ 10.698972] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[ 10.699013] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[ 10.740224] vgaarb: loaded
[ 10.740542] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 10.741030] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 10.741107] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 10.741168] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 10.741328] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 10.741338] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[ 10.741371] PTP clock support registered
[ 10.742439] clocksource: Switched to clocksource orion_clocksource
[ 10.781313] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 10.794496] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 10.795295] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 10.795325] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 10.795346] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 10.795422] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 10.795445] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 10.795641] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 10.795973] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 10.795985] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 10.795992] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 10.795999] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 10.796298] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 11.004981] Freeing initrd memory: 2620K (c1100000 - c138f000)
[ 11.006806] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 11.019619] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[ 11.019892] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 11.021944] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[ 11.023072] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 11.023140] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 11.023150] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 11.023247] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 11.024573] fuse init (API version 7.23)
[ 11.026808] aufs 4.4-20160321
[ 11.032017] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 250)
[ 11.032041] io scheduler noop registered
[ 11.032056] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 11.032329] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 11.032654] io scheduler bfq registered (default)
[ 11.032663] BFQ I/O-scheduler: v7r11
[ 11.032869] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 11.073762] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy )
[ 11.074013] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 11.113708] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy )
[ 11.119333] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 11.120440] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 11.140557] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A
[ 11.705329] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 11.724892] brd: module loaded
[ 11.735686] loop: module loaded
[ 11.739200] sata_mv sata_mv.0: cannot get optional clkdev
[ 11.744808] sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 1
[ 11.751069] scsi host0: sata_mv
[ 11.754632] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
[ 11.759464] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x98, Chip ID: 0xda
[ 11.765994] nand: Toshiba NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit
[ 11.770635] nand: 256 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[ 11.778268] Scanning device for bad blocks
[ 12.000386] 2 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand
[ 12.006701] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[ 12.011869] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
[ 12.017378] 0x000000100000-0x000010000000 : "rootfs"
[ 12.035803] libphy: orion_mdio_bus: probed
[ 12.040035] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[ 12.112470] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[ 13.123523] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0 eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:10:75:2d:38:37
[ 13.132399] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 13.138992] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 13.143544] ehci-orion: EHCI orion driver
[ 13.147649] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: EHCI Host Controller
[ 13.153124] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 13.160876] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
[ 13.182469] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 13.189415] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 13.193275] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 13.197917] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 13.203436] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 13.209522] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-alauda
[ 13.215574] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-cypress
[ 13.221659] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
[ 13.227769] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums_eneub6250
[ 13.234051] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
[ 13.240134] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-isd200
[ 13.246157] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
[ 13.252324] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-karma
[ 13.258259] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-onetouch
[ 13.264472] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-realtek
[ 13.270560] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
[ 13.276582] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
[ 13.282596] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-usbat
[ 13.288909] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 13.295065] rtc-mv rtc-mv: rtc core: registered rtc-mv as rtc0
[ 13.301030] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 13.305195] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 13.311403] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 13.315889] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 13.322270] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 13.328469] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[ 13.334344] gre: GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
[ 13.339295] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 13.343911] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 13.349256] registered taskstats version 1
[ 13.374339] Key type encrypted registered
[ 13.378983] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 13.382866] netconsole: network logging started
[ 13.387529] rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2016-04-24 14:10:07 UTC (1461507007)
[ 13.397710] Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K (c0842000 - c088c000)
:: running early hook [udev]
[ 13.455995] random: systemd-tmpfile urandom read with 5 bits of entropy available
starting version 229
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
[ 13.512543] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 13.706466] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 13.722872] scsi host1: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-partuuid/c103c893-01 ...
[ 14.723856] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access MIMOBOT 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 14.737338] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15192064 512-byte logical blocks: (7.78 GB/7.24 GiB)
[ 14.745494] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 14.763321] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 14.776268] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 14.795358] sda: sda1
[ 14.821812] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
ERROR: device 'PARTUUID=c103c893-01' not found. Skipping fsck.
ERROR: Unable to find root device 'PARTUUID=c103c893-01'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#
')

UPDATE
rootfs prompt was responding to my commands, i was able to mount the usb drive to /mnt so I thought i would plug in the SATA and start reinstalling arch but after I plugged in the SATA, it started mounting it and the console stopped responding to anything I typed.

[checktravis]

ok, played around a bit more and was able to exit out of the rootfs in the serial interface, then it continued booting and got an ipaddress! i am now SSH'ed in to alarm/root

[moonman]

So it wasn't mac address then. Just to be sure post the output of fw_printenv and dmesg

[checktravis]

i wasn't able to get fw_printenv to work, but I might have still been in rootfs.

i was still getting an error about zImage, then I realized I must have messed up rootfs by trying to load debian at some point.

So, I tried http://projects.doozan.com/uboot/ but that didn't work because it didn't recognize the exisitng boot (understandably so)

I eventually found this post viewtopic.php?p=10814 and restored the factory boot image uboot-mtd0-orig-goflexhome.kwb

What is interesting, after all these years and so many wipes and resets, it still had my old seagate device name I gave it when i first set the thing up. I had no idea what my username and password used to be, so I then flashed the factory usb recovery image to reset that. EVEN THEN, it still had my pk code (from the bottom of the device) stored in it somewhere. i guess there is some persistent memory somewhere in the thing.

i think i am good now to reinstall arch and recovery. thanks for all your help, i'll buy you a pint next time i am in calgary

[moonman]

Ouruboot has environment at a different lcationon the nand, that's why you have all your info stil there. Where abouts are you?

[checktravis]

covington, ky -close to cincinnati. closest i've been to calgary is vancouver and it's been too long, need to get back out there.

i have another question but i will start a new thread