ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once!
Re: ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once!
by CharlesB » Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:21 am
Very good info about the uboot not being touched. I'll dig up a smaller drive (I wondered about the 4k sector size, but I don't have a spare drive at hand, and since I heard the device works w/ 3GB drives, I figured it was probably okay), and if that doesn't work, I'll get a debug terminal set up. I'll be back sometime in the next week.
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Re: ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once!
by CharlesB » Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:29 pm
Oops, my finger went back in time 20 years.
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Re: ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once! [solved]
by CharlesB » Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:00 am
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 't')ry a smaller disk (in the event the 4K sectors are messing with it)
That was it! I fed it a 320GB drive, and it happily booted.*
*There's absolutely no network traffic coming from it (Wireshark was blank for half an hour) so either it's not booting successfully or it's not configured to use DHCP by default. If I don't find any answers to that one in existing posts, I'll create a new topic.
Just trying to sort out the unsolved "one-boot wonder" mystery in my mind...
Since it booted the 1st time from the USB key, but never again, I assume that when the installer changed the bootloader to boot from the hard drive, it made in unable to boot from other sources. It would be reasonable to assume that it changed the *order* of devices, and whereas the USB was first, the hard drive is now checked first, and the drive is a kiss of death, previously avoided because it found something to boot in the USB slot. However, it also doesn't boot from USB with *no* drive in there, so maybe having no drive is also the kiss of death... :-/ I could clear this new drive and then see if I can boot from USB again with it inserted, but...no, no time to be playing now. I'm in the middle of cleaning up a huge mess at work (created by someone else), have had almost no sleep the last two nights, and am heading into my 4th day. Maybe I'll do the "extra credit" investigations later...
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Re: ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once!
by WarheadsSE » Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:33 pm
Get back to me when you are ready, it's never a brick 
Might just be something amiss. A serial console (Rs232/TTL 3.3v) always solves 
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Re: ZyXEL NSA320 booted from USB...once!
by CharlesB » Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:47 am
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'A') serial console (Rs232/TTL 3.3v) always solves
Excellent suggestion. At the same time I went looking for a smaller drive, I went ahead and ordered a Bus Pirate. (I had a couple of USB-RS232 converter cables for programming ham radios, but both of them were 5V output, and since I already didn't know what I was doing, I didn't want to introduce yet another variable by hacking a simple voltage divider for it. I decided that instead of buying another cheap cable, I might as well get something that would be more generally useful. The BP is a great device!)
I finally stole a few minutes tonight to figure out the correct hook-up & operation, and was rewarded with a terminal!
Just for reference, here's what happens when I put the 3TB drive in:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Reset IDE:
Marvell Serial ATA Adapter
Integrated Sata device found
[0 0 0]: Enable DMA mode (6)
Device 0 @ 0 0:
Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 Firm: CC9C Ser#: W1F050R8
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 764436.4 MB = 746.5 GB (1565565872 x 512)
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Bad ext2 partition or disk - ide 0:1 **
## Booting image at 02000000 ...
Bad Magic Number
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It correctly ID's the type, but assumes that it has 512-byte sectors instead of 4k, which doesn't work out so well for it...
I was already used to the idea that -- at least for now -- I'll need to have a smaller drive as the primary, and might be able to add the 3TB as the secondary, so I'll go with that.
It boots fine with the 320GB drive. Just for reference, here's the complete boot-up session log:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
__ __ _ _
| \/ | __ _ _ ____ _____| | |
| |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
| | | | (_| | | \ V / __/ | |
|_| |_|\__,_|_| \_/ \___|_|_|
_ _ ____ _
| | | | | __ ) ___ ___ | |_
| | | |___| _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_
\___/ |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|
** MARVELL BOARD: RD-88F6281A LE
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 23 2011 - 16:09:39) Marvell version: 3.4.19
U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0 BSS: -> 006CFEE0
Soc: 88F6281 A1 (DDR2)
CPU running @ 1200Mhz L2 running @ 400Mhz
SysClock = 400Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz
DRAM CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6
DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000 size 256MB
DRAM CS[1] base 0x10000000 size 256MB
DRAM Total size 512MB 16bit width
Addresses 10M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage.
Mem malloc Initialization (10M - 7M): Done
NAND:128 MB
Flash: 0 kB
CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)
//--- stateButtonBit = 3, recovery ---//
Kernel address is 0xc80000.
Streaming disabled
Write allocate disabled
Module 0 is RGMII
Module 1 is TDM
USB 0: host mode
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.
Net: egiga0, egiga1 [PRIME]
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 2 1 0
Reset IDE:
Marvell Serial ATA Adapter
Integrated Sata device found
[0 0 0]: Enable DMA mode (5)
Device 0 @ 0 0:
Model: WDC WD3200JD-22KLB0 Firm: 08.05J08 Ser#: WD-WCAMR2238476
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 305245.3 MB = 298.0 GB (625142448 x 512)
2856016 bytes read
## Booting image at 02000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.10-13-ARCH
Created: 2012-08-20 15:46:58 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2855952 Bytes = 2.7 MB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.1.10-13-ARCH (nobody@fermium) (gcc version 4.7.1 20120721 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Mon Aug 20 15:46:18 UTC 2012
[ 0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: ZyXEL NSA320 2-Bay Power Media Server
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 131072
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c058c780, node_mem_map c065d000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1024 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 130048 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x100000(uboot),0x80000(uboot_env),0x80000(key_store),0x80000(info),0xA00000(etc),0xA00000(kernel_1),0x2FC0000(rootfs1),0xA00000(kernel_2),0x2FC0000(rootfs2) root=/dev/sda2 ro rootwait loglevel=8
[ 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] allocated 2097152 bytes of page_cgroup
[ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
[ 0.000000] Memory: 512MB = 512MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 511192k/511192k available, 13096k 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] DMA : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 ( 2 MB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xfe800000 ( 480 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 ( 512 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0529b6c (5255 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc052a000 - 0xc0555000 ( 172 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc0556000 - 0xc058ef70 ( 228 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc058ef94 - 0xc065cb0c ( 823 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:114
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 21474ms
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 13.880585] Calibrating delay loop... 1196.85 BogoMIPS (lpj=5984256)
[ 13.970523] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 13.970638] Security Framework initialized
[ 13.970659] AppArmor: AppArmor disabled by boot time parameter
[ 13.970725] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 13.971084] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 13.971108] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 13.971141] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 13.971153] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 13.971162] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 13.971171] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 13.971192] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[ 13.971280] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 13.972426] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 13.974175] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 13.974760] Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A1, TCLK=200000000.
[ 13.974773] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[ 13.974807] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[ 13.975319] initial MPP regs: 21111111 01003311 33331100 33003333 00000533 20202000 00000000
[ 13.975355] final MPP regs: 01111111 00003311 00001100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 13.980465] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 13.980845] vgaarb: loaded
[ 13.981107] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 13.981258] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 13.981470] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 13.981557] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 13.981658] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 13.982195] Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
[ 13.990519] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 13.990720] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 14.000414] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 14.000635] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 14.001335] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 14.001688] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 14.001866] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 14.001875] TCP reno registered
[ 14.001886] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 14.001908] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 14.002135] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 14.002169] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 14.002775] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 14.002808] type=2000 audit(0.120:1): initialized
[ 14.088377] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 14.088639] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 14.090813] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 14.092109] aufs 3.1-20111107
[ 14.092130] msgmni has been set to 998
[ 14.093473] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[ 14.093488] io scheduler noop registered
[ 14.093496] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 14.093594] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 14.093655] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 14.093685] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 14.132271] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[ 14.172278] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[ 14.212266] mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[ 14.252265] mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[ 14.257273] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 14.277929] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
[ 14.819743] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 14.829233] brd: module loaded
[ 14.835263] loop: module loaded
[ 14.838698] sata_mv sata_mv.0: version 1.28
[ 14.843044] sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 2
[ 14.849234] scsi0 : sata_mv
[ 14.852460] scsi1 : sata_mv
[ 14.855474] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
[ 14.859590] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
[ 14.864602] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xf1 (Samsung NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
[ 14.873464] Scanning device for bad blocks
[ 14.907604] Bad eraseblock 286 at 0x0000023c0000
[ 14.921613] Bad eraseblock 376 at 0x000002f00000
[ 14.944539] Bad eraseblock 551 at 0x0000044e0000
[ 14.969122] Bad eraseblock 742 at 0x000005cc0000
[ 15.001348] Bad eraseblock 1006 at 0x000007dc0000
[ 15.007887] Creating 9 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[ 15.013073] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "uboot"
[ 15.018913] 0x000000100000-0x000000180000 : "uboot_env"
[ 15.024974] 0x000000180000-0x000000200000 : "key_store"
[ 15.030975] 0x000000200000-0x000000280000 : "info"
[ 15.036596] 0x000000280000-0x000000c80000 : "etc"
[ 15.042123] 0x000000c80000-0x000001680000 : "kernel_1"
[ 15.048133] 0x000001680000-0x000004640000 : "rootfs1"
[ 15.054112] 0x000004640000-0x000005040000 : "kernel_2"
[ 15.060120] 0x000005040000-0x000008000000 : "rootfs2"
[ 15.066898] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[ 15.073847] mv643xx_eth smi: probed
[ 15.079416] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0: eth0: port 0 with MAC address b0:b2:dc:ed:59:3d
[ 15.088378] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 15.095009] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
[ 15.100314] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 15.132246] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
[ 15.152232] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 15.158704] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 15.162520] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 15.166928] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 15.171903] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 15.177962] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 15.182732] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 15.188818] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 15.194669] rtc-mv rtc-mv: rtc core: registered rtc-mv as rtc0
[ 15.200658] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 15.206907] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 15.211347] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 15.217181] Registered led device: nsa320:green:hdd2
[ 15.222336] Registered led device: nsa320:red:hdd2
[ 15.227229] Registered led device: nsa320:green:usb
[ 15.232207] Registered led device: nsa320:green:sys
[ 15.237206] Registered led device: nsa320:orange:sys
[ 15.242310] Registered led device: nsa320:green:copy
[ 15.247381] Registered led device: nsa320:red:copy
[ 15.252297] Registered led device: nsa320:green:hdd1
[ 15.257370] Registered led device: nsa320:red:hdd1
[ 15.262480] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[ 15.268951] GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
[ 15.273442] TCP cubic registered
[ 15.276868] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 15.281411] lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
[ 15.287119] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 15.292386] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[ 15.297145] Gating clock of unused units
[ 15.301081] before: 0x00dfc3dd
[ 15.304161] after: 0x00c7c1c9
[ 15.307732] registered taskstats version 1
[ 15.312490] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 15.316166] netconsole: network logging started
[ 15.321283] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0
[ 15.328293] rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2084-11-07 06:45:55 UTC (3624417955)
[ 15.382255] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl F300)
[ 15.422279] ata1.00: ATA-6: WDC WD3200JD-22KLB0, 08.05J08, max UDMA/100
[ 15.428940] ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48
[ 15.452455] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 15.472531] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD3200JD-22K 08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 15.481178] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[ 15.489018] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 15.494399] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 15.501400] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 15.506614] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 15.511796] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 15.529624] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 15.533576] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 15.654321] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 15.658447] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 15.852247] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[ 15.878620] EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 15.902471] EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 16.096475] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 16.104219] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:2.
[ 16.141180] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 16.144687] Freeing init memory: 172K
INIT: version 2.88 booting
> Arch Linux ARM
> http://archlinuxarm.org/
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:: Adjusting system time and setting kernel time zone [BUSY] hwclock: settimeofday() failed: Invalid argument
Unable to set system clock.
[FAIL]
:: Starting udev daemon [BUSY] systemd-udevd[93]: starting version 188
[1m[DONE]
:: Triggering udev uevents [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Loading user-specified modules [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Waiting for udev uevents to be processed [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Configuring virtual consoles [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Bringing up loopback interface [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Checking filesystems [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Remounting root and API filesystems [BUSY] [ 18.503364] EXT4-fs (sda2): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[ 18.511709] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
[DONE]
:: Mounting local filesystems [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Activating swap [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Configuring time zone [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Initializing random seed [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Removing leftover files [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Setting hostname: alarm [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Saving dmesg log [BUSY] [DONE]
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
:: Starting Syslog-NG [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Starting network [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Mounting network filesystems [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Starting crond daemon [BUSY] [DONE]
:: Starting Secure Shell Daemon [BUSY] [ 51.316931] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 51.340794] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[DONE]
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"link is not ready" meaning it's not able to establish a physical-layer connection? Makes sense, since I can see absolutely no Ethernet traffic coming from it. Looking at the Ethernet jack, the top light is on and flashes, but the bottom one isn't (but I don't know the meaning of that light).
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