Couldn't ssh in after update

[wobble]

Fwiw, I ran into the same issue as ava1ar on my pogoplug e02 (which I think might be different from what started this thread). That is, it doesn't with initramfs and does boot when I delete it. And by "boot" I really mean the network doesn't come up - it might still technically "boot".

To investigate this I made a fresh install based on "ArchLinuxARM-2015.11-kirkwood" (If the filedate is correct it should be from Nov 3). This install stopped booting after the update to kernel 4.3 which seems to be the one that introduced the default creation of an initramfs.

Now, if I base the install on the current "ArchLinuxARM-2015.12-kirkwood" the system boots even though it has an initramfs! What puzzles me is that a complete diff of the two filesystems shows no "significant" (famous last words...) differences.

One difference that might be significant is that the system that boots even with initramfs is on the only partition on the usb stick that spans the whole device, while the system that doesn't boot with the initramfs has two partitions (p1 system, p2 swap). I tried deleting the 2nd partition but it still wouldn't boot, although I'm not sure I recreated the initramfs after that. Would that make any difference?

Any pointers as what to try next? I wasn't really succesful setting up netconsole the last time I tried, so I haven't done this yet, but I'll try that next.

[moonman]

Netconsole setup is explained in the U-Boot sticky. Check the filesystem with fsck, see it bootz after.

[wobble]

Thanks for the pointer to the detailed docs in the u-boot post. That was very helpful!(Until now I didn't realize that I have to start both nc jobs simultaneously, so I never got to see the kernel output.)

Netconsole works now and so I was able to get logs from both a boot without initramfs (successful) and with initramfs (not successful).

First boot without initramfs (successful):

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2015.10-1 (Nov 28 2015 - 01:55:29 -0700) Arch Linux ARM
Pogo E02
gcc (GCC) 5.2.0
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.25.1
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3  2  1  0
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found

USB device 0:
Device 0: Vendor: SanDisk Rev: 1.26 Prod: Cruzer Fit
Type: Removable Hard Disk
Capacity: 15267.0 MB = 14.9 GB (31266816 x 512)
... is now current device
usb found on device 0
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt ...
** File not found /boot/zImage **
4516016 bytes read in 312 ms (13.8 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/kirkwood-pogo_e02.dtb ...
** File not found /boot/dtbs/kirkwood-pogo_e02.dtb **
** File not found /boot/initramfs-linux.img **
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00810000 ...
Image Name: Linux-4.3.0-1-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 4515952 Bytes = 4.3 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK

[ 12.795448] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 12.799146] netconsole: network logging started
[ 12.803852] hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 12.811684] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 12.832328] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 12.840188] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 8:1.
[ 12.850579] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 12.854577] Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K (c0830000 - c087a000)
[ 13.333333] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 13.352371] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 13.374290] random: systemd urandom read with 47 bits of entropy available
[ 13.399217] systemd[1]: systemd 228 running in system mode. (+PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN)
[ 13.417830] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm.
[ 13.444427] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <pogo>.
[ 14.316358] systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.
[ 14.345617] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice.
[ 14.374071] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[ 14.404043] systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice.
[ 14.423176] systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[ 14.454096] systemd[1]: Created slice system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
[ 14.483134] systemd[1]: Reached target Slices.
[ 14.503412] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 14.533302] systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 14.563313] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 14.593371] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 14.623119] systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.
[ 14.671587] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket (/dev/log).
[ 14.693436] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
[ 14.717064] systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
[ 14.747764] systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System...
[ 14.791198] systemd[1]: Mounting Temporary Directory...
[ 14.823443] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
[ 14.857761] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
[ 14.887686] systemd[1]: Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
[ 14.923659] systemd[1]: Listening on Network Service Netlink Socket.
[ 14.953396] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems.
[ 15.012659] systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
[ 15.052183] systemd[1]: Starting Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel...
[ 15.117088] systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 15.151147] systemd[1]: Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[ 15.183998] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.
[ 15.197258] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
[ 15.204470] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 15.310115] systemd[1]: Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
[ 15.333297] systemd[1]: Mounted Debug File System.
[ 15.353291] systemd[1]: Mounted Temporary Directory.
[ 15.385011] systemd[1]: Started Setup Virtual Console.
[ 15.416578] systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
[ 15.445214] systemd[1]: Started Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel.
[ 15.485012] systemd[1]: Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
[ 15.575055] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
[ 16.502236] systemd-journald[118]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[ 16.553610] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[ 17.265853] MV-CESA:Could not register sha1 driver
[ 17.270751] MV-CESA:Could not register hmac-sha1 driver
[ 19.093813] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (3905 buckets, 15620 max)
')

Then I created the initramfs

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
> mkinitcpio -p linux-kirkwood
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-kirkwood.preset: 'default'
-> -k 4.3.0-1-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 4.3.0-1-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
')

After that, I shut down, fscked the boot partition (to make sure it is clean in case the shutdown didn't properly unmount it - but it seems it does) and tried to boot:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2015.10-1 (Nov 28 2015 - 01:55:29 -0700) Arch Linux ARM
Pogo E02
gcc (GCC) 5.2.0
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.25.1
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3  2  1  0
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found

USB device 0:
Device 0: Vendor: SanDisk Rev: 1.26 Prod: Cruzer Fit
Type: Removable Hard Disk
Capacity: 15267.0 MB = 14.9 GB (31266816 x 512)
... is now current device
usb found on device 0
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt ...
** File not found /boot/zImage **
4516016 bytes read in 313 ms (13.8 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/kirkwood-pogo_e02.dtb ...
** File not found /boot/dtbs/kirkwood-pogo_e02.dtb **
2623741 bytes read in 277 ms (9 MiB/s)
Booting uImage with initrd
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00810000 ...
Image Name: Linux-4.3.0-1-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 4515952 Bytes = 4.3 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK

[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.3.0-1-ARCH (builduser@leming) (gcc version 5.2.0 (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Fri Nov 27 23:46:17 MST 2015
[ 0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0005397f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: Pogoplug E02
[ 0.000000] debug: ignoring loglevel setting.
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 65536
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c08f6984, node_mem_map cfdba000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 576 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 65536 pages, LIFO batch:15
[ 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: 64960
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),-(rootfs) root=PARTUUID=00000000-01 rw rootwait ignore_loglevel netconsole=6665@10.10.10.3/eth0,6666@10.10.10.4/
[ 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: 247092K/262144K available (6495K kernel code, 538K rwdata, 1852K rodata, 296K init, 725K bss, 15052K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000 (3072 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xd0800000 - 0xff000000 ( 744 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc082f068 (8349 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc0830000 - 0xc087a000 ( 296 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc087a000 - 0xc090081c ( 539 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc090081c - 0xc09b5d58 ( 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
[ 4.426681] clocksource: orion_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns
[ 4.426870] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 4.426898] Calibrating delay loop... 1191.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=5955584)
[ 4.516766] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 4.516856] Security Framework initialized
[ 4.516931] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 4.516949] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 4.517685] Initializing cgroup subsys io
[ 4.517730] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 4.517797] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 4.517826] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 4.517850] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 4.517870] Initializing cgroup subsys bfqio
[ 4.517889] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[ 4.517911] Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio
[ 4.517991] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 4.518441] Setting up static identity map for 0x81e0 - 0x8238
[ 4.520317] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 4.522773] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 4.523204] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 4.523987] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 4.524525] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 4.546771] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 4.576771] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 4.576986] Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A0, TCLK=200000000.
[ 4.577013] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[ 4.577053] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[ 4.577812] initial MPP regs: 01111111 11113322 00001111 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 4.577840] final MPP regs: 01111111 11113322 00001111 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 4.618277] vgaarb: loaded
[ 4.618608] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 4.618795] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 4.619123] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 4.619198] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 4.619260] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 4.619431] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 4.619441] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[ 4.619477] PTP clock support registered
[ 4.620592] clocksource: Switched to clocksource orion_clocksource
[ 4.659786] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 4.672996] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 4.673789] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 4.673828] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 4.673859] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[ 4.673930] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 4.673953] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 4.674132] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 4.674450] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 4.674462] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 4.674469] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 4.674476] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 4.674496] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 4.674768] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 4.879569] Freeing initrd memory: 2564K (c1100000 - c1381000)
[ 4.881544] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 4.894086] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[ 4.894347] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 4.896373] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[ 4.897502] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 4.897554] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 4.897562] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 4.897646] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 4.898743] fuse init (API version 7.23)
[ 4.901240] aufs 4.3-20151116
[ 4.906572] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 250)
[ 4.906597] io scheduler noop registered
[ 4.906612] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 4.906896] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 4.907334] io scheduler bfq registered (default)
[ 4.907343] BFQ I/O-scheduler: v7r8
[ 4.907542] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 4.941817] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy )
[ 4.942061] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 4.981772] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR (Registers Mode): ( xor cpy )
[ 4.987376] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 4.988482] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 5.008613] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A
[ 5.645514] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 5.664154] brd: module loaded
[ 5.674360] loop: module loaded
[ 5.678632] nand: Could not find valid ONFI parameter page; aborting
[ 5.685167] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0xf1
[ 5.691570] nand: Hynix NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit
[ 5.696031] nand: 128 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[ 5.703660] Scanning device for bad blocks
[ 5.759255] Bad eraseblock 679 at 0x0000054e0000
[ 5.789976] 2 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand
[ 5.796291] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[ 5.801474] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
[ 5.806957] 0x000000100000-0x000008000000 : "rootfs"
[ 5.825446] libphy: orion_mdio_bus: probed
[ 5.829689] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[ 6.911521] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0 eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:25:31:02:2b:40
[ 6.920473] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 6.927070] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 6.931615] ehci-orion: EHCI orion driver
[ 6.935724] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: EHCI Host Controller
[ 6.941201] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 6.948951] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
[ 6.970622] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 6.977522] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.981376] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 6.985923] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 6.991454] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 6.997546] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-alauda
[ 7.003600] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-cypress
[ 7.009691] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
[ 7.015801] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums_eneub6250
[ 7.022085] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
[ 7.028167] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-isd200
[ 7.034188] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
[ 7.040356] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-karma
[ 7.046293] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-onetouch
[ 7.052513] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-realtek
[ 7.058601] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
[ 7.064621] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
[ 7.070637] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-usbat
[ 7.076940] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 7.300621] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 7.453210] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.457339] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 7.740614] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci
[ 7.852488] usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 7.859099] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
[ 8.090614] rtc-mv rtc-mv: internal RTC not ticking
[ 8.095671] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 8.099802] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 8.106037] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 8.110484] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 8.116736] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 8.122961] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[ 8.128807] gre: GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
[ 8.133774] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 8.138379] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 8.143792] registered taskstats version 1
[ 8.169040] Key type encrypted registered
[ 8.173781] netpoll: netconsole: local port 6665
[ 8.178422] netpoll: netconsole: local IPv4 address 10.10.10.3
[ 8.184483] netpoll: netconsole: interface 'eth0'
[ 8.189208] netpoll: netconsole: remote port 6666
[ 8.193987] netpoll: netconsole: remote IPv4 address 10.10.10.4
[ 8.199934] netpoll: netconsole: remote ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 8.206888] netpoll: netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
[ 8.871684] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer Fit 1.26 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.881499] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 31266816 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)
[ 8.900620] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8.905457] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 8.911262] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 8.920845] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8.946481] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 8.953739] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 11.820923] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0 eth0: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[ 11.843181] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 11.846880] netconsole: network logging started
[ 11.851588] hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 11.858637] Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K (c0830000 - c087a000)
[ 11.918507] random: systemd-tmpfile urandom read with 24 bits of entropy available
[ 92.048544] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
')

So it seems to stop right before systemd is started in the successful boot. Any ideas?

[wobble]

As documented in this other thread I found out that what causes my device not to boot with an initramfs was a "disc identifier" set to 0x00000000.

Which doesn't really answer why the device boots without an initramfs even with this disc identifier. At some point in the initramfs there's probably a search for the boot device by comparing the PARTUUID of blkid with the root variable passed by u-boot which fails because blkid doesn't report a PARTUUID for this device's partitions at all.

[ava1ar]

Some updates from my side:
$this->bbcode_list('1')

I had boot issue with two GoFlex Home after upgrading from linux-kirkwood 4.3.0-1 (with initramfs removed) to linux-kirkwood-dt 4.3.0-1 - in both cases machines were not able to boot right after the upgrade. However, after power cycle both booted OK and now are working fine;

I got another GoFlex and tried to reproduce issue with it, however I wasn't succeed. I tried various manipulations, but in all cases I got normal boot. I have configured netconsole with this GoFlex, so I can use it for issues troubleshooting.

I can help in troubleshooting the issue if anybody has an idea what manipulations should I try.

P.S. Actually, I have a related qustion - why we need the initramfs for GoFlex and similar devices at all? Kernel perfectly boots without it, so is initramfs has any added value?

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ava1ar', 'P').S. Actually, I have a related qustion - why we need the initramfs for GoFlex and similar devices at all? Kernel perfectly boots without it, so is initramfs has any added value?

[sambul13]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'N')etconsole setup is explained in the U-Boot sticky. Check the filesystem with fsck, see it bootz after.

[moonman]

Initramfs is already in uboot environment. Install the newest available uboot and check it, it is there. There is an if else in the environmwnt, if initramfs is found and loaded then the system boots with it, else it will boot without initramfs
viewtopic.php?f=53&t=8857
see it bootz ... I guess i meant to say "see if it boots after that"

[sambul13]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'I')nitramfs is already in uboot environment...
This Uboot version will not boot the stock pogoplug OS from nand. You can install rescue system mentioned above if you want to be able to boot without any external storage devices attached.