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howtos:hardware:arm:sone_u-boot_hints [2013/12/22 10:36 (UTC)] – [Sources] louigi600howtos:hardware:arm:sone_u-boot_hints [2013/12/25 23:26 (UTC)] (current) – [Making it easy for u-boot to find uImage and uinitrd] louigi600
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 ====== Making it easy for u-boot to find uImage and uinitrd ====== ====== Making it easy for u-boot to find uImage and uinitrd ======
-I often fiddle with testing root images, kernels and initrd on my kirkwood based systems by using usb flash sticks. I found that although Jeff did a brilliant job on uboot his default environment was unable to directly boot all my testing images.+I often fiddle with testing root images, kernels and initrd on my kirkwood based systems by using usb flash sticks. I found that although Jeff did a brilliant job on uboot, at the time I started fiddling with custom boot images on my dosckstar, his default environment was unable to directly boot all my testing images that were rapidly changing in layout. To work around this I started making canges to his environment.
  
 I made myself a custom environment that was more flexible and allowed me to boot from any usb port as long as the following limitations are met: I made myself a custom environment that was more flexible and allowed me to boot from any usb port as long as the following limitations are met:
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 Labeling the root filesystem was a workaround when I started getting issues on device namings changes as I began using the SATA drives for NAS storage. In practice what was happening was that uboot thought that root was on sda but once the kernel booted it would detect the SATA drives before that and name the usb memory stick to after the last SATA drive causing a kernel panic as initrd attempts to mount the root filesystem. Labeling the root filesystem was a workaround when I started getting issues on device namings changes as I began using the SATA drives for NAS storage. In practice what was happening was that uboot thought that root was on sda but once the kernel booted it would detect the SATA drives before that and name the usb memory stick to after the last SATA drive causing a kernel panic as initrd attempts to mount the root filesystem.
 I thus changed the u-boot environment to pass the root device as a label rather then a device path. This allows me to boot my GoFlexNet correctly from any usb stick (even trough a usb hub) regardless of the presence of the SATA drives. I thus changed the u-boot environment to pass the root device as a label rather then a device path. This allows me to boot my GoFlexNet correctly from any usb stick (even trough a usb hub) regardless of the presence of the SATA drives.
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 +To my understanding the latest uboot environments actually do more then this now ... so here's my last hybrid environment:
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 +  arcNumber=3089
 +  baudrate=115200
 +  bifsload=0x800000 /boot/$kernel && ubifsload 0x1100000 /boot/$initrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; fi
 +  bootargs=${console} ${mtdparts} ${root_fs} ro ${rootfstype}
 +  bootcmd=usb start; run force_rescue_bootcmd; run ubifs_bootcmd; run usb_scan; usb stop; run rescue_bootcmd; run pogo_bootcmd; reset
 +  bootdelay=3
 +  console=ttyS0,115200
 +  ethact=egiga0
 +  ethaddr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
 +  force_rescue=0
 +  force_rescue_bootcmd=if test $force_rescue -eq 1 || ext2load usb 0:1 0x1700000 /rescueme 1 || fatload usb 0:1 0x1700000 /rescueme.txt 1; then run rescue_bootcmd; fi
 +  initrd=uinitrd
 +  kernel=uImage
 +  led_error=orange blinking
 +  led_exit=green off
 +  led_init=green blinking
 +  mainlineLinux=yes
 +  mtdids=nand0=orion_nand
 +  mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data)
 +  partition=nand0,2
 +  pogo_bootcmd=if fsload uboot-original-mtd0.kwb; then go 0x800200; fi
 +  rescue_bootcmd=if test $rescue_installed -eq 1; then run rescue_set_bootargs; nand read.e 0x800000 0x100000 0x400000; bootm 0x800000; else run pogo_bootcmd; fi
 +  rescue_installed=0
 +  rescue_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0:rootfs ro rootfstype=ubifs $mtdparts $rescue_custom_params
 +  root_fs=root=LABEL=root
 +  rootfstype=rootfs=ext3
 +  safearcNumber=2097
 +  setbootargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} ${mtdparts} ${root_fs} ro ${rootfstype}
 +  stderr=serial
 +  stdin=serial
 +  stdout=serial
 +  ubifs_bootcmd=run ubifs_set_bootargs; if ubi part data && ubifsmount rootfs && ubifsload 0x800000 /boot/uImage && ubifsload 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; then bootm 0x800000 0x1100000; fi
 +  ubifs_mtd=3
 +  ubifs_set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=$console ubi.mtd=$ubifs_mtd root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs $mtdparts $ubifs_custom_params
 +  usb_dev_list=3 2 1 0
 +  usb_part_list=4 3 2 1
 +  usb_rootdelay=10
 +  usb_scan=sleep 5; setenv usb_boot_dev none; for dev in $usb_dev_list; do for part in $usb_part_list; do if ext2load usb ${dev}:$part 0x800000 /boot/$kernel 10; then setenv usb_boot_dev $dev:$part; setenv usb_boot_dir /boot; fi; if ext2load usb ${dev}:$part 0x800000 /$kernel 10; then setenv usb_boot_dev $dev:$part; setenv usb_boot_dir ; fi; done; done; if test "$usb_boot_dev" = "none"; then echo "No USB bootable device found"; else echo "USB device $usb_boot_dev is bootable"; run setbootargs; echo $bootargs; sleep 1; ext2load usb $usb_boot_dev 0x800000 $usb_boot_dir/$kernel && setenv usb_boot_address 0x800000; ext2load usb $usb_boot_dev 0x1100000 $usb_boot_dir/$initrd && setenv usb_boot_address 0x800000 0x1100000; bootm $usb_boot_address; fi;
  
 ====== Sources ====== ====== Sources ======
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