Creating uSD card

[raff]

Hello,
is still valid the procedure described at http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/imx233-olinuxino-get-started-making-the-arch-linux-sd-card/?
I'm trying to create a uSD but it doesn't boot. I need kernel 2.6.35-6, lastest kernel doesn't support sound yet.
Thank you

Raff

[jlumme]

It looks correct.
Personally, I haven't been bothering with 2.x kernels now for a while, but can you show us the trace (output form UART) from boot attempt ? We could help you much more if we saw what is happening during the boot..

[raff]

Hello,

thank you for your reply, I was thinking to compare a working SD with a not working one.
Here the booting log, I tried with 2 different SD and they fail at same point.
The board is a imX233-MAXI rev.B

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HTLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLFC
PowerPrep start initialize power...
Battery Voltage = 0.78V
No battery or bad battery detected!!!.Disabling battery voltage íHTLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLFC
PowerPrep start initialize power...
Battery Voltage = 2.22V
No battery or bad battery detected!!!.Disabling battery voltage measurements./r/nLLCAug 22 201215:25:39
EMI_CTRL 0x1C084040
FRAC 0x92926192
init_ddr_mt46v32m16_133Mhz
power 0x00820710
Frac 0x92926192
start change cpu freq
hbus 0x00000003
cpu 0x00010001
LLLLLLLFCLJUncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.35-6-ARCH+ (kiril@plug) (gcc version 4.7.1 20120721 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Fri Aug 31 14:22:01 EEST 2012
CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
Machine: iMX233-OLinuXino low cost board
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait ssp1=mmc lcd_panel=tvenc_pal no_console_suspend
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
allocated 327680 bytes of page_cgroup
please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 56392k/56392k available, 9144k reserved, 0K highmem
Virtual kernel memory layout:
    vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
    fixmap  : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000   ( 896 kB)
    DMA     : 0xfde00000 - 0xffe00000   (  32 MB)
    vmalloc : 0xc4800000 - 0xf0000000   ( 696 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xc4000000   (  64 MB)
    modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000   (  16 MB)
      .init : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0028000   ( 128 kB)
      .text : 0xc0028000 - 0xc03b3000   (3628 kB)
      .data : 0xc03ce000 - 0xc03f9140   ( 173 kB)
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled.
Verbose stalled-CPUs detection is disabled.
NR_IRQS:224
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
console [ttyAMA0] enabled
Calibrating delay loop... 226.09 BogoMIPS (lpj=1130496)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Security Framework initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Initializing cgroup subsys ns
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
Initializing cgroup subsys memory
Initializing cgroup subsys devices
Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
devtmpfs: initialized
regulator: core version 0.5
NET: Registered protocol family 16
regulator: vddd: 800 <--> 1575 mV at 1550 mV fast normal
regulator: vdddbo: 800 <--> 1575 mV fast normal
regulator: vdda: 1500 <--> 2275 mV at 1750 mV fast normal
regulator: vddio: 2800 <--> 3575 mV at 3300 mV fast normal
regulator: overall_current: fast normal
regulator: mxs-duart-1: fast normal
regulator: mxs-bl-1: fast normal
regulator: mxs-i2c-1: fast normal
regulator: mmc_ssp-1: fast normal
regulator: mmc_ssp-2: fast normal
regulator: charger-1: fast normal
regulator: power-test-1: fast normal
regulator: cpufreq-1: fast normal
i.MX IRAM pool: 28 KB@0xc4808000
usb: DR gadget (utmi) registered
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Switching to clocksource mxs clock source
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
rootfs image is not initramfs (junk in compressed archive); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4096K
Bus freq driver module loaded
mxs_cpu_init: cpufreq init finished
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
msgmni has been set to 118
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
cryptodev: driver loaded.
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x36
mxs-duart.0: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x80070000 (irq = 0) is a DebugUART
mxs-auart.1: ttySP1 at MMIO 0x8006c000 (irq = 24) is a mxs-auart.1
Found APPUART 3.0.0
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
usbmon: debugfs is not available
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
fsl-ehci fsl-ehci: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller
fsl-ehci fsl-ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
fsl-ehci fsl-ehci: irq 11, io base 0x80080000
fsl-ehci fsl-ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb1: Product: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.35-6-ARCH+ ehci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: fsl-ehci
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 libusual
ARC USBOTG Device Controller driver (1 August 2005)
udc: request mem region for fsl-usb2-udc failed
fsl-usb2-udc: probe of fsl-usb2-udc failed with error -16
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
MXS RTC driver v1.0 hardware v2.0.0
mxs-rtc mxs-rtc.0: rtc core: registered mxs-rtc as rtc0
i2c /dev entries driver
WARNING : No battery connected !

Aborting power driver initialization
mxs-battery: probe of mxs-battery.0 failed with error 1
mxs watchdog: initialized, heartbeat 19 sec
mxs-mmc: MXS SSP Controller MMC Interface driver
ssp_set_rate: error -110
mxs-mmc mxs-mmc.0: mmc0: MXS SSP MMC DMAIRQ 14 ERRIRQ 15
dcp dcp.0: DCP crypto enabled.!
mxs-adc-audio mxs-adc-audio.0: MXS ADC/DAC Audio Codec
No device for DAI mxs adc/dac
No device for DAI mxs adc/dac
asoc: mxs adc/dac <-> mxs adc/dac mapping ok
ALSA device list:
  #0: MXS EVK (mxs adc/dac)
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
registered taskstats version 1
mxs-rtc mxs-rtc.0: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:10 UTC (10)
·RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2...
mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 NCard 3.70 GiB
mmcblk0: p1 p2
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using fsl-ehci and address 2
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 179:2.
devtmpfs: mounted
Freeing init memory: 128K
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9512
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
··
INIT: ·version 2.88 booting·

·usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using fsl-ehci and address 3
HTLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLFC
PowerPrep start initialize power...
Battery Voltage = 1.64V
No battery or bad battery detected!!!.Disabling battery voltage measurements./r/nLLCAug 22 201215:25:39
EMI_CTRL 0x1C084040
FRAC 0x92926192
init_ddr_mt46v32m16_133Mhz
power 0x00820710
Frac 0x92926192
start change cpu freq
hbus 0x00000003
cpu 0x00010001
LLLLLLLFCLJUncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
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[jlumme]

Hmmm, to me it looks like your kernel is up and running, and now it's starting the init process (last stage of the boot). It is responsible of mouting the filesystem, and start init process.

This usually means that something is not right with the filesystem (so the second partition on the memory card). Kernel looks ok to me.

So in the guide you used, steps 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 are dealing with the root filesytem extraction to the mmc.
Also of course the preparation step needs to be ok (formatting the 2 partitions).
On your development machine, can you see the filesystem on the memorycard ? (sd*2 , ie. /dev/sdb2)

[raff]

yes, I can  see the sdb2 partition using PC.

I've noticed that one of 2 sd cards starts sometimes but USB and LAN are not working, looking at booting log I can that usually it restarts when dealing with usb chip.
So I suppose that the USB chip is not working.
I'll take another board to test the sd card.

I tried also an uSD card with 3.x kernel and it's not working too.

I'll do more test, thank you.