Cannot boot from nand after nand-sata-install (v4.6) Cubieboard 1

[vhlemoine]

After downloading and installing (legacy ubuntu trusty) v 4.5 and doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (to v4.6) I ran nand-sata-install to boot and run from nand, my board won't boot because of 

script is invalid and unable to parser boot.ini. I still can boot from my SD-card

 

 

 

the following information is displayed

 

boot0 version : 1.5.0

dram size =1024

Succeed in opening nand flash.

Succeed in reading Boot1 file head.

The size of Boot1 is 0x00056000.

The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect.

Check is correct.

Ready to disable icache.

Succeed in loading Boot1.

Jump to Boot1.

[       0.177] boot1 version : 1.5.0

[       0.177] pmu type = 3

[       0.178] bat vol = 0

[       0.210] axi:ahb:apb=3:2:2

[       0.210] set dcdc2=1400, clock=1008 successed

[       0.212] key

[       0.225] no key found

[       0.225] flash init start

[       0.259] flash init finish

[       0.261] fs init ok

[       0.263] fattype FAT16

[       0.263] fs mount ok

[       0.269] script finish

[       0.270] power finish

[       0.270] storage_type=0

[       0.280] BootMain start

[       0.280] 0

[       0.311] script is invalid

[       0.312] unable to parser boot.ini

[       0.313] try to fel in 1 secend

 

Any idea what might the problem

 

 

[Igor]

Let's check first if your upgrade was successful ? The script is new, old one should be removed on upgrade since it's deprecated and probably won't work.

What do you get:

which nand-sata-install

and

ls -l  /boot

[vhlemoine]

which nand-sata-install

 

/usr/sbin/nand-sata-install

 

(the one with 3 options (1.boot from NAND, system on NAND, 2 boot from NAND system on SATA, 3 Boot from SD, system on SATA)

 

 

ls -l  /boot (sd card)

total 13484

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Nov 24 17:36 bin

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    6944 Oct 12 08:37 boot.bmp

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1804 Oct 12 08:53 boot.cmd

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1876 Oct 12 08:53 boot.scr

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   94895 Nov 23 17:36 config-3.4.110-sun4i

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3130889 Oct 12 08:37 initrd.img-3.4.109-sun4i

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3131868 Nov 24 17:39 initrd.img-3.4.110-sun4i

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 Oct 12 08:38 script.bin -> /boot/bin/cubieboard.bin

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1941812 Nov 23 17:36 System.map-3.4.110-sun4i

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5473704 Nov 23 17:36 vmlinuz-3.4.110-sun4i

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 Nov 24 17:38 zImage -> /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.110-sun4i

 

 

ls -l /boot (on nand1)

 

total 5854

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   16384 Jan  1  1970 .

drwxr-xr-x 24 root root    4096 Nov 25 09:46 ..

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   84132 Nov 23 18:50 boot.axf

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root     116 Nov 23 18:50 boot.ini

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    2048 Nov 24 17:36 linux

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   43724 Nov 25 11:33 script.bin

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  361212 Nov 23 18:50 u-boot.bin

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root     145 Nov 25 11:33 uEnv.txt

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5473768 Nov 25 11:33 uImage

 

[technik007_cz]

I tested this new script on debian Jessie and it is working. Could you post output of this command?

 

ls -la /usr/sbin/nand-sata-install

[vhlemoine]

ls -la /usr/sbin/nand-sata-install

 

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10820 Nov 23 18:50 /usr/sbin/nand-sata-install

[Igor]

Yes, it's a bug. It will be gone in next update ... if you overwrite files on nand boot with this:

 

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/tree/second/scripts/nand-sata-install/usr/lib/nand-sata-install/a10/bootloader

 

it should boot. Please try.

[vhlemoine]

Copied those files to /dev/nand1 and reboot. Now a new error shows up.

 

HELLO! BOOT0 is starting!

boot0 version : 1.5.0

dram size =1024

Succeed in opening nand flash.

Succeed in reading Boot1 file head.

The size of Boot1 is 0x00056000.

The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect.

Check is correct.

Ready to disable icache.

Succeed in loading Boot1.

Jump to Boot1.

[       0.178] boot1 version : 1.5.0

[       0.178] pmu type = 3

[       0.179] bat vol = 0

[       0.211] axi:ahb:apb=3:2:2

[       0.211] set dcdc2=1400, clock=1008 successed

[       0.213] key

[       0.226] no key found

[       0.226] flash init start

[       0.260] flash init finish

[       0.262] fs init ok

[       0.264] fattype FAT16

[       0.264] fs mount ok

[       0.270] script finish

[       0.271] power finish

[       0.271] storage_type=0

[       0.277] elf file header magic not match

[       0.277] elf file c:\boot.axf load fail

 

ls /mnt/bootfs/ -la (mount /dev/nand1 /mnt/bootfs)

total 5506

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   16384 Jan  1  1970 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 Nov 25 10:49 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30593 Nov 27 07:59 boot.axf

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   32479 Nov 27 07:59 boot.ini

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    2048 Nov 24 17:36 linux

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   43724 Nov 25 11:33 script.bin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30614 Nov 27 07:59 u-boot.bin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     145 Nov 25 11:33 uEnv.txt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5473768 Nov 25 11:33 uImage

[Igor]

There is something wrong with a file - they are wrong size. Check if you download files properly (RAW).

 

I had the same error and I only copy those files over and it's booting fine.
 

[vhlemoine]

How did you copy the files? I used wget https//.../boot.axf etc

[Igor]

1.

git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib
cd lib/scripts/nand-sata-install/usr/lib/nand-sata-install/a10/bootloader
rsync -aqc * /XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX # directory where is your /dev/nand1 mounted

or file by file, this way:

 

2. RAW github dl

wget https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/raw/second/scripts/nand-sata-install/usr/lib/nand-sata-install/a10/bootloader/boot.axf

[vhlemoine]

Nope. No cheese!

 

Ran this:

 

git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib
cd lib/scripts/nand-sata-install/usr/lib/nand-sata-install/a10/bootloader
rsync -aqc * /mnt/bootfs

 

Reboot and (old) error is back again

 

HELLO! BOOT0 is starting!

boot0 version : 1.5.0

dram size =1024

Succeed in opening nand flash.

Succeed in reading Boot1 file head.

The size of Boot1 is 0x00056000.

The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect.

Check is correct.

Ready to disable icache.

Succeed in loading Boot1.

Jump to Boot1.

[       0.178] boot1 version : 1.5.0

[       0.178] pmu type = 3

[       0.179] bat vol = 0

[       0.211] axi:ahb:apb=3:2:2

[       0.211] set dcdc2=1400, clock=1008 successed

[       0.213] key

[       0.226] no key found

[       0.226] flash init start

[       0.260] flash init finish

[       0.262] fs init ok

[       0.264] fattype FAT16

[       0.264] fs mount ok

[       0.270] script finish

[       0.271] power finish

[       0.271] storage_type=0

[       0.281] BootMain start

[       0.281] 0

[       0.314] script is invalid

[       0.314] unable to parser boot.ini

[       0.315] try to fel in 1 secend

 

 

 

ls /mnt/bootfs/ -la

total 5854

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   16384 Jan  1  1970 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 Nov 25 10:49 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   84132 Nov 27 08:45 boot.axf

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     116 Nov 27 08:45 boot.ini

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    2048 Nov 27 08:45 linux

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   43724 Nov 25 11:33 script.bin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  361212 Nov 27 08:45 u-boot.bin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     145 Nov 25 11:33 uEnv.txt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5473768 Nov 25 11:33 uImage

[Igor]

Now I am a bit consed. I just build a new image for A10 from clean sources and install it to NAND with root on SATA drive. Zero problems. What's clean image different from upgrade? I'll upload a complete pack later and try that first.

 

There is one common issues .. sometimes, when NANDs boot part gets corrupted it's necessary to install stock Android / Ubuntu to NAND with factory tools (Phoenix suite) and do the install part again. It doean't look that you need to do this but it's an option to try.