Boot hanging on Pocketchip sd trixie 6.18.20 minimal Latest 26.2.0 trunk.668 at "Starting Kernel ..."

[Paulo Carvalho]

I have a 512 MB RAM, 4GB Toshiba NAND PocketCHIP with a custome u-boot supporting USB Booting and decided to test the latest armbian community image for the PocketCHIP (https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.668/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.668_Pocketchip-sd_trixie_current_6.18.20_minimal.img.xz) 

 

Boot seems to start fine with all kernel files load confirmed by u-boot output (vmlinuz, ramdisk dtb, etc) but then it goes mute while starting the kernel

 

@TheSnowfield, you are listed as the pocketchip board maintainer (thanks a lot for your contribution! 🙏), any ideas of what am I missing? Do you have a suggestion for a working build? Thanks!

 

Serial UART output:

 

U-Boot SPL 2016.01-00115-g5f814bb (Dec 09 2016 - 23:00:24)
Fuel Gauge: 77%
Battery Voltage: 3776mV
DRAM: 512 MiB
CPU: 1008000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
Trying to boot from NAND


U-Boot 2021.10-rc5+ (Oct 21 2021 - 14:43:51 -0500) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A13 (SUN5I)
Model: NextThing C.H.I.P.
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  sunxi SPL version mismatch: expected 3, got 1
512 MiB
NAND:  4096 MiB
Loading Environment from nowhere... OK
Setting up a 480x272 lcd console (overscan 0x0)
In:    serial
Out:   vidconsole
Err:   vidconsole
sunxi SPL version mismatch: expected 2, got 1
starting USB...
Bus usb@1c14000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb@1c14400: USB OHCI 1.0
scanning bus usb@1c14000 for devices... 5 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@1c14400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
DIP: PocketCHIP (0x1) from Next Thing Co. (0x9d011a)
Found 1 extension board(s).

Device 0: Vendor: Mass     Rev: 1.00 Prod: Storage Device
            Type: Removable Hard Disk
            Capacity: 14832.0 MB = 14.4 GB (30375936 x 512)
... is now current device
Scanning usb 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
5475 bytes read in 4 ms (1.3 MiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
U-boot loaded from NAND
154 bytes read in 4 ms (37.1 KiB/s)
sun5i-r8-chip.dtb: No match
Load fdt: /boot/dtb/sun5i-r8-chip.dtb
14474151 bytes read in 780 ms (17.7 MiB/s)
10539688 bytes read in 557 ms (18 MiB/s)
Found mainline kernel configuration
25215 bytes read in 9 ms (2.7 MiB/s)
2146 bytes read in 7 ms (298.8 KiB/s)
Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (sun5i-a13-fixup.scr)
## Executing script at 45000000
Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0xa0d2a8 ]
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 43400000 ...
   Image Name:   uInitrd
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    14474087 Bytes = 13.8 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
   Loading Ramdisk to 49232000, end 49fffb67 ... OK
   Loading Device Tree to 491c3000, end 49231fff ... OK

Starting kernel ...

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Paulo Carvalho
Fixed device tag