bobafetthotmail1:

Btw, I'm using the same dtb I use to boot Debian on it.

diizzyy:

nbd kindly committed fixes recently which might be of interest, this makes my iomega iconnect device boot and flash properly.

bobafetthotmail1:

Sadly, that patch is unrelated (he changes the nand partition names of some kirkwood devices from "root" to "ubi"). My nand partitions already had the right names.

I just built an image with kernel outside of ubi (using same sources as I used for the bug report) and everything works fine.

These are the partitions I have on flash now (before there was only ubi after the uboot stuff).

[ 0.870019] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "uboot"
[ 0.876440] 0x000000100000-0x000000180000 : "uboot_env"
[ 0.882786] 0x000000180000-0x000000680000 : "kernel"
[ 0.888807] 0x000000680000-0x000008000000 : "ubi"

this is the part about ubi not failing like before and actually doing its job.

[ 1.030586] UBI: auto-attach mtd3
[ 1.033752] ubi0: attaching mtd3
[ 1.040249] UBI: EOF marker found, PEBs from 12 will be erased
[ 1.046376] ubi0: scanning is finished
[ 1.081030] ubi0: volume 1 ("rootfs_data") re-sized from 9 to 938 LEBs
[ 1.088278] ubi0: attached mtd3 (name "ubi", size 121 MiB)
[ 1.093820] ubi0: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 129024 bytes
[ 1.100741] ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 512
[ 1.107473] ubi0: VID header offset: 512 (aligned 512), data offset: 2048
[ 1.114305] ubi0: good PEBs: 972, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
[ 1.120348] ubi0: user volume: 2, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
[ 1.127600] ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 1/0, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 120222938
[ 1.136699] ubi0: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 972, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 20
[ 1.146319] ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 903
[ 1.210154] block ubiblock0_0: created from ubi0:0(rootfs)
[ 1.215682] ubiblock: device ubiblock0_0 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem

And I get to serial console afterwards.

So, there are either issues with the kernel patch that detects multiple partitions in ubi when there is also the kernel in it, or I did something wrong.
I did copycat the goflexnet that is working fine here, so I'm a bit puzzled about this.

bobafetthotmail1:

a full boot log, in case someone is interested

[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.4.39 (alby@openSUSE-xeon) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LEDE GCC 5.4.0 r2684-94030e8) ) #0 Mon Dec 26 10:17:33 2016
[ 0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0005397f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine model: ZyXEL NSA310b
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 65024
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200
[ 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: 253776K/262144K available (3978K kernel code, 138K rwdata, 1484K rodata, 176K init, 196K bss, 8368K 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 - 0xff800000 ( 752 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc055ddb4 (5464 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc055e000 - 0xc058a000 ( 176 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc058a000 - 0xc05ac848 ( 139 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc05ac848 - 0xc05ddbec ( 197 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[ 0.000000] clocksource: orion_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 9556302233 ns
[ 0.000009] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns
[ 0.000090] Calibrating delay loop... 1196.85 BogoMIPS (lpj=5984256)
[ 0.090083] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.090193] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.090213] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.090744] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.091111] Setting up static identity map for 0x81e0 - 0x821c
[ 0.091425] mvebu-soc-id: MVEBU SoC ID=0x6281, Rev=0x3
[ 0.096685] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.096833] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.097907] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.098250] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.099140] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.099491] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[ 0.099536] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[ 0.117776] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.118532] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.118608] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.118667] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.119589] clocksource: Switched to clocksource orion_clocksource
[ 0.120680] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.121212] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.121247] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.121277] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[ 0.121328] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.121354] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.121501] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.123313] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.123384] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[ 0.136383] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.136407] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.139104] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.139121] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.140356] kirkwood-pinctrl f1010000.pin-controller: registered pinctrl driver
[ 0.140943] irq: Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ33, assuming pre-allocated
[ 0.141291] irq: Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ65, assuming pre-allocated
[ 0.141854] mvebu-pcie mbus:pcie-controller: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.141873] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x1000-0xfffff]
[ 0.141884] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff]
[ 0.141898] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.142182] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[ 0.142196] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[ 0.142713] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[ 0.142809] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0xe0000000-0xe00fffff]
[ 0.142824] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 7: assigned [io 0x10000-0x10fff]
[ 0.142842] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0xe0000000-0xe000ffff pref]
[ 0.142857] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [mem 0xe0010000-0xe0013fff 64bit pref]
[ 0.142879] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0xe0014000-0xe0014fff 64bit pref]
[ 0.142898] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [io 0x10000-0x100ff]
[ 0.142912] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[ 0.142924] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge window [io 0x10000-0x10fff]
[ 0.142937] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge window [mem 0xe0000000-0xe00fffff]
[ 0.173043] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.174068] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.174141] f1012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 26, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.709412] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.714092] sata_mv f1080000.sata: slots 32 ports 2
[ 0.722227] scsi host0: sata_mv
[ 0.726140] scsi host1: sata_mv
[ 0.729509] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 32
[ 0.733661] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 32
[ 0.738384] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xf1
[ 0.744795] nand: Samsung NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit
[ 0.749436] nand: 128 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[ 0.757062] Scanning device for bad blocks
[ 0.859033] 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand
[ 0.864903] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[ 0.870077] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "uboot"
[ 0.876488] 0x000000100000-0x000000180000 : "uboot_env"
[ 0.882830] 0x000000180000-0x000007f80000 : "ubi"
[ 0.889398] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.896000] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 0.900552] ehci-orion: EHCI orion driver
[ 0.904745] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.910309] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 0.918134] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: irq 30, io mem 0xf1050000
[ 0.939607] orion-ehci f1050000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.946322] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.950295] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.954682] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 0.961165] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: rtc core: registered f1010300.rtc as rtc0
[ 0.968123] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 0.972912] orion_wdt: Initial timeout 21 sec
[ 0.982666] marvell-cesa f1030000.crypto: CESA device successfully registered
[ 0.990926] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.996778] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.001332] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 1.014021] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 1.020556] UBI: auto-attach mtd2
[ 1.023721] ubi0: attaching mtd2
[ 1.033646] UBI: EOF marker found, PEBs from 28 will be erased
[ 1.039808] ubi0: scanning is finished
[ 1.043833] ubi0 error: ubi_read_volume_table: the layout volume was not found
[ 1.051305] ubi0 error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach mtd2, error -22
[ 1.058410] UBI error: cannot attach mtd2
[ 1.062520] rtc-mv f1010300.rtc: setting system clock to 2016-12-31 17:20:41 UTC (1483204841)
[ 1.249613] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[ 1.289603] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 1.441676] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.445773] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 1.599608] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[ 1.605318] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 1.612856] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 1.621260] 1f00 1024 mtdblock0 (driver?)
[ 1.626339] 1f01 512 mtdblock1 (driver?)
[ 1.631432] 1f02 129024 mtdblock2 (driver?)
[ 1.636513] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 1.645537] Rebooting in 1 seconds..

bobafetthotmail1:

And a mailing list thread with another guy (J Mo) that encounters the same issue when adding a new device
http://u-boot.denx.narkive.com/VjazWBZq/older-u-boot-mangles-ubi-from-ubinize-1-5-2

[ 3.781181] ubi0: attaching mtd11
[ 3.835224] UBI: EOF marker found, PEBs from 40 will be erased
[ 3.835384] ubi0: scanning is finished
[ 3.840040] ubi0 error: ubi_read_volume_table: the layout volume was
not found
[ 3.844072] ubi0 error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach mtd11,
error -22
[ 3.850897] UBI error: cannot attach mtd11

but then hoses his uboot and the thread stops

nbd:

Fixed in r2904-3be4c6ca93