Bug#975490: u-boot-sunxi: A64-Olinuxino-eMMC boot stuck at "Starting kernel ..."

[Philip Rinn]

Hi,

I followed https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_an_SD_card_image using the daily build of the unstable netboot installer from https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/20221009-02:38/netboot/SD-card-images/ and I was able to install successfully but the system does not boot - it tries to boot from eMMC actually:

U-Boot SPL 2020.04+olimex-2-20210111.165338 (Jan 30 2020 - 11:10:18 +0000)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC2
NOTICE:  BL31: v2.2(debug):v2.2-8-g51ce3c6-dirty
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 19:42:23, Mar 20 2020
NOTICE:  BL31: Detected Allwinner A64/H64/R18 SoC (1689)
NOTICE:  BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x40ab7d8, model: Olimex A64-Olinuxino-eMMC
INFO:    ARM GICv2 driver initialized
INFO:    Configuring SPC Controller
NOTICE:  BL31: PMIC: Detected AXP803 on RSB.
INFO:    PMIC: AXP803: Enabling DRIVEVBUS
INFO:    PMIC: AXP803: dcdc1 voltage: 3.300V
INFO:    PMIC: AXP803: dcdc5 voltage: 1.360V
INFO:    PMIC: AXP803: dcdc6 voltage: 1.100V
INFO:    PMIC: AXP803: dldo1 voltage: 3.300V
INFO:    PMIC: AXP803: dldo4 voltage: 3.300V
INFO:    BL31: Platform setup done
INFO:    BL31: Initializing runtime services
INFO:    BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for 843419 was applied
INFO:    BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for 855873 was applied
INFO:    BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO:    Entry point address = 0x4a000000
INFO:    SPSR = 0x3c9




CPU:   Allwinner A64 (SUN50I)
Model: Olimex A64-Olinuxino-eMMC
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1
Loading Environment from EXT4... ** File not found /uboot.env **

** Unable to read "/uboot.env" from mmc0:1 **
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Allwinner mUSB OTG (Peripheral)
Net:   phy interface7
eth0: ethernet@1c30000
Warning: usb_ether using MAC address from ROM
, eth1: usb_ether
starting USB...
Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0
Bus usb@1c1b000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb@1c1b400: USB OHCI 1.0
scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@1c1b000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@1c1b400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device
Scanning mmc 1:1...
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
2904 bytes read in 1 ms (2.8 MiB/s)
## Executing script at 4fc00000
30797760 bytes read in 1340 ms (21.9 MiB/s)
29408 bytes read in 3 ms (9.3 MiB/s)
32463063 bytes read in 1412 ms (21.9 MiB/s)
Booting Debian 5.19.0-2-arm64 from mmc 0:1...
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 4fa00000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x4fa00000
   Loading Ramdisk to 4810a000, end 49fff8d7 ... OK
   Loading Device Tree to 00000000480ff000, end 00000000481092df ... OK

Starting kernel ...










fdisk gives me:

Disk /dev/sda: 14,72 GiB, 15804137472 bytes, 30867456 sectors
Disk model: STORAGE DEVICE
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: SOME-UUID

Device        Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048   999423   997376  487M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2    999424 28866559 27867136 13,3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  28866560 30865407  1998848  976M Linux swap




Might be related to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000313


I'm happy to debug further, but I'm lost.

Best,
Philip

U-Boot 2020.04+olimex-2-20210111.165338 (Jan 30 2020 - 11:10:18 +0000) Allwinner Technology [I didn't use the exact same board as the reporter but the industrial variant of that board - I don't see any reason why they should behave differently in that regard.] When I tried to install u-boot again from an chroot, I got (/dev/sda is the SDCARD and I needed to install u-boot-sunxi): $ sudo systemd-nspawn -q -E DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive -E LANG=C -E LC_ALL=C -D /PATH/WHERE/I/MOUNTED/THE/SDCARD --bind=/dev/sda -E TARGET=/usr/lib/u-boot/a64-olinuxino-emmc/ u-boot-install-sunxi64 /dev/sda /usr/bin/u-boot-install-sunxi64: device/image (/dev/sda) uses GPT partition table, unusable on sunxi64 To me it seems the debian-installer (or is it flash-kernel-installer?) is doing something wrong here ...

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