Invalid partition message during boot

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acheesehead

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Feb 8, 2017, 3:10:20 PM2/8/17
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I built Linux RT for a custom board based upon Beagleboard xM exactly as in Robert C. Nelson's page https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard.

Here is what I get during boot, tried on a real Beagleboard xM and get the same behavior. The booting stops at a u-boot prompt.

U-Boot SPL 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 04 2017 - 12:10:18)
Trying to boot from MMC1
SPL: Please implement spl_start_uboot() for your board
SPL: Direct Linux boot not active!
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img


U-Boot 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 04 2017 - 12:10:18 -0700)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.2, CPU-OPP2, L3-200MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 GHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  512 MiB
NAND:  0 MiB
MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

Beagle xM Rev C
No EEPROM on expansion board
No EEPROM on expansion board
OMAP die ID: 101000229ff80000016830c319017022
Net:   usb_ether
Error: usb_ether address not set.

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 0
Checking for: /uEnv.txt ...
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt ...
26 bytes read in 7 ms (2.9 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from /boot/uEnv.txt
Checking if uname_r is set in /boot/uEnv.txt...
Running uname_boot ...
** Invalid partition 3 **
** Invalid partition 4 **
** Invalid partition 5 **
** Invalid partition 6 **
** Invalid partition 7 **
=>

Robert Nelson

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Feb 8, 2017, 3:17:29 PM2/8/17
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Please share your "/boot/uEnv.txt"

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acheesehead

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Feb 8, 2017, 3:21:40 PM2/8/17
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Got around that problem. My uEnv.txt file was wrong.

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Feb 8, 2017, 3:31:35 PM2/8/17
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On Wed, 2/8/17, Robert Nelson <robert...@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Invalid partition message during boot
To: "Beagle Board" <beagl...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: achee...@gmail.com
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 10:16 PM

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at
2:10 PM, acheesehead <achee...@gmail.com>
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> I built Linux RT for a custom
board based upon Beagleboard xM exactly as in
> Robert C. Nelson's page
https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard.
>
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acheesehead

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Feb 8, 2017, 3:33:06 PM2/8/17
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Boots ok on Beagleboard xM, but hangs on our custom board.

U-Boot SPL 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 04 2017 - 12:10:18)
Trying to boot from MMC1
SPL: Please implement spl_start_uboot() for your board
SPL: Direct Linux boot not active!
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img


U-Boot 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 04 2017 - 12:10:18 -0700)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.2, CPU-OPP2, L3-200MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 GHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  256 MiB
NAND:  0 MiB
MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

Beagle Rev Ax/Bx
No EEPROM on expansion board
No EEPROM on expansion board
OMAP die ID: 715e00029ff800000156083e0501c01d
Net:   usb_ether
Error: usb_ether address not set.

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 0
Checking for: /uEnv.txt ...
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt ...
26 bytes read in 7 ms (2.9 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from /boot/uEnv.txt
Checking if uname_r is set in /boot/uEnv.txt...
Running uname_boot ...
loading /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.7-armv7-rt-x4 ...
6435000 bytes read in 499 ms (12.3 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/4.9.7-armv7-rt-x4/omap3-beagle.dtb ...
98676 bytes read in 210 ms (458 KiB/s)
debug: [console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait musb_hdrc.fifo_mode=5] ...
debug: [bootz 0x82000000 - 0x88000000] ...
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
   Loading Device Tree to 8ffe4000, end 8ffff173 ... OK
fdt_find_or_add_subnode: memory: FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE
ERROR: arch-specific fdt fixup failed
 - must RESET the board to recover.

FDT creation failed! hanging...### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###


On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 1:10:20 PM UTC-7, acheesehead wrote:

Robert Nelson

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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:33 PM, acheesehead <achee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Boots ok on Beagleboard xM, but hangs on our custom board.
>
> U-Boot SPL 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 04 2017 - 12:10:18)
> Trying to boot from MMC1
> SPL: Please implement spl_start_uboot() for your board
> SPL: Direct Linux boot not active!
> reading u-boot.img
> reading u-boot.img
>
>
> U-Boot 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 04 2017 - 12:10:18 -0700)
>
> OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.2, CPU-OPP2, L3-200MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 GHz
> OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND

> Beagle Rev Ax/Bx

> loading /boot/dtbs/4.9.7-armv7-rt-x4/omap3-beagle.dtb ...

Why is your board going down the Beagle classic route?

Take a look at the gpio's used for id on the xM C, you messed those up
when you built your custom board..

acheesehead

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Feb 8, 2017, 5:12:43 PM2/8/17
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Robert,

My u-boot mod somehow got wiped. Put it back in and recompiled. I'm still having a problem with the device tree (which I don't know enough about):

U-Boot 2017.03-rc1-dirty (Feb 08 2017 - 15:00:15 -0700)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.2, CPU-OPP2, L3-200MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 GHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  256 MiB
NAND:  0 MiB
MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

Beagle xM Rev C
No EEPROM on expansion board
No EEPROM on expansion board
OMAP die ID: 715e00029ff800000156083e0501c01d
Net:   usb_ether
Error: usb_ether address not set.

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 0
Checking for: /uEnv.txt ...
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt ...
53 bytes read in 7 ms (6.8 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from /boot/uEnv.txt
Checking if uname_r is set in /boot/uEnv.txt...
Running uname_boot ...
loading /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.7-armv7-rt-x4 ...
6435000 bytes read in 499 ms (12.3 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/4.9.7-armv7-rt-x4/omap3-beagle-xm.dtb ...
100032 bytes read in 233 ms (418.9 KiB/s)
debug: [console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait] ...
debug: [bootz 0x82000000 - 0x88000000] ...
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
   Loading Device Tree to 8ffe4000, end 8ffff6bf ... OK
fdt_find_or_add_subnode: memory: FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE
ERROR: arch-specific fdt fixup failed
 - must RESET the board to recover.

FDT creation failed! hanging...### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###


Jim Bell

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Jan 13, 2018, 1:02:33 AM1/13/18
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Please let us know what changes you made to your uEnv.txt file. I'm seeing the same symptom as above:
** Invalid partition 2 **
** Invalid partition 3 **
** Invalid partition 4 **
** Invalid partition 5 **
** Invalid partition 6 **
** Invalid partition 7 **


Todd Peterson

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Jan 13, 2018, 1:23:54 AM1/13/18
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Sorry Jim, forgot how I fixed this.

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Jim Bell

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Jan 13, 2018, 7:50:31 AM1/13/18
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For posterity, I'm past this "** Invalid partition 2** ..." issue, though I'm not exactly sure how. I was using "make O=... install" instead of "make O=... zinstall"; also, I did another build on the kernel ("make O=..."). 


On Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 12:23:54 AM UTC-6, acheesehead wrote:
Sorry Jim, forgot how I fixed this.
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Jim Bell <j...@jc-bell.com> wrote:
Please let us know what changes you made to your uEnv.txt file. I'm seeing the same symptom as above:
** Invalid partition 2 **
** Invalid partition 3 **
** Invalid partition 4 **
** Invalid partition 5 **
** Invalid partition 6 **
** Invalid partition 7 **


On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 2:21:40 PM UTC-6, acheesehead wrote:
Got around that problem. My uEnv.txt file was wrong.

On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 1:10:20 PM UTC-7, acheesehead wrote:
I built Linux RT for a custom board based upon Beagleboard xM exactly as in Robert C. Nelson's page https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard.


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