mount: special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist

[Frisco]

Hi,
I'm trying to get maverick on my BB XM but i got this message "mount:
special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist".
i have no idea what to do. I did it a bunch of time. I would really
appreciate it if someone would help me.
Thanks..

btw here is the full info in case you need it.


hikoza@hikoza:~$ cd ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel
hikoza@hikoza:~/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel$ ./setup_sdcard.sh --
mmc /dev/mmcblk0 --uboot beagle

I see...
sudo sfdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 24321 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 120576 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track

mount:
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)

Are you 100% sure, on selecting [/dev/mmcblk0] (y/n)? y


1 / 7: Downloading X-loader and Uboot

2010-11-24 22:38:59 URL:http://rcn-ee.net/deb/tools/latest/bootloader
[851/851] -> "/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/deploy/
bootloader" [1]
2010-11-24 22:38:59 URL:http://rcn-ee.net/deb/tools/MLO/MLO-
beagleboard-1.44+r16+gitr1c9276af4d6a5b7014a7630a1abeddf3b3177563-r16
[24296/24296] -> "/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/deploy/
MLO-beagleboard-1.44+r16+gitr1c9276af4d6a5b7014a7630a1abeddf3b3177563-
r16" [1]
2010-11-24 22:39:00 URL:http://rcn-ee.net/deb/tools/UBOOT/u-boot-
beagleboard-2010.03+r65+gitrca6e1c136ddb720c3bb2cc043b99f7f06bc46c55-
r65.bin [209712/209712] -> "/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/
deploy/u-boot-
beagleboard-2010.03+r65+gitrca6e1c136ddb720c3bb2cc043b99f7f06bc46c55-
r65.bin" [1]

2 / 7: Unmountting Partitions


WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended
to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
Partition number (1-4): First cylinder (1-480, default 1): Last
cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-480, default 480):
Command (m for help): Partition number (1-4):
Command (m for help): Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): Changed system type of partition 1 to
e (W95 FAT16 (LBA))

Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3951 MB, 3951034368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 480 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00054192

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 * 1 9 72261 e W95 FAT16
(LBA)

Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.

3 / 7: Formatting Boot Partition

`/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/deploy/MLO-
beagleboard-1.44+r16+gitr1c9276af4d6a5b7014a7630a1abeddf3b3177563-r16'
-> `/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/disk/MLO'
`/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/deploy/u-boot-
beagleboard-2010.03+r65+gitrca6e1c136ddb720c3bb2cc043b99f7f06bc46c55-
r65.bin' -> `/home/hikoza/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel/disk/u-
boot.bin'
done

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended
to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
Partition number (1-4): First cylinder (10-480, default 10): Using
default value 10
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (10-480, default 480): Using
default value 480

Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3951 MB, 3951034368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 480 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00054192

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 * 1 9 72261 e W95 FAT16
(LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 10 480 3783307+ 83 Linux

Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

4 / 7: Formating ext4 Partition


5 / 7: Populating Boot Partition

mount: you must specify the filesystem type
hikoza@hikoza:~/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel$

[Robert Nelson]

Very Strange, due to ^above^, the below errror should not happen..

>
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> hikoza@hikoza:~/ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel$

What Distro version are you running? How often does this occur for
you, every time, 4 out of 5? (it's worked fine for lots of users, but
there a few outliers that it fails on..)

As a last resort, here's the manual instructions, till i'm able to
make this script more bullet proof.. (it won't be till way after
thanksgiving)

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Manually_Setup_SD_Card

Regards,

--
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

[Frisco]

Hi,

I was running on Maverick. Now I'm running on Lucid and the same thing
happen. Sometimes if i did the procedure just after i rebooted my
labtop, then it would go through "6 / 7: Populating rootfs Partition"
but ended up outputting (here are some of the last outputs on the
terminal)


tar: ./sbin/MAKEDEV: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/swapon: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/dhclient3: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/rtmon: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/kbdrate: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/sulogin: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/ifup: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/fsck.nfs: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/initctl: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/iwgetid: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/stop: Cannot create symlink to `initctl': No such file or
directory
tar: ./sbin/insserv: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/fsck.ext3: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/fsck.ext4': No such
file or directory
tar: ./sbin/mkfs.ext4: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/mkfs.ext3': No such
file or directory
tar: ./sbin/killall5: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/unix_update: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/shutdown: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/blockdev: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/halt: Cannot create symlink to `reboot': No such file or
directory
tar: ./sbin/btrfstune: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/status: Cannot create symlink to `initctl': No such file
or directory
tar: ./sbin/poweroff: Cannot create symlink to `reboot': No such file
or directory
tar: ./sbin/fdisk: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/btrfsctl: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/fsck.ext2: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/fsck.ext4': No such
file or directory
tar: ./sbin/mkfs.minix: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/btrfs-map-logical: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/restart: Cannot create symlink to `initctl': No such file
or directory
tar: ./sbin/ifquery: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/ifup': No such file
or directory
tar: ./sbin/ipmaddr: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/mkfs.cramfs: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/btrfs-convert: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/mkfs.bfs: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/iwpriv: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/e2label: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/tune2fs': No such
file or directory
tar: ./sbin/cfdisk: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/sfdisk: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/btrfsck: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/ifconfig: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/isosize: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/mkfs.btrfs: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/iwlist: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/tc: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/init: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/dumpe2fs: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/iwconfig: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/ss: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/ifdown: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/ifup': No such file or
directory
tar: ./sbin/wpa_action: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/iwspy: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/fsck.ext4dev: Cannot hard link to `./sbin/fsck.ext4': No
such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/start-stop-daemon: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/runlevel: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/fsck: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/iwevent: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/pam_tally2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/wpa_supplicant: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/getty: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./sbin/nameif: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./srv: Cannot mkdir: Input/output error
tar: ./bin: Cannot mkdir: Input/output error
tar: ./bin/zfgrep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/login: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/chown: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mknod: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zegrep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mv: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/open: Cannot create symlink to `openvt': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/ip: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/setfont: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/chgrp: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/sync: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/kill: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/dmesg: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zdiff: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/chmod: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/sh.distrib: Cannot create symlink to `bash': No such file
or directory
tar: ./bin/bzip2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/less: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzdiff: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/znew: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/ypdomainname: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/df: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/pwd: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mktemp: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bash: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mount: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/nc: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/unicode_start: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/installer: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/fgconsole: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/lsmod: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/loadkeys: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/domainname: Cannot hard link to `./bin/ypdomainname': No
such file or directory
tar: ./bin/nc.openbsd: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/rmdir: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzegrep: Cannot create symlink to `bzgrep': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/zcat: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/plymouth: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/uname: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzfgrep: Cannot create symlink to `bzgrep': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/uncompress: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/cpio: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/openvt: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzexe: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/dd: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/dir: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/pidof: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/date: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/fgrep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zmore: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/grep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/su: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/umount: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/ln: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzcat: Cannot hard link to `./bin/bzip2': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/bzip2recover: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/egrep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/ps: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/tailf: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zgrep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zcmp: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/lessecho: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/dnsdomainname: Cannot hard link to `./bin/ypdomainname': No
such file or directory
tar: ./bin/echo: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/lesskey: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/false: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/sh: Cannot create symlink to `dash': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/touch: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/gzexe: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bunzip2: Cannot hard link to `./bin/bzip2': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/hostname: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mountpoint: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/rnano: Cannot create symlink to `nano': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/cp: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/stty: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/lessfile: Cannot create symlink to `lesspipe': No such file
or directory
tar: ./bin/mkdir: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/ls: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/netstat: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/cat: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/gzip: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/nisdomainname: Cannot hard link to `./bin/ypdomainname': No
such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzmore: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/ping: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/gunzip: Cannot hard link to `./bin/uncompress': No such
file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzgrep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzcmp: Cannot create symlink to `bzdiff': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/lesspipe: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/netcat: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/ping6: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mt: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/kbd_mode: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/chvt: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zforce: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/rm: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/dumpkeys: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/readlink: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/run-parts: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/more: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/nano: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/mt-gnu: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/vdir: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/rbash: Cannot create symlink to `bash': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/true: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/which: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/sleep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/dash: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/bzless: Cannot create symlink to `bzmore': No such file or
directory
tar: ./bin/setupcon: Cannot open: No such file or directory
356MB 0:00:25 [13.9MB/s] [========================================>]
100%
tar: ./bin/sed: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/zless: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin/tempfile: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./home: Cannot mkdir: Input/output error
tar: ./home/ubuntu: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: ./home/ubuntu/.profile: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./home/ubuntu/.bashrc: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./home/ubuntu/.bash_logout: Cannot open: No such file or
directory
tar: ./var/lib/python-support: Cannot unlink: No such file or
directory
tar: ./var/spool/mail: Cannot unlink: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I looked at the rootfs partition and there is still nothing in there
except the lost+found folder.
I tried to change the partition type on setup_sdcard.sh from EXT4 to
EXT3,EXT2 and the other one. None of them work except for EXT2.
When I format the partition to EXT2, it always go through "6 / 7:
Populating rootfs Partition" and never stuck on "mount: you must
specify the filesystem type "
but it still outputting

.
.
.
tar: ./var/spool/mail: Cannot unlink: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
(same as above)

and still nothing on rootfs partition.

When i plug the sd card on the monitor some of the last lines it
outputted are

Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
No init found . Try passing init=bootarg.

BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

(initramfs)

I've tried the manual instruction but when it come to here

sudo tar xfp armel-rootfs-*.tgz -C ./tmp

It gave me error which ended up the armel-rootfs did not get extract
on rootfs.

do you have any idea how to solve this problem?

Thank you so much.

[Robert Nelson]

Hi Frisco,

I've spent some time rewriting the 'setup_sdcard.sh' script...

2 questions:

What is the md5sum of the original ubuntu*.tar.7z and then the
extracted ubuntu*.tar files?

What is the exact command line your issuing: "./setup_sdcard.sh ....."

Using the updated setup_sdcard.sh.

First remove the old one..

"rm setup_sdcard.sh"

Download the new one:

wget --no-check-certificate
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/raw/master/tools/setup_sdcard.sh

change to executable

chmod a+x setup_sdcard.sh

if/when it fails can you pastebin.com the whole terminal window as
lots of things get dumped to the terminal..

Thanks,

[Steven]

Hi Robert,

here are the md5sum

hikoza@hz:~$ md5sum ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel.tar.7z
6987c076236257227d71b8807cb67829 ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel.tar.7z

hikoza@hz:~$ md5sum ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel.tar
c200daf106f924d03b87772fe2416819 ubuntu-10.10-r2-minimal-armel.tar

I used this "./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/mmcblk0 --uboot beagle"

I've up dated the setup_sdcard.sh but it still failed.
is there a problem if i use built in sdcard slot on my labtop (sony
vaio vgn-fz140E) ?
I also tried to write it on my thumb drive instead of sd card and it
went all the way to "7 / 7: setup_sdcard.sh script complete" without
any problem. is it possible that some sd card does not work with this?
my sd card is the one that came with the board (4 gb). Should a get a
new sd card? Or is there any way for me to boot from the thumb drive?

You are really helpful, thank so much.

[Robert Nelson]

It could be a lot of things, we might be over-stressing the driver for
that particular device, could be a bug in that hardware.. Do you have
any other usb/sd card readers? If it works with a thumb drive, then
you definitely have all the software requirements correct and i would
have expected it to work fine with the reader...

Regards,

[Steven]

Hi Robert ,

I'm using external card reader now and it worked pretty well, thank so
much. I ended up installing lucid on the sd card. Now, the problem is,
when i wanted to install the full GUI for Lucid ( i used this command
"sudo aptitude install xfce4 gdm xubuntu-gdm-theme xubuntu-artwork
xserver-xorg-video-omap3" ) it ended up outputting
"E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.8.1-1.1ubuntu2_armel.deb:
size mismatch".
Do you have any idea how to encounter this?

Thank you.

[Robert Nelson]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Steven <frisco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert ,
>
> I'm using external card reader now and it worked pretty well, thank so
> much. I ended up installing lucid on the sd card.

Sweet, good to hear it works now..

>Now, the problem is,
> when i wanted to install the full GUI for Lucid ( i used this command
> "sudo aptitude install xfce4 gdm xubuntu-gdm-theme xubuntu-artwork
> xserver-xorg-video-omap3" ) it ended up outputting
> "E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.8.1-1.1ubuntu2_armel.deb:
> size mismatch".
> Do you have any idea how to encounter this?

Yeap, you need to update your deb cache..

you should always run 'sudo aptitude update' before you 'sudo aptitude
install xyz'

[Steven]

Hi Robert,

First of all, thank for the very fast reply :).
I tried update the deb cache using "sudo aptitude update" and it gave
me errors

.....
Err http://ports.ubuntu,com lucid release
Err http://ports.ubuntu,com lucid-update release
....
W: A error occurred during the signature verification. the repository
is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error:
http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid release : the following signature were
invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2

W: A error occurred during the signature verification. the repository
is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error:
http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-update release : the following signature
were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2

did i do something wrong again? :(

Thank you.

[Steven]

Hi robert,

I think I have figured out the problem. My apartment's network
required me to fill out a web authentication form each time it detects
any new devices connected to it. Usually when i open up a browser that
would appear on the browser window, in this case there is no way for
me to fill the pass the authentication using the BB, since i do not
have the desktop interface for the first time i booted the BB. So what
i did was I connected the main LAN cable from my apartment to a
router, then I connected the router to my labtop and to the BB, that
way i could pass the authentication on my labtop and stay connected
trough the network while the BB update its package without need to
pass the authentication. Hope this may help other who face the same
problem. Thanks for your help robert.

Frisco.