Blank eMMC, failure in U-Boot after running from SD card

[joshcarter]

I have 4 MacchiatoBin boards purchased from SolidRun, all with blank onboard e-MMC. It’s the same problem as from this thread.

I followed instructions from this wiki page to get a board booting from the micro-SD card, and brought up Linux from there. Specifically, In U-Boot I ran:

mmc dev 1
setenv image_name boot/vmlinuz-4.14.126-mvebu64
setenv fdt_name boot/dtb-4.14.126-mvebu64/marvell/armada-8040-mcbin.dtb
setenv bootmmc 'mmc dev 1; ext4load mmc 1:1 $kernel_addr $image_name;ext4load mmc 1:1 $fdt_addr $fdt_name;setenv bootargs $console root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rw rootwait; booti $kernel_addr - $fdt_addr'
saveenv
run bootmmc

Here’s the problem: after a clean shutdown, the next boot fails in the bootloader. U-Boot gets to “Hit any key to stop autoboot…” but then freezes. No prompt or anything. I went through the same process with another board, had it running from micro-SD, and again it failed after a shutdown and fresh power-on. Since I can’t do anything in U-Boot, both boards are effectively useless. SolidRun support is not responsive. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
Josh

[nanasi]

Hi,
You can configure jumpers and a microSD to load another bootloader from the microSD.

– Boot Selection
– Setup alternative boot sources
or
– Marvell ARMADA 8040 Dipswitch
– Armada 8040 U-Boot and ATF

[joshcarter]

Thank you, I didn’t notice the board had jumpers for selecting the boot option. (I wish I had looked at the board more closely!) I can get back into Linux now.

Best regards,
Josh

[joshcarter]

It turns out I’m still having this problem, but it’s intermittent. The MacchiatoBin appears to not read from the SD card correctly, even though it’s well-seated and it’s a card I’ve used successfully in the past (SanDisk Ultra). My boot sequence shows:

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt -  00008000
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt status 00000003
SD - sd_get_cmd_response: Get command response failed.

SD - sd_init: Failed - ret = 00000081
Error: Failed initializing interface
Error: Failed boot attempt 01. error = 0x0C1

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt -  00008000
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt status 00000003
SD - sd_get_cmd_response: Get command response failed.

SD - sd_init: Failed - ret = 00000081
Error: Failed initializing interface
Found valid image at boot postion 0x000
lNOTICE:  Starting binary extension
NOTICE:  SVC: DEV ID: 8040, FREQ Mode: 0x6
NOTICE:  SVC: AVS work point changed from 0x28 to 0x28
mv_ddr: mv_ddr-armada-17.10.3-g656440a (Jan 30 2018 - 08:26:37)
mv_ddr: completed successfully
NOTICE:  Cold boot
NOTICE:  Booting Trusted Firmware
NOTICE:  BL1: v1.3(release):armada-17.10.3:71dd56e
NOTICE:  BL1: Built : 08:26:42, Jan 30 2018
NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL2
lNOTICE:  BL2: v1.3(release):armada-17.10.3:71dd56e
NOTICE:  BL2: Built : 08:26:44, Jan 30 2018
BL2: Initiating SCP_BL2 transfer to SCP
NOTICE:  SCP_BL2 contains 2 concatenated images
NOTICE:  Load image to CP1 MSS
NOTICE:  Loading MSS image from address 0x4023020 Size 0x1378 to MSS at 0xf4280000
NOTICE:  Done
NOTICE:  Load image to AP MSS
NOTICE:  Loading MSS image from address 0x4024398 Size 0x1f68 to MSS at 0xf0580000
N

FreeRTOS 7.3.0 - Marvell cm3 - A8K release armada-17.10.1

OTICE:  Done
NOTICE:  SCP Image doesn't contain PM firmware
NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL31
lNOTICE:  MSS PM is not supported in this build
NOTICE:  BL31: v1.3(release):armada-17.10.3:71dd56e
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 08:26:46, Jan 30 2018
l

U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.1-g9e422a2-dirty (Jan 30 2018 - 08:25:55 +0000)

Model: MACCHIATOBin-8040
Clock:  CPU     1800 [MHz]
        DDR     1200 [MHz]
        FABRIC  1200 [MHz]
        MSS     200  [MHz]
DRAM:  16 GiB
U-Boot DT blob at : 000000007f70ac38
EEPROM configuration pattern not detected.
Comphy chip #0:
Comphy-0: PEX0         
Comphy-1: PEX0         
Comphy-2: PEX0         
Comphy-3: PEX0         
Comphy-4: SFI          
Comphy-5: SATA1        
Comphy chip #1:
Comphy-0: SGMII1        1.25 Gbps 
Comphy-1: SATA0        
Comphy-2: USB3_HOST0   
Comphy-3: SATA1        
Comphy-4: SFI          
Comphy-5: SGMII2        3.125 Gbps
UTMI PHY 0 initialized to USB Host0
going to start mss_periodic_ihb_wa for mss
SATA link 0 timeout.
SATA link 1 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
flags: 64bit ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs 
SATA link 0 timeout.
SATA link 1 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
flags: 64bit ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs 
PCIE-0: Link down
MMC:   sdhci@6e0000: 0, sdhci@780000: 1
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Net:   eth0: mvpp2-0 [PRIME]mdio_register: non unique device name 'ethernet@0'
, eth1: mvpp2-3, eth2: mvpp2-4, eth3: mvpp2-5
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  2

I previously thought I just had a bad micro-SD card, as I was using a generic 8GB one, but now the problem’s occurring with known-good cards as well. Any advice?

Thanks,
Josh

[nanasi]

In my case,
when cold boot is starting,
the following error messages are reported.

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt -  00008000
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt status 00000120
SD - read_buffer_pio: Failed - ret = 00000081
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt -  00008000
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt status 00000120
SD - wait_transfer_complete: wait for transfer completion timeout.

Error: failed reading from boot position 0x00000000
Error: Failed boot attempt 01. error = 0x0C1

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt -  00008000
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt status 00000120
SD - read_buffer_pio: Failed - ret = 00000081
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt -  00008000
SD - wait_for_sd_interrupt: Error interrupt status 00000120
SD - wait_transfer_complete: wait for transfer completion timeout.

Error: failed reading from boot position 0x00000000
Found valid image at boot postion 0x002
lNOTICE:  Starting binary extension

But no problems appear when accessing the SD card.

The only malfunction is that
a legacy (<=2GB) SD card is not usable for boot source.

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - sd_init: Only Standard Capacity SD cards are supported.
Error: Failed initializing interface
Error: Failed boot attempt 01. error = 0x0C3

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - sd_init: Only Standard Capacity SD cards are supported.
Error: Failed initializing interface
Error: Failed boot attempt 02. error = 0x0C3

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - sd_init: Only Standard Capacity SD cards are supported.
Error: Failed initializing interface
Error: Failed boot attempt 03. error = 0x0C3

BootROM - 2.03
Starting CP-0 IOROM 1.07
Booting from SD 0 (0x29)
SD - sd_init: Only Standard Capacity SD cards are supported.
Error: Failed initializing interface
Error: Failed boot attempt 04. error = 0x0C3

Trying Uart..

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