Some context in this thread:
Essentially, the only images I've been able to successfully flash from the Marvell>> serial prompt have been OEM stock firmware from linksys. I will try the suggestion to load LEDE trunk firmware and see where it goes from here.
I am getting the same failures when flashing any other firmware other than stock, which is quite puzzling. Is there a different way to mark or clean the bad nand blocks?
I tried doing nand erase.part ubifs from this link, didn't help, but it seemed to lower the number of bad blocks seemingly. Is it safe to erase more marked partitions?
I keep getting this error:
[ 1.374106] UBI error: no valid UBI magic found inside mtd5[ 1.379703] mvsw61xx 10.mvsw61xx: Found MV88E6176 at f1072004.mdio-mi:10
[ 1.386431] mvsw61xx 10.mvsw61xx: Using direct addressing
[ 1.400894] armada38x-rtc f10a3800.rtc: setting system clock to 2003-12-11 07:56:05 UTC (1071129365)
[ 1.410374] Waiting 1 sec before mounting root device...
[ 2.481415] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 2.488915] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 2.497299] 1f00 2048 mtdblock0 [ 2.501314] (driver?)
[ 2.503686] 1f01 256 mtdblock1 [ 2.507701] (driver?)
[ 2.510065] 1f02 256 mtdblock2 [ 2.514084] (driver?)
[ 2.516449] 1f03 1024 mtdblock3 [ 2.520464] (driver?)
[ 2.522832] 1f04 40960 mtdblock4 [ 2.526848] (driver?)
[ 2.529211] 1f05 34816 mtdblock5 [ 2.533231] (driver?)
[ 2.535594] 1f06 40960 mtdblock6 [ 2.539609] (driver?)
[ 2.541976] 1f07 34816 mtdblock7 [ 2.545992] (driver?)
[ 2.548356] 1f08 38912 mtdblock8 [ 2.552375] (driver?)
[ 2.554738] 1f09 6656 mtdblock9 [ 2.558753] (driver?)
[ 2.561116] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 2.569400] CPU1: stopping
[ 2.572114] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.9.20 #0
[ 2.578046] Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
[ 2.583993] [] (unwind_backtrace) from [] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 2.591757] [] (show_stack) from [] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x9c)
[ 2.598998] [] (dump_stack) from [] (handle_IPI+0xcc/0x184)
[ 2.606324] [] (handle_IPI) from [] (gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x94)
[ 2.613911] [] (gic_handle_irq) from [] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
[ 2.621409] Exception stack(0xdf475f90 to 0xdf475fd8)
[ 2.626472] 5f80: 00000001 00000000 00000000 c001b160
[ 2.634668] 5fa0: 00000000 df474000 c061efe4 00000002 c0619138 00000000 df475fe8 00000001
[ 2.642864] 5fc0: df46c040 df475fe0 c000f808 c000f80c 60000013 ffffffff
[ 2.649495] [] (__irq_svc) from [] (arch_cpu_idle+0x2c/0x38)
[ 2.656913] [] (arch_cpu_idle) from [] (cpu_startup_entry+0xf0/0x19c)
[ 2.665112] [] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<000095ac>] (0x95ac)
[ 2.672143] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
BootROM - 1.73
Booting from NAND flash
I am seeing similar posts from this goldencoin5 as well at http://community.linksys.com/t5/facebookforums/facebooksingletopicpage/facebook-app/467606153260351/message-uid/810750/tab/board/page/76. Going to follow his/her journey and see where it takes me. Hopefully me documenting this helps someone else in the future who's unfortunate enough to run into this issue.
I ran
Marvell>> nand bad
Device 0 bad blocks:
fa0000 (kernel -- higher than a00000, lower than 1000000)
1260000 (rootfs -- higher than 1000000, lower than 3200000)
26c0000 (rootfs -- higher than 1000000, lower than 3200000)
2e20000 (rootfs -- higher than 1000000, lower than 3200000)
32a0000 (alt_kernel -- higher than 1000000, lower than 3200000)
7f00000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7f20000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7f40000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7f60000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7f80000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7fa0000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7fc0000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
7fe0000 (syscfg -- higher than 5a00000)
Marvell>> mtdparts
device nand0 , # parts = 10
#: name size offset mask_flags
0: uboot 0x000000200000 0x000000000000 1
1: u_env 0x000000040000 0x000000200000 0
2: s_env 0x000000040000 0x000000240000 0
3: devinfo 0x000000100000 0x000000900000 0
4: ubifs 0x000005000000 0x000000a00000 0
5: kernel 0x000002800000 0x000000a00000 0
6: rootfs 0x000002200000 0x000001000000 0
7: alt_kernel 0x000002800000 0x000003200000 0
8: alt_rootfs 0x000002200000 0x000003800000 0
9: syscfg 0x000002600000 0x000005a00000 0
active partition: nand0,0 - (uboot) 0x000000200000 @ 0x000000000000
defaults:
mtdids : none
mtdparts: none
So I need to figure out which parts are bad and erase that part.
I recommend you load McDebian.
Then follow the McDebian wiki instructions to load LEDE firmware onto both image locations. This for sure will update the bad blocks tables. I recommend flashing it like this a few times to be sure all the bad blocks are marked.
I will try the McDebian install as you recommend from https://github.com/Chadster766/McDebian/wiki/2.-Firmware-Uploading. Can I use the OEM stock webUI to upload the image, or should I stick to using USB-TTL method?
I tried loading ddwrt image again through flash this time instead of webgui to both partitions. The altnandboot partition is showing the same error about bad blocks. The nandboot partition gets further in the boot process, but eventually errors out with the following. This seems to indicate that things might be getting more corrupted? I'm going to try McDebian next when I'm back from work in the evening.
reset boot counter
sh: can't create /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/pwm1: Permission denied
[ 6.283780] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
cannot open /proc/irq/195/smp_affinity
[USB] checking...
umount: can't unmount /mnt: No such file or directory
Name: lan_ifname Value: br0
Name: lan_ifnames Value: eth1 eth0 ath0 ath1
Name: wan_ifname Value: eth0
Name: wan_ifname2 Value: eth0
Name: wan_ifnames Value: eth0
Name: wan_default Value: eth0
ath9k deconfigure_single: phy0 ath0
ath9k deconfigure_single: phy1 ath1
ifconfig: invali[ 8.031622] device br0 entered promiscuous mode
d hw-addr
killall: ead: no process killed
[ 8.302367] device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
sh: [ 8.308420] device br0 left promiscuous mode
ead: not found
[ 8.314073] device br0 entered promiscuous mode
ifconfig: ioctl 0x8914 failed: A[ 8.322935] device br0 left promiscuous mode
ddress not available
ath9k deconfigure_single: phy0 ath0
ath9k decon[ 8.336419] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
figure_single: p[ 8.342674] cfg80211: DFS Master region: FCC
hy1 ath1
[ 8.342675] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[ 8.342681] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 8.342683] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2300 mBm), (N/A)
[ 8.342685] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2300 mBm), (N/A)
[ 8.342688] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2300 mBm), (N/A)
[ 8.342690] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 8.342692] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 10.301154] mvneta f1070000.ethernet eth1: link up
[ 10.305967] br0: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
[ 10.311127] br0: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
resetbutton: factory default.
send dhcp lease release signal
[ 12.301139] br0: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
ath9k configure_single: phy0 ath0
sh: can't create /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/chanbw: nonexistent directory
sh: can't create /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/ani: nonexistent directory
command failed: Not supported (-95)
call mac80211autochannel for interface: ath0
Sending SIGTERM [ 12.785323] watchdog watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
to all processes
Sending SIGKILL to all processes
unmounting /
unmounting /
Here's my output from flashing, if that helps identify bad blocks further:
Marvell>> run update_both_images
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.254; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'cobra.img'.
Load address: 0x2000000
Loading: #################################################################
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7.3 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 30671104 (1d40100 hex)
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0x2800000
Skipping bad block at 0x00fa0000
Skipping bad block at 0x01260000
Skipping bad block at 0x026c0000
Skipping bad block at 0x02e20000
Erasing at 0x31e0000 -- 100% complete.
OK
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x3200000, size 0x2800000
Skipping bad block at 0x032a0000
Erasing at 0x59e0000 -- 100% complete.
OK
NAND write: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0x1d40100
Skip bad block 0x00fa0000
Skip bad block 0x01260000
Skip bad block 0x026c0000
30671104 bytes written: OK
NAND write: device 0 offset 0x3200000, size 0x1d40100
Skip bad block 0x032a0000
30671104 bytes written: OK
Lots of bad block in the primary image location.
If you continue to have problems try the McDebian flash technique from a clean McDebian install because the output will show bad blocks as being marked bad. Then see what happens when you load LEDE.
Do you mean these instructions here?:
I have the USB prepped to go with the root filesystem. Just waiting until the evening when I get home to try it again. I hope it's able to flash the Mcdebian image enough to access the USB.
So essentially I will be doing the following steps:
WRT1900AC\S V1\V2, WRT1200AC V1\V2
flash_erase /dev/mtd4 0 0
flash_erase /dev/mtd5 0 0
flash_erase /dev/mtd6 0 0
flash_erase /dev/mtd7 0 0
9) Flash the firmware to the primary and alternate MTD partitions
WRT1900AC\S V1\V2, WRT1200AC V1\V2
nandwrite -p /dev/mtd4 LEDE-firmware-filename
nandwrite -p /dev/mtd6 LEDE-firmware-filename
Does McDebian clean up the bad blocks when it is installed? Is it step 8 where we flash_erase and write 0s to the nand partitions that does it?
And if that doesn't work, I see other users have had similar problems with nand blocks being bad:
http://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/WRT1900AC-and-OpenWrt/m-p/963018#M306183
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=286838#p286838
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=286815#p286815
I am going to give this set of commands a try if McDebian install doesn't work:
ValCher wrote:
I said the team "nand markbad off" one bad, tried to clean it
nand scrub.part, but nothing happened. Bad remained not know can
something not done. Remove it could only nand scrub.chip.
Prior to this team, and I copied Uboot Devinfo in memory of the router.
How to do it:
Uboot
nand read 2000000 0 100000
Devinfo
nand read 3000000 900000 100000
nand scrub.chip
nand erase.chip
nand write 2000000 0 100000
nand write 3000000 900000 100000
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
setenv netmask 255.255.255.0
setenv serverip 192.168.1.254
setenv firmware_name FW_WRT1900AC_1.1.10.167514_prod.img
run update_both_images
Yes you got it.
I can't remember which but its either step 8 or 9.
I don't recommend running "nand scrub.chip" this will erase all MTD partitions including u-boot, u-boot env and the Linksys devinfo partitions. You will have to reinstall the boot loader and recover the Linksys partition information if you didn't back it up. 
Won't this part write those back from memory? Or will it need still need a boot loader re-install? The steps seem to indicate that this part will recover it.
nand read 2000000 0 100000
nand read 3000000 900000 100000
nand write 2000000 0 100000
nand write 3000000 900000 100000
So, the McDebian image isn't working. I flashed McDebian-WRT1900AC-V2-FW_VER1_kernel_4.9.12.img to both partitions (The initial TTT is from when I forgot to plug in my ethernet cable):
Marvell>> run update_both_images
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.254; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'cobra.img'.
Load address: 0x2000000
Loading: T T T #################################################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
###
242.2 KiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 3853073 (3acb11 hex)
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0x2800000
Skipping bad block at 0x00fa0000
Skipping bad block at 0x01260000
Skipping bad block at 0x026c0000
Skipping bad block at 0x02e20000
Erasing at 0x31e0000 -- 100% complete.
OK
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x3200000, size 0x2800000
Skipping bad block at 0x032a0000
Erasing at 0x59e0000 -- 100% complete.
OK
NAND write: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0x3acb11
3853073 bytes written: OK
NAND write: device 0 offset 0x3200000, size 0x3acb11
Skip bad block 0x032a0000
3853073 bytes written: OK
Marvell>> reset
Then here is output of a failed boot from nandboot partition
auto_recovery_check changes bootcmd: run nandboot
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
NAND read: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0x600000
Skipping bad block 0x00fa0000
6291456 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02000000 ...
Image Name: linux
Created: 2017-02-25 11:20:23 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 3853009 Bytes = 3.7 MiB
Load Address: 00200000
Entry Point: 00200000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
1.361096] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 1.368643] usb usb3: We don't know the algorithms for LPM for this host, disabling LPM.
[ 1.377036] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.380807] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.385146] input: gpio_keys as /devices/platform/gpio_keys/input/input0
[ 1.392449] Waiting 5 sec before mounting root device...
[ 5.691706] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd
[ 5.864136] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 5.870334] scsi host2: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[ 6.481771] VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 6.489096] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 6.497479] 1f00 2048 mtdblock0 [ 6.501495] (driver?)
[ 6.503866] 1f01 256 mtdblock1 [ 6.507881] (driver?)
[ 6.510244] 1f02 256 mtdblock2 [ 6.514263] (driver?)
[ 6.516627] 1f03 1024 mtdblock3 [ 6.520641] (driver?)
[ 6.523010] 1f04 40960 mtdblock4 [ 6.527025] (driver?)
[ 6.529388] 1f05 34816 mtdblock5 [ 6.533407] (driver?)
[ 6.535770] 1f06 40960 mtdblock6 [ 6.539785] (driver?)
[ 6.542151] 1f07 34816 mtdblock7 [ 6.546166] (driver?)
[ 6.548529] 1f08 38912 mtdblock8 [ 6.552548] (driver?)
[ 6.554911] 1f09 6656 mtdblock9 [ 6.558926] (driver?)
[ 6.561289] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 6.569572] CPU1: stopping
[ 6.572286] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.9.12 #13
[ 6.578305] Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
[ 6.584250] [<c010f658>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010b404>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 6.592016] [<c010b404>] (show_stack) from [<c0331a8c>] (dump_stack+0x90/0xa4)
[ 6.599257] [<c0331a8c>] (dump_stack) from [<c010e49c>] (handle_IPI+0x170/0x190)
[ 6.606670] [<c010e49c>] (handle_IPI) from [<c0101530>] (gic_handle_irq+0x88/0x8c)
[ 6.614257] [<c0101530>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c010bf0c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
[ 6.621755] Exception stack(0xdf469f88 to 0xdf469fd0)
[ 6.626818] 9f80: 00000001 00000000 df469fe0 c0118260 df468000 c0a03080
[ 6.635014] 9fa0: c0a0302c 00000002 00000000 00000000 c094e5c8 c0a03088 c094c3c0 df469fd8
[ 6.643209] 9fc0: c010818c c0108190 60000013 ffffffff
[ 6.648272] [<c010bf0c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c0108190>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x38/0x3c)
[ 6.655687] [<c0108190>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c01592d0>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x180/0x210)
[ 6.663971] [<c01592d0>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<0010166c>] (0x10166c)
[ 6.670775] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
I also tried the altnandboot:
Marvell>> run altnandboot
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x3200000, size 0x600000
Skipping bad block 0x032a0000
6291456 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02000000 ...
Image Name: linux
Created: 2017-02-25 11:20:23 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 3853009 Bytes = 3.7 MiB
Load Address: 00200000
Entry Point: 00200000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
[ 1.303665] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.309522] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.314871] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 1.322436] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: hcc params 0x0a000990 hci version 0x100 quirks 0x00010010
[ 1.330997] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: irq 43, io mem 0xf10f8000
[ 1.337108] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.340882] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.344952] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.347946] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.347972] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.361105] xhci-hcd f10f8000.usb3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 1.368657] usb usb3: We don't know the algorithms for LPM for this host, disabling LPM.
[ 1.377053] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.380824] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.385163] input: gpio_keys as /devices/platform/gpio_keys/input/input0
[ 1.392842] Waiting 5 sec before mounting root device...
[ 5.691738] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd
[ 5.864175] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 5.870375] scsi host2: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[ 6.481803] VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 6.489128] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 6.497510] 1f00 2048 mtdblock0 [ 6.501525] (driver?)
[ 6.503896] 1f01 256 mtdblock1 [ 6.507912] (driver?)
[ 6.510276] 1f02 256 mtdblock2 [ 6.514296] (driver?)
[ 6.516660] 1f03 1024 mtdblock3 [ 6.520675] (driver?)
[ 6.523044] 1f04 40960 mtdblock4 [ 6.527058] (driver?)
[ 6.529421] 1f05 34816 mtdblock5 [ 6.533439] (driver?)
[ 6.535803] 1f06 40960 mtdblock6 [ 6.539818] (driver?)
[ 6.542186] 1f07 34816 mtdblock7 [ 6.546200] (driver?)
[ 6.548564] 1f08 38912 mtdblock8 [ 6.552583] (driver?)
[ 6.554947] 1f09 6656 mtdblock9 [ 6.558962] (driver?)
[ 6.561326] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 6.569609] CPU1: stopping
[ 6.572324] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.9.12 #13
[ 6.578342] Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
[ 6.584287] [<c010f658>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010b404>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 6.592053] [<c010b404>] (show_stack) from [<c0331a8c>] (dump_stack+0x90/0xa4)
[ 6.599293] [<c0331a8c>] (dump_stack) from [<c010e49c>] (handle_IPI+0x170/0x190)
[ 6.606707] [<c010e49c>] (handle_IPI) from [<c0101530>] (gic_handle_irq+0x88/0x8c)
[ 6.614294] [<c0101530>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c010bf0c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
[ 6.621792] Exception stack(0xdf469f88 to 0xdf469fd0)
[ 6.626854] 9f80: 00000001 00000000 df469fe0 c0118260 df468000 c0a03080
[ 6.635050] 9fa0: c0a0302c 00000002 00000000 00000000 c094e5c8 c0a03088 c094c3c0 df469fd8
[ 6.643245] 9fc0: c010818c c0108190 60000013 ffffffff
[ 6.648309] [<c010bf0c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c0108190>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x38/0x3c)
[ 6.655724] [<c0108190>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c01592d0>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x180/0x210)
[ 6.664008] [<c01592d0>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<0010166c>] (0x10166c)
[ 6.670812] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
I have no idea what to do next. I'm scared/concerned that if I try nand scrub, even the OEM image won't work.
Plug the McDebian usb key into the usb2 and reboot.
I flashed Linksys OEM firmware, and then loaded McDebian from within it, while having USB plugged in, and rebooted. Now I have McDebian working. I assume I proceed with the flash_erase instructions?
[ 1.392540] Waiting 5 sec before mounting root device...
[ 1.701712] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd
[ 1.874142] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 1.880342] scsi host2: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[ 2.962101] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ADATA USB Flash Drive 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 2.970705] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 15806464 512-byte logical blocks: (8.09 GB/7.54 GiB)
[ 2.978417] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2.983330] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed
[ 2.988827] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2.996441] sda: sda1
[ 3.007736] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 6.482358] EXT4-fs (sda1): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 6.559287] random: fast init done
[ 8.211071] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
[ 8.220490] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 8.228188] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 8:1.
[ 8.240399] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 8.243800] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K (c0900000 - c0a00000)
[ 8.382297] systemd[1]: systemd 215 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR)
[ 8.395756] systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'arm'.
Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)!
[ 8.786338] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 8.791283] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
[ 8.799049] systemd[1]: Set hostname to .
Ok I've erased mtd partitions, here comes the flash....
Last login: Wed Dec 31 18:00:22 CST 1969 on ttyS0
Linux MCDEBIAN 4.9.12 #13 SMP Sat Feb 25 05:18:48 CST 2017 armv7l
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root@MCDEBIAN:~# ls
root@MCDEBIAN:~# cd /tmp/
root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp# dir
lede-mvebu-linksys-wrt1900acv2-squashfs-factory\ (2).img
systemd-private-7b3710bbe48a4bb0a0441bc8ffe2be9a-dibbler-client.service-KBvAGP
).img CDEBIAN:/tmp# md5sum lede-mvebu-linksys-wrt1900acv2-squashfs-factory\ \(2\)
0e9a41d30d5ed1d7d334610361a4c40e lede-mvebu-linksys-wrt1900acv2-squashfs-factory (2).img
root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp# flash_erase /dev/mtd4 0 0
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 580000 -- 13 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 005a0000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 840000 -- 20 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 00860000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 1ca0000 -- 71 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 01cc0000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 2400000 -- 90 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 02420000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 27e0000 -- 100 % complete
root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp# flash_erase /dev/mtd5 0 0
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 240000 -- 6 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 00260000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 16a0000 -- 66 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 016c0000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 1e00000 -- 88 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 01e20000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 21e0000 -- 100 % complete
root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp# flash_erase /dev/mtd6 0 0
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 80000 -- 1 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 000a0000
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 27e0000 -- 100 % complete
root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp# flash_erase /dev/mtd7 0 0
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 21e0000 -- 100 % complete
root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp#Partitions written. About to reboot. Formatting got messed up since I'm doing it through putty connection.
fs-factory\ \(2\).img ndwrite -p /dev/mtd4 lede-mvebu-linksys-wrt1900acv2-squashf
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root@MCDEBIAN:/tmp#FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, it's failing with the same kernel panic with a LEDE image.
[ 1.369876] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.374134] UBI error: no valid UBI magic found inside mtd5[ 1.379727] mvsw61xx 10.mvsw61xx: Found MV88E6176 at f1072004.mdio-mi:10
[ 1.386455] mvsw61xx 10.mvsw61xx: Using direct addressing
[ 1.400745] armada38x-rtc f10a3800.rtc: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:15:21 UTC (921)
[ 1.409615] Waiting 1 sec before mounting root device...
[ 2.481464] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 2.488964] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 2.497348] 1f00 2048 mtdblock0 [ 2.501364] (driver?)
[ 2.503736] 1f01 256 mtdblock1 [ 2.507752] (driver?)
[ 2.510116] 1f02 256 mtdblock2 [ 2.514135] (driver?)
[ 2.516499] 1f03 1024 mtdblock3 [ 2.520514] (driver?)
[ 2.522882] 1f04 40960 mtdblock4 [ 2.526897] (driver?)
[ 2.529261] 1f05 34816 mtdblock5 [ 2.533279] (driver?)
[ 2.535643] 1f06 40960 mtdblock6 [ 2.539658] (driver?)
[ 2.542026] 1f07 34816 mtdblock7 [ 2.546041] (driver?)
[ 2.548405] 1f08 38912 mtdblock8 [ 2.552424] (driver?)
[ 2.554789] 1f09 6656 mtdblock9 [ 2.558803] (driver?)
[ 2.561168] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 2.569451] CPU1: stopping
[ 2.572167] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.9.20 #0
[ 2.578098] Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
[ 2.584045] [<c0016010>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0012220>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 2.591811] [<c0012220>] (show_stack) from [<c020f63c>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x9c)
[ 2.599050] [<c020f63c>] (dump_stack) from [<c0014f0c>] (handle_IPI+0xcc/0x184)
[ 2.606376] [<c0014f0c>] (handle_IPI) from [<c0009450>] (gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x94)
[ 2.613963] [<c0009450>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c0012c8c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
[ 2.621462] Exception stack(0xdf475f90 to 0xdf475fd8)
[ 2.626524] 5f80: 00000001 00000000 00000000 c001b160
[ 2.634721] 5fa0: 00000000 df474000 c061efe4 00000002 c0619138 00000000 df475fe8 00000001
[ 2.642917] 5fc0: df46c040 df475fe0 c000f808 c000f80c 60000013 ffffffff
[ 2.649547] [<c0012c8c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c000f80c>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x2c/0x38)
[ 2.656965] [<c000f80c>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c005b00c>] (cpu_startup_entry+0xf0/0x19c)
[ 2.665164] [<c005b00c>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<000095ac>] (0x95ac)
[ 2.672194] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
and altnandboot
[ 1.295232] UBI error: no valid UBI magic found inside mtd7
[ 1.295232] mvsw61xx 10.mvsw61xx: Found MV88E6176 at f1072004.mdio-mi:10
[ 1.295235] mvsw61xx 10.mvsw61xx: Using direct addressing
[ 1.308452] armada38x-rtc f10a3800.rtc: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:15:43 UTC (943)
[ 1.392907] Waiting 1 sec before mounting root device...
[ 1.392981] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.481598] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 2.489098] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 2.497483] 1f00 2048 mtdblock0 [ 2.501499] (driver?)
[ 2.503871] 1f01 256 mtdblock1 [ 2.507887] (driver?)
[ 2.510251] 1f02 256 mtdblock2 [ 2.514271] (driver?)
[ 2.516636] 1f03 1024 mtdblock3 [ 2.520651] (driver?)
[ 2.523018] 1f04 40960 mtdblock4 [ 2.527033] (driver?)
[ 2.529397] 1f05 34816 mtdblock5 [ 2.533416] (driver?)
[ 2.535781] 1f06 40960 mtdblock6 [ 2.539796] (driver?)
[ 2.542164] 1f07 34816 mtdblock7 [ 2.546179] (driver?)
[ 2.548542] 1f08 38912 mtdblock8 [ 2.552561] (driver?)
[ 2.554925] 1f09 6656 mtdblock9 [ 2.558940] (driver?)
[ 2.561304] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 2.569587] CPU1: stopping
[ 2.572302] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.9.20 #0
[ 2.578234] Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
[ 2.584182] [<c0016010>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0012220>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 2.591947] [<c0012220>] (show_stack) from [<c020f63c>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x9c)
[ 2.599187] [<c020f63c>] (dump_stack) from [<c0014f0c>] (handle_IPI+0xcc/0x184)
[ 2.606513] [<c0014f0c>] (handle_IPI) from [<c0009450>] (gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x94)
[ 2.614101] [<c0009450>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c0012c8c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
[ 2.621599] Exception stack(0xdf475f90 to 0xdf475fd8)
[ 2.626661] 5f80: 00000001 00000000 00000000 c001b160
[ 2.634858] 5fa0: 00000000 df474000 c061efe4 00000002 c0619138 00000000 df475fe8 00000001
[ 2.643055] 5fc0: df46c040 df475fe0 c000f808 c000f80c 60000013 ffffffff
[ 2.649686] [<c0012c8c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c000f80c>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x2c/0x38)
[ 2.657104] [<c000f80c>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c005b00c>] (cpu_startup_entry+0xf0/0x19c)
[ 2.665302] [<c005b00c>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<000095ac>] (0x95ac)
[ 2.672332] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
BootROM - 1.73