[Buildroot] can t find root fs kernel panic

[Joseph G. Boike <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com>]

Mike Sander wrote:
> Joseph G. Boike wrote:
>> I'm hoping someone can help me with this.
>> I'm using this morning buildroot (How do I determine the rev #?)
>> Built for an Atmel at91sam9260 processor and eval board.
>> I've tried using the ext2, ext2.gz and jffs root filesystems with the 
>> same results.
>> Below is an abridged capture from the kernel during boot.
>> I've tried google, but everything I saw was related to the bootloader 
>> pointing to the wrong disk.
>> My u-boot invocation is:
>> bootp 21500000 linux.gz; bootp 20410000 rootfs.ext2.gz; bootm 21500000
>> Is the Kernel command line correct?
>> (I've tried 2 different boards, so I don't think it's h/w.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Joe
>>
>> Starting kernel ...
>>
>> Uncompressing 
>> Linux.................................................................................................... 
>>
>> Linux version 2.6.24.4 (JoeB at elab14_linux.localdomain) (gcc version 
>> 4.2.1) #2 Fri Jun 20 10:07:40 EDT 2008
>> CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
>> Machine: Atmel AT91SAM9260-EK
>> Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
>> Clocks: CPU 199 MHz, master 99 MHz, main 18.432 MHz
>> CPU0: D VIVT write-back cache
>> CPU0: I cache: 8192 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 64 sets
>> CPU0: D cache: 8192 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 64 sets
>> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 
>> 16256
>> Kernel command line: mem=64M console=ttyS0,115200 
>> initrd=0x20410000,3145728 root=/dev/ram0 rw
>>
>> Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
>> Memory: 58056KB available (3352K code, 238K data, 140K init)
>>
>> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); 
>> looks like an initrd
>> Freeing initrd memory: 3072K
>> NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
>> DLM (built Jun 20 2008 09:40:47) installed
>> JFS: nTxBlock = 478, nTxLock = 3824
>>
>> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 15360K size 1024 blocksize
>>
>> RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
>> List of all partitions:
>> No filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext2 cramfs msdos vfat jfs
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
>> unknown-block(1,0)
>>
>>
>>   
> Joseph,
>
> I have just grabbed todays snapshot & built for an at91sam9260ek 
> [you're not specific on the exact board you are using].   Using all 
> the default I can boot and mount ext2 (i'm sure others will work).   
> the ext2 is a good one to start with as the kernel has support for 
> this in the default configuration.
>
> I'm using u-boot.  I put the ext2 image 
> (binaries/uclibc/rootfs.arm-20080620.ext2) at 0x21100000.   I put the 
> uImage at 0x21400000.   I used the default kernel command line set up 
> for this target (which has initrd at 21100000).  Its the same as 
> yours, but slightly different address for the initrd.     Are you 
> loading the correct file system image?  Are you putting at the correct 
> address corresponding to the kernel command line (either default or 
> supplied by you)?
>
> Here is my u-boot stuff & boot log.  Maybe this might help
>
> U-Boot>   tftp 21100000 rootfs.arm-20080620.ext2
> TFTP from server 192.168.1.2; our IP address is 192.168.1.3
> Filename 'rootfs.arm-20080620.ext2'.
> Load address: 0x21100000
> Loading: 
> #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        ####T 
> #############################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #######
> done
> Bytes transferred = 4026368 (3d7000 hex)
> U-Boot> tftp 21400000 uImage.buildroot-20080620
> TFTP from server 192.168.1.2; our IP address is 192.168.1.3
> Filename 'uImage.buildroot-20080620'.
> Load address: 0x21400000
> Loading: 
> #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        #################################################################
>        ######
> done
> Bytes transferred = 1025408 (fa580 hex)
> U-Boot> bootm
> ## Booting image at 21400000 ...
>  Image Name:   Linux-2.6.22.1
>  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>  Data Size:    1025344 Bytes = 1001.3 kB
>  Load Address: 20008000
>  Entry Point:  20008000
>  Verifying Checksum ... OK
> OK
>
> Starting kernel ...
>
> Uncompressing 
> Linux.................................................................... 
> done, booting the kernel.
> Linux version 2.6.22.1 (mike at himalia) (gcc version 4.2.4) #1 Fri Jun 
> 20 16:53:37 EDT 2008
> CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
> Machine: Atmel AT91SAM9260-EK
> Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
> Clocks: CPU 198 MHz, master 99 MHz, main 18.432 MHz
> CPU0: D VIVT write-back cache
> CPU0: I cache: 8192 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 64 sets
> CPU0: D cache: 8192 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 64 sets
> Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 16256
> Kernel command line: mem=64M console=ttyS0,115200 
> initrd=0x21100000,3145728 root=/dev/ram0 rw
> AT91: 96 gpio irqs in 3 banks
> PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
> Console: colour dummy device 80x30
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
> Memory: 59648KB available (1856K code, 188K data, 100K init)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
> usbcore: registered new device driver usb
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
> TCP reno registered
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); 
> looks like an initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 3072K
> NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
> atmel_usart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfefff200 (irq = 1) is a ATMEL_SERIAL
> atmel_usart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xfffb0000 (irq = 6) is a ATMEL_SERIAL
> atmel_usart.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0xfffb4000 (irq = 7) is a ATMEL_SERIAL
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
> usbmon: debugfs is not available
> at91_ohci at91_ohci: AT91 OHCI
> at91_ohci at91_ohci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> at91_ohci at91_ohci: irq 20, io mem 0x00500000
> usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> udc: at91_udc version 3 May 2006
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> TCP cubic registered
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
> RAMDISK: Loading 3932KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Freeing init memory: 100K
> Initializing random number generator... done.
> Starting network...
> ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
>
>
>
> Welcome to the Erik's uClibc development environment.
> uclibc login: root
>
> Mike
Mike,
Thanks,
The kernel command line came from "make at91sam9260dfc_defconfig", but 
it was the problem. 
When my kernel was expanded @ 20008000 by u-boot it overran the start of 
the root filesystem @ 20410000.  Additionally, my root fs was bigger 
than the ramdisk size (that's the 2nd parameter in the initrd command 
(3072K or 3145728)).  So now that I've fixed those and have u-boot w/ 
the proper addresses, I can boot linux.
Joe