[ solved ] Failed to start on Utilite

[deniskaParticipant]

I’ve been using some development build of GeexBox from July 2015 on my Utilite Pro (1st generation) without seeing any problem.
Recently I decided to upgrade to some fresh build, but it fails to start by some reason. I tried 6 or 7 latest drops, from December to most recent version (Feb 12) – still no luck. And unfortunately I lost the tarbal with _stable_ version that I used before, so there is no way to restore everything back ? I’d really appreciate if you could help me with fixing this issue.

Symptoms are:
– There is nothing shown on TV
– from serial console I see that every boot it stops with the following lines:

sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
sdhci-esdhc-imx 2190000.usdhc: could not get ultra high speed state, work on normal mode
mmc4: no vqmmc regulator found
2190000.usdhc supply card-external-vcc not found, using dummy regulator
mmc4: SDHCI controller on 2190000.usdhc [2190000.usdhc] using ADMA
mmc0: no vqmmc regulator found
2198000.usdhc supply card-external-vcc not found, using dummy regulator
mmc4: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ci_hdrc
mmc0: SDHCI controller on 2198000.usdhc [2198000.usdhc] using ADMA
mxc_vdoa 21e4000.vdoa: i.MX Video Data Order Adapter(VDOA) driver probed
mxc_vpu 2040000.vpu: VPU initialized
HDMI-CEC initialized
mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming write-enable.
mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA08G 7.42 GiB
mmcblk0: p1 p2
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
random: nonblocking pool is initialized

Tried to restart the device many times
Tried to use another MMC card
Tried to disconnect all external devices and unplug built-in SSD
– no success

• This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by tomlohave.

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

Hi Deniska,

I have this board (utilite pro with embedded ssd)
I’m testing the last image (just be patient)

Cheers !

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

Just tested the latest snapshot : no problem …

So It’s difficult to say where is your problem

[deniskaParticipant]

Hi tomlohave,

Thank you for quick response!

Well, if it works on another board then it might be related with some HW problems with my device ?
Or it could be caused by a very old bootloader running on my board (U-Boot 2009.08) – I cannot upgrade it because it was locked on factory.

By the way, do you know if there is a way to retreive some old development snapshots? Some old build from July 2015 worked properly on my board, so I’d give it a try, just in case.

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

hum, you can try to update u-boot using our cm-fx6-bootloader-update package, or the regular one provided by computlab …

– from our package : I need latest date your remember with a working snapshot, (then I can rebuild it) or
– from computlab, install their os (ubuntu ?) , and upgrade your bootloader, then you can try our snapshot.

Cheers !

[deniskaParticipant]

It was devel-20150507-r7ff0910 that worked for me stable for more than year. I would really appreciate if you could re-build this image, so that I could restore everything back.

As for u-boot upgrade, I cannot do it because secure boot feature is turned on in my board and u-boot image must be signed off with a correct certificate, which I don’t have ? So I have to use this particular bootloader version provided by a vendor.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 4 weeks ago by deniska.
• This reply was modified 1 month, 4 weeks ago by deniska.

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

before attempting a build from 7ff0910, did you try exactly this :
https://compulab.co.il/workspace/mediawiki/index.php5/CM-FX6:_U-Boot:_Firmware_Update

of course, you can use our cm-fx6-firmware file present in /boot (first partition of sdcard)

[deniskaParticipant]

Yes, I did, and my board doesn’t boot with this firmware.
Let me explain it a bit – there is a special feature in iMX SoC – High Assurance Boot. Once enabled, it allows to boot only bootloaders which are signed with specific certificate. I received this board from a vendor, which enabled this feature and provided their signed bootloader. Another firmware, like the one from Compulab, does not have this signature, so fails to start.
I would normally need to sign-off the new bootloader image with the certificate, but I just don’t have it, and a vendor refuses to provide it.

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

hum, ok, after a little research on the net, it seems, once locked, it’s irreversible. Great feature !
I ‘m starting the build. Then, maybe I can create a separate branch for your device with everything up to date only kernel and u-boot remaining. But I’m not sure it works.

Cheers !

[deniskaParticipant]

Thank you for your support!
Please don’t spend too much efforts for this. I need just this development build, as it was running okay for quite a long for me and I can continue using it.
There were actually no need to upgrade to a recent build, I just was trying to see if there was anything new.

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

well, many packages were updated, with many fixes. That’s why it’s maybe possible to upgrade everything , keeping u-boot and kernel at the same version. I’m building it but, I have disable rtorrent package (problem with a patch), do you need it ?

[deniskaParticipant]

I don’t use rtorrent, so it won’t be a problem

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

#########################################################################
##
## Build completed successfully !!
##  + Flavour:      GeeXboX
##  + Version:      devel-20170301-r7ff0910
##  + Architecture: arm
##  + Platform:     imx6
##  + Board:        utilite
##
## Binary Location: binaries/binaries.utilite
##
#########################################################################

Uploading in progress, be patient
(here : http://download.geexbox.org/utilite/utilite-locked/ )

Cheers !

[tomlohaveKeymaster]

Done.

[deniskaParticipant]

Thank you! Trying it right now

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