[U-Boot] Problems with creating an UBIFS partition with uboot

[Karl Krach]

Hello all,

I ve googled a lot and read many mailing list entries, but got stuck now with the following problem:

=>  ubifsmount rootfs
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (0 but expected 6)
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 0:0
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!

1) I ve erased my nand-partition with 'nand erase'
2) I ve created a UBI partition with 'ubi part'
3) I ve uploaded my UBI image with 'tftp'
4) I ve created an volume with 'ubi create'
5) I ve written the image to the volume with 'ubi write'
6) I wanted to mount the volume
     -->  and failed

INFO: I was able to mount a UBI image, which I ve created on the device, when booting from NFS. So I guess that the UBI image is OK.

Was did I wrong?

Thanks a lot,
Charly





Here is the complete history:

I ve created an UBI image from an UBIFS file with the following cmd:

     ubinize -orootfs.ubi.img -m2048 -O512 -p128KiB ubinize.cfg

and this ubinize.cfg

     [ubifs]
     mode=ubi
     image=rootfs.ubifs
     vol_id=0
     vol_size=512MiB
     vol_type=dynamic
     vol_name=rootfs
     vol_flags=autoresize


=>  setenv mtdids nor0=fc000000.flash,nand0=mpc5121.nand


=>  setenv mtdparts 'mtdparts=fc000000.flash:256k(protected),60m(filesystem),2560k(kernel),256k(device-tree),1024k(u-boot);mpc5121.nand:-(ubi-data)'


=>  mtdparts

device nor0<fc000000.flash>, # parts = 5
  #: name                size            offset          mask_flags
  0: protected           0x00040000      0x00000000      0
  1: filesystem          0x03c00000      0x00040000      0
  2: kernel              0x00280000      0x03c40000      0
  3: device-tree         0x00040000      0x03ec0000      0
  4: u-boot              0x00100000      0x03f00000      0

device nand0<mpc5121.nand>, # parts = 1
  #: name                size            offset          mask_flags
  0: ubi-data            0x20000000      0x00000000      0

active partition: nor0,0 - (protected) 0x00040000 @ 0x00000000

defaults:
mtdids  : nor0=fc000000.flash,nand0=mpc5121.nand
mtdparts:
mtdparts=fc000000.flash:43776k(user),16m(rootfs),4m(kernel),256k(dtb),1m(u-boot);mpc5121.nand:-(data)


=>  nand erase ${start of ubi-data} ${size of ubi-data}
Skipping bad block at  0x1ffc0000
Skipping bad block at  0x1ffe0000

OK


=>  ubi part ubi-data
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
0x000000000000-0x000020000000 : "mtd=0"
UBI: attaching mtd3 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size:    129024 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    2048
UBI: sub-page size:              512
UBI: VID header offset:          512 (aligned 512)
UBI: data offset:                2048
UBI: empty MTD device detected
UBI: create volume table (copy #1)
UBI: create volume table (copy #2)
UBI: attached mtd3 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name:            "mtd=0"
UBI: MTD device size:            512 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs:        4064
UBI: number of bad PEBs:         32
UBI: max. allowed volumes:       128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold:    4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes:     0
UBI: available PEBs:             4020
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 44
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 0/0


=>  ubifsmount ubi-data
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:ubi-data", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:ubi-data'!


=>  ubifsmount rootfs
UBIFS error (pid 0): mount_ubifs: can't format empty UBI volume: read-only mount
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!


=>  tftp rootfs.ubi.img
Using FEC ETHERNET device
TFTP from server 10.1.1.83; our IP address is 10.1.1.84
Filename 'rootfs.ubi.img'.
Load address: 0x400000
Loading:
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done
Bytes transferred = 18219008 (1160000 hex)


=>  printenv
[...]
filesize=1160000
fileaddr=400000
[...]


=>  ubi create rootfs
Creating dynamic volume rootfs of size 518676480


=>  ubi write ${fileaddr} rootfs ${filesize}
Volume "rootfs" found at volume id 0


=>  ubifsmount rootfs
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (0 but expected 6)
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 0:0
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!


=>  nand write ${fileaddr} ubi-data ${filesize}

NAND write: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x1160000
Skip bad block 0x00040000
Skip bad block 0x00580000
Skip bad block 0x005a0000
Skip bad block 0x00640000
Skip bad block 0x00740000
  18219008 bytes written: OK


=>  ubifsmount rootfs
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (0 but expected 6)
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 0:0
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!