[LEDE-DEV] Bad NAND my sysupgrade / help

[Denis Periša]

Anyhow, I managed to do it.
I booted new LEDE iniramfs kernel..
Then did ubiformat, ubiattach, ubimkvol on mtd6 ONLY, I labeled it "rootfs"
mounted it, transfered rootfs.tar.gz and extracted..
then booted initramfs kernel of old openwrt and formatted mtd5 ONLY
and only block device like mtd erase kernel
then I mounted kernel mtdblock5 , transfered -lzma.elf kernel and rebooted.
viola, boots with lot of nand errors, but I see it working good.

so .. if I could help someone.. here it is.!
I hope there can be some nand error checking in sysupgrade!
sysupgrade says it flashed success but bootloader says there is no kernel.
Other device - no problem.


On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Denis Periša <denis at denis.in> wrote:
> root at RECOVERY:/# ubinfo /dev/ubi1
> ubi1
> Volumes count:                           0
> Logical eraseblock size:                 258048 bytes, 252.0 KiB
> Total amount of logical eraseblocks:     15 (3870720 bytes, 3.7 MiB)
> Amount of available logical eraseblocks: 0 (0 bytes)
> Maximum count of volumes                 128
> Count of bad physical eraseblocks:       0
> Count of reserved physical eraseblocks:  11
> Current maximum erase counter value:     0
> Minimum input/output unit size:          2048 bytes
> Character device major/minor:            253:0
>
> seems ubifs cannot find any space available
> I tried old openwrt , mounted /dev/mtdblock5 and got about 70% free
> space but only afer nand format from routerboot. Rest is maked bad and
> could be bad indeed..
> but problem remains.. altho I have enough to flash kernel, ubi does
> not see that free space.
>
> Any help from anyone is much appritiated.
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Denis Periša <denis at denis.in> wrote:
>> Hi, Thanx for input ;)
>> it's routerboard 433AH and 435G (rb433AH/435G)
>> I've found out like `nand scrub` .. haven't tried it yet as I don't
>> have nand tools compiled but will. But also I'm afraid it's not it.
>> It is bug.. I had few new RB435G ordered for citiy wireless and they
>> went from 0 to 100% bad during flash.. now shows 100% usage on kernel
>> partition..
>> however rootfs partition is intact by it. hm.
>> no u-boot however , RooterBoot or something like it driving it.. would
>> be nice to change it but I lack that kind of time to investigate it.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Alberto Bursi
>> <bobafetthotmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/31/2018 01:56 PM, Denis Periša wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I got this once before but sent it on RMA.
>>>>
>>>> anyhow, I did some flashing from jffs2 to ubifs and initramfs kernel
>>>> image loaded up fine, but on sysupgrade it marked all my kernel
>>>> filesystem as bad nand.. 0 space left. I know for sure this is just
>>>> fake mark as I copied kernel just before in it and It happended before
>>>> to me.
>>>>
>>>> ANY , ANY chance there is some nand tool that can re-check those
>>>> blocks and recover it to zero state?
>>>>
>>>> thank you!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've seen commands in uboot (popular bootloader) that can reset nand bad
>>> blocks, you would need to connect to serial console by soldering pins to the
>>> device's board and then using a TTL-USB dongle to connect your PC to it.
>>>
>>> But if it keeps doing that it might be a bug in the OpenWrt firmware (that
>>> can't use the NAND properly and then marks it as bad).
>>>
>>> Would be useful to state what is your device.
>>>
>>> -Alberto
>>>
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