Reinstall 22.01 firmware on Netgate 1100 failed
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Hello,
I tried to reinstall the 22.01 firmware on several 1100 and I get the following error: 'ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: invalid argument.'
Console output:U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.2-g6a6581a-dirty (Nov 22 2018 - 10:40:49 -0200) Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin CPU @ 1200 [MHz] L2 @ 800 [MHz] TClock @ 200 [MHz] DDR @ 750 [MHz] DRAM: 1 GiB U-Boot DT blob at : 000000003f716298 Comphy-0: USB3 5 Gbps Comphy-1: PEX0 2.5 Gbps Comphy-2: SATA0 6 Gbps SATA link 0 timeout. AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs PCIE-0: Link down MMC: sdhci@d0000: 0, sdhci@d8000: 1 SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB Net: eth0: neta@30000 [PRIME] Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Marvell>> run usbrecovery ** First descriptor is NOT a primary desc on 1:1 ** ** First descriptor is NOT a primary desc on 1:1 ** switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device MMC erase: dev # 1, block # 0, count 4194304 ... 4194304 blocks erased: OK starting USB... USB0: Register 2000104 NbrPorts 2 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.00 USB1: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found reading efi/boot/bootaa64.efi 2097152 bytes read in 95 ms (21.1 MiB/s) reading armada-3720-sg1100.dtb 12725 bytes read in 20 ms (621.1 KiB/s) ## Starting EFI application at 05000000 ... Card did not respond to voltage select! mmc_init: -95, time 41 Scanning disk sdhci@d8000.blk... Scanning disk usb_mass_storage.lun0... Found 5 disks Consoles: EFI console Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 Command line arguments: loader.efi Image base: 0x5000000 EFI version: 2.05 EFI Firmware: Das U-boot (rev 0.00) Console: efi (0x1000) Load Path: bootefi Load Device: bootefi ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: invalid argument. Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OKI also wonder why the 'pfSense-plus-Netgate-1100-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz' file size is 1.1 GB when usually the pfSense firmware is around 400 MB.
Has anyone seen the same issue ?
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@jch
Two observations.
Firstly, this looks similar to issue discussed in
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169868/22-01-reinstall-goes-wrong
for which no solution has been posted.
Secondly, I today requested 22.01 firmware for my SG-1100, and I received an image, different name to the one you mention, of
pfSense-plus-compat-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz
I am going to hold off install of 22.01 until I have more clarity. -
Thank you Anthony,
Sorry I didn't see that the problem is already discuss, indeed it is the same issue
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The problem is now understood. The cause is that the old uboot version you have there does not support booting from ZFS.
The installer should automatically update uboot when you select write to eMMC if it detects an old version but for some reason has not on yours.
In the linked thread the reason for that is that the uboot version (Nov 1st 2018) was not recognised by the installer but the version you have (Nov 22nd 2018) is known. It should have updated.
So the first thing I would do here is just try installing again and see if it throws an error if it doesn't update uboot.
If it still fails then reinstall as UFS, which will boot fine, and then open a support ticket with us:
https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request
Our support guys can walk you through updating uboot manually from there and then you can install ZFS again if you wish.Steve
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@stephenw10 are you able to clarify why @jch and I appear to have different installation image files:
'pfSense-plus-Netgate-1100-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz'
'pfSense-plus-compat-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz' -
Ah, OK. That explains why your uboot didn't update, you would not have got that far with that image.
You need to use the compat image when booting the older uboot image so you should have:
pfSense-plus-compat-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gzContact support if you don't have it.
The reason the image is much larger is that it has images for both ZFS and UFS installs.
Steve
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Hello Steve,
Thanks for your explanation, could you please upload 'pfSense-plus-compat-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz' on partner area (on NETGATE 1100 Firmware Images directory) ?
Jean-Charles
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@jch That should be up there now. Let me know if you're unable to access it.
Steve
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@stephenw10
All is ok, thank you very much :) -
@stephenw10
I finally got round to attempting switch to ZFS using:
pfSense-plus-compat-recovery-22.01-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz
I have made two attempts to reinstall my SG-1100. First time I entered "ZFS" at the selection of filesystem prompt, second time simply <CR>.
Both times the install completed, but on powercycle (reboot) I end up at:ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: invalid argument.
Third attempt I reinstalled as "UFS", which seems to reboot sucessfully (although I didn't bother proceeding to do a Web login, reconfigure, ...)
I still wish to move to ZFS, but I don't have a support contract. Is there a path forward?
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@anthonys
To get past that error you have to install as UFS first then force-update/verify the U-Boot firmware (see below) and then you can reinstall as ZFS./usr/local/share/u-boot/1100/u-boot-update.sh -f
You can run that through the console shell (option 8) or the Command Prompt on the GUI (Diagnostics -> Command Prompt).
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@rcoleman-netgate Running the force-update has done the trick. The SG-1100 is now running 22.01 using ZFS.
Thankyou.
