Pine64+2GB unable to boot after attempted update, failure very early: efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=... size=32 status=7; RPi3 has no problem

Fri Jul 17 06:16:00 UTC 2020

[Trying again: I missed removing a type of character (escape)
beyond the [?25h removals. My choice of editor was not the
best for the context and it was not obvious that the
escapes were present.]

I'll mostly just send the text that has the
additional removals. The boot text with the error
messages then is:

U-Boot SPL 2020.07 (Jul 13 2020 - 12:12:14 +0000)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
NOTICE:  BL31: v2.3():
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 23:56:54, Apr 26 2020
NOTICE:  BL31: Detected Allwinner A64/H64/R18 SoC (1689)
NOTICE:  BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x4092b68, model: Pine64+
NOTICE:  PSCI: System suspend is unavailable
alloc space exhausted

U-Boot 2020.07 (Jul 13 2020 - 12:12:14 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A64 (SUN50I)
Model: Pine64+
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   mmc at 1c0f000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   phy interface7
eth0: ethernet at 1c30000
starting USB...
Bus usb at 1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb at 1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0
Bus usb at 1c1b000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb at 1c1b400: USB OHCI 1.0
scanning bus usb at 1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb at 1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb at 1c1b000 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb at 1c1b400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  2  1  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
38612 bytes read in 4 ms (9.2 MiB/s)
Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootaa64.efi
Scanning disk mmc at 1c0f000.blk...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
Scanning disk usb_mass_storage.lun0...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
Found 7 disks
7[r[999;999H[6n8BootOrder not defined
EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image
695648 bytes read in 33 ms (20.1 MiB/s)
[2J[1;1H[2J[1;1HConsoles: EFI console  

|/-\|/-\|    Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env

Setting currdev to disk0p1:

/-\|/-FreeBSD/arm64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1

   Command line arguments: loader.efi

   Image base: 0xb8e63000

   EFI version: 2.80

   EFI Firmware: Das U-Boot (rev 8224.1792)

   Console: comconsole (0)

   Load Path: /efi\boot\bootaa64.efi

   Load Device: /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/SD(0)/SD(0)/HD(1,0x01,0,0x403b,0x1ffe0)

Trying ESP: /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/SD(0)/SD(0)/HD(1,0x01,0,0x403b,0x1ffe0)

Setting currdev to disk0p1:

\|/-\|/-\|/-Trying: /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/SD(0)/SD(0)/HD(2,0x01,0,0x24400,0xe600000)

Setting currdev to disk0p2:

\|/-\|efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=123244224 size=32 status=7

/efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148608 size=32 status=7

-efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148545 size=32 status=7

efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148545 size=32 status=7

\efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148608 size=32 status=7

|efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148545 size=32 status=7

efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148545 size=32 status=7

/efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148608 size=32 status=7

-efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148545 size=32 status=7

efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=148545 size=32 status=7

ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory.

Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.

OK 

The contrasting RPi3B text near the area with first errors above:

\|/-\|/-\|/-Trying: /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/SD(0)/SD(0)/HD(2,0x01,0,0x24400,0xe600000)

Setting currdev to disk0p2:

\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

/-\|/-\Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

Loading /boot/device.hints

|/-\|/-\|/-\Loading /boot/loader.conf

|/-\Loading /boot/loader.conf.local

(I'll not list more.)

For reference:

# gpart show -p
=>       63  249737153    mmcsd0  MBR  (119G)
        63      16380            - free -  (8.0M)
     16443     131040  mmcsd0s1  fat32lba  [active]  (64M)
    147483        997            - free -  (499K)
    148480  241172480  mmcsd0s2  freebsd  (115G)
 241320960    8416256            - free -  (4.0G)

=>        0  241172480   mmcsd0s2  BSD  (115G)
         0  230686720  mmcsd0s2a  freebsd-ufs  (110G)
 230686720   10485760             - free -  (5.0G)

=>       40  468862048    da0  GPT  (224G)
        40       2008         - free -  (1.0M)
      2048  413138944  da0p1  freebsd-ufs  (197G)
 413140992    6291456  da0p2  freebsd-swap  (3.0G)
 419432448    6291456  da0p4  freebsd-swap  (3.0G)
 425723904   43138184         - free -  (21G)

# find /boot/efi/ -print | sort | more
/boot/efi/
/boot/efi/COPYING.linux
/boot/efi/EFI
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi
/boot/efi/LICENCE.broadcom
/boot/efi/System Volume Information
/boot/efi/System Volume Information/WPSettings.dat
/boot/efi/armstub8.bin
/boot/efi/bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb
/boot/efi/bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
/boot/efi/bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
/boot/efi/bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
/boot/efi/bootcode.bin
/boot/efi/config.txt
/boot/efi/dtb
/boot/efi/dtb/allwinner
/boot/efi/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-lts.dtb
/boot/efi/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb
/boot/efi/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb
/boot/efi/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinebook.dtb
/boot/efi/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-sopine-baseboard.dtb
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays/spigen-rpi3.dtbo
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays/sun50i-a64-opp.dtbo
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays/sun50i-a64-pwm.dtbo
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays/sun50i-a64-rpwm.dtbo
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays/sun50i-a64-spi0-spigen.dtbo
/boot/efi/dtb/overlays/sun50i-a64-timer.dtbo
/boot/efi/fixup.dat
/boot/efi/overlays
/boot/efi/overlays/disable-bt.dtbo
/boot/efi/overlays/mmc.dtbo
/boot/efi/overlays/pwm.dtbo
/boot/efi/start.elf
/boot/efi/u-boot.bin

(Where /boot/efi refers to /dev/mmcsd0s1 .)

I forgot to indicate: that the context is based
on head -r363123 FreeBSD and -r542111 ports.

===
Mark Millard
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