S4810-ON is unable to boot | no

Hello,

It sounds like you'll need to replace the switch. If you're able to get into ONIE (F2 or Del), then you can reinstall the OS, but based on your mention of the BIOS, it may not work out. 

I tried again and this time it gave me shells. Sorry, maybe serial cable issue. 

It gave me two shells. 1 shell if I interrupt the boot then it took me to shell, output as follows.

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U-Boot 2009.11(F10 Dev) (Jun 07 2011 - 01:20:37)
Built by build at tools-sjc-01 on Tue Jun 7 1:20:32 2011
S4810 Boot selector Label 1.2.0.2

CPU0: P2020E, Version: 2.1, (0x80ea0021)
Core: E500, Version: 5.1, (0x80211051)
Clock Configuration:
CPU0:1200 MHz, CPU1:1200 MHz,
CCB:600 MHz,
DDR:396 MHz (792 MT/s data rate) (Asynchronous), LBC:37.500 MHz
L1: D-cache 32 kB enabled
I-cache 32 kB enabled
Board: S4810 Force10 Networks
Cpld: S4810 cpld Rev 7
Cpld: Board Revision 2
I2C: ready
DRAM: Initializing.... DDR: 2 GB (DDR3, 64-bit, CL=6, ECC off)
FLASH: 128 MB
L2: 512 KB enabled
MMC: FSL_ESDHC: 0
CPLD: HW Watchdog enabled
eTSEC2 is in sgmii mode.
eTSEC3 is in sgmii mode.

PCIE1 used as Root Complex (base addr e000a000)
Scanning PCI bus 01
01 00 14e4 b845 0200 00
PCIE1 on bus 00 - 01

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: eTSEC3
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
=>
=>

=> version

U-Boot 2009.11(F10 Dev) (Jun 07 2011 - 01:20:37)
Built by build at tools-sjc-01 on Tue Jun 7 1:20:32 2011
S4810 Boot selector Label 1.2.0.2

If i let him to autoboot, then i gave me the following output. Sorry for very long output. 

U-Boot 2009.11(F10 Dev) (Jun 07 2011 - 01:20:37)
Built by build at tools-sjc-01 on Tue Jun 7 1:20:32 2011
S4810 Boot selector Label 1.2.0.2

CPU0: P2020E, Version: 2.1, (0x80ea0021)
Core: E500, Version: 5.1, (0x80211051)
Clock Configuration:
CPU0:1200 MHz, CPU1:1200 MHz,
CCB:600 MHz,
DDR:396 MHz (792 MT/s data rate) (Asynchronous), LBC:37.500 MHz
L1: D-cache 32 kB enabled
I-cache 32 kB enabled
Board: S4810 Force10 Networks
Cpld: S4810 cpld Rev 7
Cpld: Board Revision 2
I2C: ready
DRAM: Initializing.... DDR: 2 GB (DDR3, 64-bit, CL=6, ECC off)
FLASH: 128 MB
L2: 512 KB enabled
MMC: FSL_ESDHC: 0
CPLD: HW Watchdog enabled
eTSEC2 is in sgmii mode.
eTSEC3 is in sgmii mode.

PCIE1 used as Root Complex (base addr e000a000)
Scanning PCI bus 01
01 00 14e4 b845 0200 00
PCIE1 on bus 00 - 01

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: eTSEC3
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Booting primary bootline....
f8000000
WARNING: adjusting available memory to 30000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at f80400f0 ...
Image Name: netbsd
Image Type: PowerPC NetBSD Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 7416792 Bytes = 7.1 MB
Load Address: 00100040
Entry Point: 00100040
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
CPLD: HW Watchdog disabled
## Transferring control to NetBSD stage-2 loader (at address 00100040) ...

Kernel core dump info will be dumped @ 0x84000

Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Force10 Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Force10 Release 8.3.7.0
NetBSD 1.6.1 (S4810) #0: Thu Dec 16 11:56:36 PST 2010
build@build-sjc-74:/work/build/buildSpaces/build19/E8-3-7/SW-NetBSD/usr/src/sys/arch/bacardi/compile/S4810
Model: Freescale Semiconductor CDS
total memory = 2048 MB
avail memory = 1960 MB
using 2000 buffers containing 8000 KB of memory
boot device:
root on md0a dumps on md0b
inittodr: rtc not present - CHECK AND RESET THE DATE.
root file system type: ffs
ld0 at sdmmc0: SD MID: 0x74 OID: 0x4a45 S/N: 0

ld0: 7832 MB, 3978 cyl, 64 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 16039936 sectors
ignoring SIGQUIT SIGTSTP and SIGINFO

Entering Jumpstart app:
Initializing runtime directories
Reading Release Image at 0x40000 Part: A
add host 192.168.2.25: gateway 127.0.0.1
add net 192.168.2.25: gateway 192.168.2.25
add net 0.0.0.0: gateway 0.0.0.0: Network is unreachable
Reading Release Image at 0x40000 Part: A
Size of ReleaseImage is 22571135 Bytes

RELEASE IMAGE HEADER DATA :
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Release Image SW Image Count : 3
Release Image Major Version : 8
Release Image Minor Version : 3
Release Image Maint Version : 7
Release Image Patch Version : 0
Release Image Header Size : 140
Release Image Data Size : 22570995
Release Image Platform Type : 8
Release Image Product Name : FTOS-SE
Release Image Checksum Value : 0x142cb3
Release Image Header Checksum: 0xdaecca33
Release Image Create Year : 2010
Release Image Create Month : 12
Release Image Create Date : 16
Release Image Create Hour : 12
Release Image Create Minute : 51
Release Image Create Second : 10

SOFTWARE IMAGE HEADER DATA :
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Software Image[1] Major Version : 8
Software Image[1] Minor Version : 3
Software Image[1] Maint Version : 7
Software Image[1] Patch Version : 0
Software Image[1] Image type : 2
Software Image[1] Header Size : 100
Software Image[1] Img Data Size : 7416872
Software Image[1] Img Orig Size : 7416872
Software Image[1] Family Code : cp
Software Image[1] Img file Name : CPRPLP-RPM-AP-8.3.7.0.bin
Software Image[1] Hdr Checksum : 0x9f7e33fe
Software Image[1] Data Checksum : 0xc00d3427

SOFTWARE IMAGE HEADER DATA :
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Software Image[2] Major Version : 8
Software Image[2] Minor Version : 3
Software Image[2] Maint Version : 7
Software Image[2] Patch Version : 0
Software Image[2] Image type : 2
Software Image[2] Header Size : 100
Software Image[2] Img Data Size : 10601636
Software Image[2] Img Orig Size : 29911056
Software Image[2] Family Code : nbsdpcprplp
Software Image[2] Img file Name : NBSDPCPRPLP-RPM-AP-8.3.7.0.bin
Software Image[2] Hdr Checksum : 0xf2d7ef37
Software Image[2] Data Checksum : 0x84aec9b6

SOFTWARE IMAGE HEADER DATA :
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Software Image[3] Major Version : 8
Software Image[3] Minor Version : 3
Software Image[3] Maint Version : 7
Software Image[3] Patch Version : 0
Software Image[3] Image type : 2
Software Image[3] Header Size : 100
Software Image[3] Img Data Size : 4552187
Software Image[3] Img Orig Size : 14213136
Software Image[3] Family Code : nbsdlibcp
Software Image[3] Img file Name : NBSDLIBCP-RPM-AP-8.3.7.0.bin
Software Image[3] Hdr Checksum : 0xc1641f46
Software Image[3] Data Checksum : 0x481dc2a6
delete host 192.168.2.25: gateway 127.0.0.1
delete net 192.168.2.25: gateway 192.168.2.25
delete net 0.0.0.0: gateway 0.0.0.0: not in table
Error loading FTOS release file. Aborting.
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The second shell doesn't let me play with it so I tried 1 shell. it gave me the boot option. I tried to boot the image over TFTP using tftpboot and f10boot. But it gave me the following output. Again sorry for long output. 

=> f10boot tftp://192.168.2.254/FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin
=> boot
Enet starting in 1000BT/FD
Speed: 1000, full duplex
Using eTSEC3 device
TFTP from server 192.168.2.254; our IP address is 192.168.2.25
Filename 'FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin'.
Load address: 0x6400000
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done
Bytes transferred = 43314764 (294ee4c hex)
WARNING: adjusting available memory to 30000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 064000f0 ...
Image Name: netbsd
Image Type: PowerPC NetBSD Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 13484962 Bytes = 12.9 MB
Load Address: 00100040
Entry Point: 00100040
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
CPLD: HW Watchdog disabled
## Transferring control to NetBSD stage-2 loader (at address 00100040) ...
initppc(0x100040, 0x447f000, 0x7df6ffb0, 0x0, 0x7ffacdec, 0x7ffacdec) pixis_spd=0xff sysclk=7 pixis_sysclk=166666667 porpllsr=0x4444180c sys_clk=100000000 comcnfreq=600000000 openpic-reset(ctpr=15) cache(DC=32KB/32,IC=32KB/32) bptr=0 memprobe=2048MB e500_tlbinit(0x447f000,2048MB) hid0=0x80004080/0x80804080 hid1=0x44003040 pordevsr=0x83783c40 devdisr=0x6080000 msgbuf=0x7fffe000 exception_init=0x10ec674 uvm_page_physload(0x447f,0x7fffd,0x447f,0x7fffd,0) kern_segtab=0x447f000powerpc_fixup_stubs: 1645 fixups done in 4564430 cycles
Loaded initial symtab at 0x183aa54, strtab at 0x1932c44, # entries 63421
initppc done!
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Dell Networking OS Release 9.10(0.1P3)
NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (MPC4810) #0: Tue Jun 14 16:31:50 PDT 2016
total memory = 2048 MB
avail memory = 1940 MB
mainbus0 (root)
cpunode0 at mainbus0 node 0
cpunode0: 512KB/32B 8-banked 8-way unified L2 cache
cpu0 at cpunode0 instance 1
cpu0: 1.20 GHz P2020E 2.1 with an e500v2 5.1 core, ID 0 (Primary)
cpu0: 32KB/32B 8-way L1 data cache
cpu0: 32KB/32B 8-way L1 instruction cache
cpu0: 2 TLBs, 3 concurrent 8-bit PIDs (256 total)
cpu0: tlb0: 512 fixed-size (4KB) 4-way set associative entries
cpu0: tlb1: 16 variable-size (4KB..4GB) fully associative entries
cpu1 at cpunode0 instance 2
cpu1: disabled (uniprocessor kernel)
obio0 at cpunode0: 2 of 8 ports enabled
obio0: cs0: 128MB 16-bit GPCM region at 0xf8000000
obio0: cs3: 32KB 8-bit GPCM region at 0xefdf0000
bootflash0 at obio0 cs 0 addr 0xf8000000 size 0x8000000Flash Start Base-address f324f000

flash TESTING starts
: Virt addr: 0xf324f000: STRATA-P33 128MB bootflash
cpld0 at obio0 cs 3 addr 0xefdf0000 size 0x8000wdog at cpunode0 not configured
duart0 at cpunode0: 2 ports
com0 at duart0 port 1: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console
com1 at duart0 port 2: ns16550a, working fifo
duart0: interrupting on irq 26
tsec0 at cpunode0 instance 1: mac-address unknown
tsec at cpunode0 instance 2 not configured
tsec2 at cpunode0 instance 3 phy 1

tsec2: Ethernet address 00:01:e8:8b:3d:36
brgphy0 at tsec2 phy 1: BCM5461 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 1
brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
mpc_gpio0 at cpunode0
gpio: interrupting on LVL31 (gpio)
l2ecc0 at cpunode0 interrupting on irq 0
ddrc0 at cpunode0: ECC disabled
pq3pcie0 at cpunode0 instance 1: PCI-Express x2 controller
pci0 at pq3pcie0 bus 0
ppb0 at pci0: Freescale Semiconductor product 0x0070 (rev. 0x21)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
nbsd_kbde0 at pci1: BCM56845 Trident Switch ASIC, rev. 5
PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG VALUE :1048582
BCM device 47173 and revision 5
THIS IS 64 BIT ADDR SPACE
PCI_BAR_LOW :80000004 -- MEMORY MAPPED PCI_BAR_HIGH:0
Address : 0x80000004 Address1 : 0x00000000
Mask : 0xfffc0004 Mask1 : 0xffffffff
PCI BUS HANDLE:80000000 TAG:0xf317d218 ADDR:80000000 SIZE:40000
MEM TAG OF BSC 0xf317d218 VADDR PTR: (0x80000000)
INT REG:00000100

enter :kbde_dmamem_alloc
kva=0xfb263000/0x2000000,map=0xe3044120,nsegs=1,pa=8000000/2000000
DMA VBASE:0xfb263000 DMA PBASE:8000000
pcie at cpunode0 instance 2 not configured
pcie at cpunode0 instance 3 not configured
diic0 at cpunode0: 2 ports
iic0 at diic0: I2C bus
i2cctl0 at iic0
strtc0 at iic0 addr 0x68 : M41ST84 Real-time Clock/NVRAM
s2eeprom0 at iic0 addr 0x52 : eeprom self s2eeprom0 parent iic0 tag 0xf3118810 type 0x0
s2eeprom1 at iic0 addr 0x54 : eeprom self s2eeprom1 parent iic0 tag 0xf3118810 type 0x0
Caching Technique enabled and allocated Memory=400
s2eeprom1: Device
s2eeprom5 at iic0 addr 0x50 : eeprom self s2eeprom5 parent iic0 tag 0xf3118810 type 0x0
Caching Technique enabled and allocated Memory=400
s2eeprom5: Device
iic1 at diic0: I2C bus
i2cctl1 at iic1
tmp75x0 at iic1 addr 0x49 tmp75x1 at iic1 addr 0x4a tmp75x2 at iic1 addr 0x4d tmp75x3 at iic1 addr 0x4c s2eeprom2 at iic1 addr 0x54 : eeprom self s2eeprom2 parent iic1 tag 0xf311886c type 0x0
Caching Technique enabled and allocated Memory=400
s2eeprom2: Device
s2eeprom3 at iic1 addr 0x50 : eeprom self s2eeprom3 parent iic1 tag 0xf311886c type 0x0
Caching Technique enabled and allocated Memory=400
s2eeprom3: Device
max6651x0 at iic1 addr 0x48 max6651x1 at iic1 addr 0x4b max6651x2 at iic1 addr 0x1b max6651x3 at iic1 addr 0x1f ltc4215x0 at iic1 addr 0x42 ltc4215x1 at iic1 addr 0x40 smb309x0 at iic1 addr 0x20 smb309x: addr: 0x20
ehci0 at cpunode0 instance 1: USB controller
spi at cpunode0 not configured
sdhc0 at cpunode0: SDHC controller (DMA enabled)
sdhc0: interrupting on irq 56
sdhc0: SD Host Specification 2.0, rev.1
sdhc0: using DMA transfer
sdmmc0 at sdhc0 slot 0
sdmmc0: attach card
ld0 at sdmmc0mid=0x74 oid=0x4a45 pnm="SD " rev=0x10 psn=0x00000000 mdt=0c2
:
ld0: 7832 MB, 3978 cyl, 64 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 16039936 sectors
ld0: 4-bit width, bus clock 25.000 MHz
nbsd_ubde pseudo-device
bcnp pseudo-device
bcmw pseudo-device
bcmwstk pseudo-device
bcmws pseudo-device
Too many symbols for tree, skipping 30654 symbols
ust pseudo device
sierradiag as pseudo-device
crshntfy pseudo-device
bfd pseudo-device
bshell pseudo-device
f10logger as pseudo-device getting attached
sfpx pseudo-device
f10mc pseudo-device
platform pseudo-device
root on md0a dumps on md0b
mountroot: trying ffs...
root file system type: ffs
WARNING: clock gained 1595 days
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
ignoring SIGQUIT SIGTSTP and SIGINFO
add net 127.0.0.0: gateway 127.0.0.1
add host 192.168.2.25: gateway 127.0.0.1
add net 192.168.2.25: gateway 192.168.2.25
add net 0.0.0.0: gateway 0.0.0.0: Network is unreachable
tftp 192.168.2.254
mode binary
blksize 1468
get FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin /force10/rd/tgtimg/FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin
tftp: sendto: Can't assign requested address
tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> Cp boot: ExtractReleaseHdr failed: err = 0
boot image: detect corrupted image header
tftp 192.168.2.254
mode binary
blksize 1468
get FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin /force10/rd/tgtimg/FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin
tftp: sendto: Can't assign requested address
tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> Cp boot: ExtractReleaseHdr failed: err = 9
boot image: detect corrupted image header
tftp 192.168.2.254
mode binary
blksize 1468
get FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin /force10/rd/tgtimg/FTOS-SE-9.10.0.1P3.bin
tftp: sendto: Can't assign requested address
tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> Cp boot: ExtractReleaseHdr failed: err = 9
boot image: detect corrupted image header
syncing disks... done
unmounting file systems...
unmounting /usr (mfs:35)...
unmounting /force10 (mfs:27)...
unmounting /f10 (mfs:21)...
unmounting /kern (kernfs)...
unmounting / (/dev/md0a)... done
rebooting
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It seems like image is corrupt but i tried another image same error. 

Note: This image is download from force10network under s4810 section..

your consideration, time, and Help are much appreciated.

Thanks you!

Is the switch under warranty? It looks like there could be a ram issue that is causing the corruption.

You are going to need to replace the switch then.

No there isn’t any replaceable parts for this. Full replacement is the only option.

Hi, for anyone else stuck with an ONIE based S4810-ON with no OS to boot into, I've put together a guide to cross-flash it to a regular S4810P running full FTOS: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/convert-an-onie-s4810-on-to-an-ftos-s4810p.44540/