Booting Failure Due To File System Error - Samsung WEC8500 Maintenance Manual

WEC8500/8050 Maintenance Manual
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Booting failure due to file system error

This occurs if an error occurs in the booting partition installed on the disk or in the file
system while the APC is booting which leads to the kernel loading failure.
Symptoms
The 'system kernel loading fail (status: 1)' log is displayed during booting process and the
system restarts 3 times. Then, the system goes to the shell environment of the boot loader.
##### BOOTING START #####
Looking for valid bootloader image....
(Omitted)
boot partition: 1
Enter password to stop autoboot.
** Bad partition 1 **
system kernel loading fail (status: 1)
(Omitted - Retry the same process for three times when the board is
reset)
boot partition: 1
Enter password to stop autoboot.
** Bad partition 1 **
system kernel loading fail (status: 1)
Fail from partion 1 now we boot from partition:2
Setting boot partition to: 2
Writing tuple type 61441 to addr: 0x40
** Bad partition 2 **
Error: Bad gzipped data
argv[2]: coremask=0xff
argv[3]: endbootargs
## No elf image at address 0x20700000
system kernel loading fail (status: 2)
bootoctlinux: fail to boot up linux kernel (rcode: 1)
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Bootloader failed to load kernel and reset the system to recover from
fault.
Check your system non-volatile storage device and package images.
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