How to fix and boot Kali Linux on the SolidRun CuBox-i4Pro

In this tutorial we'll fix U-Boot on default Kali Linux 2018.4 on the SolidRun Cubox-i4Pro.

How to fix and boot Kali Linux on the SolidRun CuBox-i4Pro

If you tried to burn and run the Kali image that can be downloaded from the Offensive Security website, probably you ended up in a non bootable image.

U-Boot SPL 2018.05+dfsg-1 (May 10 2018 - 20:24:57 +0000)
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2018.05+dfsg-1 (May 10 2018 - 20:24:57 +0000)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 996 MHz (running at 792 MHz)
CPU:   Extended Commercial temperature grade (-20C to 105C) at 19C
Reset cause: POR
Board: MX6 Cubox-i
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Failed (-5)
No panel detected: default to HDMI
Display: HDMI (1024x768)
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   FEC
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part
No port device detected!

Device 0: Model:  Firm:  Ser#:
            Type: Hard Disk
            Capacity: not available
... is now current device
timeout exit!
timeout exit!
timeout exit!
timeout exit!
timeout exit!
timeout exit!

This is how you can fix it.

First thing, go here and download the image. Burn it into a nice fast SDCard as you can read in the tutorial. In my own system, SDCard is located at /dev/sdb, adjust accordingly to your settings.

xzcat kali-linux-2018.4-cuboxi.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=512k

Now mount the image wherever you like and chroot into it. You'll should be able to browse it:

root@kali:/# ll
total 84K
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:50 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 ott 17 19:08 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:56 boot
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4,0K ott 17 19:08 dev
drwxr-xr-x 109 root root 4,0K feb 11 18:04 etc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K set 12 08:36 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   34 feb 11 11:50 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-kali1-armmp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   34 ott 17 19:24 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-kali2-armmp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 ott 17 19:08 lib -> usr/lib
drwx------   2 root root  16K ott 17 19:39 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K ott 17 19:08 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K ott 17 19:08 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4,0K feb 11 12:23 opt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K set 12 08:36 proc
drwx------   9 root root 4,0K feb 11 17:43 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K set 12 08:36 run
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    8 ott 17 19:08 sbin -> usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K ott 17 19:08 srv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K set 12 08:36 sys
drwxrwxrwt  10 root root 4,0K feb 11 19:42 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4,0K ott 17 19:08 usr
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4,0K ott 17 19:23 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   31 feb 11 11:50 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-kali1-armmp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   31 ott 17 19:24 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-kali2-armmp
root@kali:/# 

Go into the /boot directory, create a symlink named dtbs that point to /usr/lib/linux-image-$(uname -r), in my case I'm with the 4.19.0 kernel version. Verify in you're own Kali version.

Also, create the extlinux directory and, inside of it, create a file named extlinux.conf. So, right now, you should be in this scenario.

root@kali:/boot# ll
total 53M
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:50 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 203K ott  9 14:47 config-4.18.0-kali2-armmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 205K gen  3 08:34 config-4.19.0-kali1-armmp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   40 feb 11 11:56 dtbs -> /usr/lib/linux-image-4.19.0-kali1-armmp/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:55 extlinux
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  19M ott 17 19:38 initrd.img-4.18.0-kali2-armmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  20M feb 11 11:52 initrd.img-4.19.0-kali1-armmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3,0M ott  9 14:47 System.map-4.18.0-kali2-armmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3,0M gen  3 08:34 System.map-4.19.0-kali1-armmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4,0M ott  9 14:47 vmlinuz-4.18.0-kali2-armmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4,1M gen  3 08:34 vmlinuz-4.19.0-kali1-armmp
root@kali:/boot# ll ./extlinux/
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K feb 11 11:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  267 feb 11 11:55 extlinux.conf
root@kali:/boot# 

Now edit extlinux.conf accordingly with these settings:

root@kali:~# cat /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf 
PROMPT 5
TIMEOUT 50
DEFAULT Kali

LABEL Kali
KERNEL /vmlinuz
FDTDIR /boot/dtbs/
INITRD /initrd.img
APPEND root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootfstype=ext4 video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 console=ttymxc0,115200n8 console=tty1 consoleblank=0 rw rootwait

Note that, starting from Kernel 4.9, the partition naming convention changed, first device is mmcblk1 and not mmcblk0. As the downloaded Kali image has only one partition, you need to use /dev/mmcblk1p1 device.

fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 14,9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Disk model: SD Card Reader  
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x38f6e81f

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 31115263 31113216 14,9G 83 Linux

That's all. Now U-Boot should be fixed and able to boot your kernel.

U-Boot SPL 2018.05+dfsg-1 (May 10 2018 - 20:24:57 +0000)
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2018.05+dfsg-1 (May 10 2018 - 20:24:57 +0000)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 996 MHz (running at 792 MHz)
CPU:   Extended Commercial temperature grade (-20C to 105C) at 19C
Reset cause: POR
Board: MX6 Cubox-i
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Failed (-5)
No panel detected: default to HDMI
Display: HDMI (1024x768)
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   FEC
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
267 bytes read in 114 ms (2 KiB/s)
1:	Kali
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../../initrd.img
20026342 bytes read in 1220 ms (15.7 MiB/s)
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../../vmlinuz
4203008 bytes read in 479 ms (8.4 MiB/s)
append: root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootfstype=ext4 video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 console=ttymxc0,115200n8 console=tty1 consoleblank=0 rw rootwait
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../dtbs/imx6q-cubox-i.dtb
36853 bytes read in 2755 ms (12.7 KiB/s)
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 18000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x18000000
   Using Device Tree in place at 18000000, end 1800bff4

Starting kernel ...

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.0-kali1-armmp ([email protected]) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Debian 8.2.0-13)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.13-1kali1 (2019-01-03)
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [412fc09a] revision 10 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: SolidRun Cubox-i Dual/Quad
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT:
[    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 16 MiB at 0x8f000000
[    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0xa0/0x504 with crng_init=0
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 17 pages/cpu @(ptrval) s39116 r8192 d22324 u69632
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 522560
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootfstype=ext4 video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080M@60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 console=ttymxc0,115200n8 console=tty1 consoleblank=0 rw rootwait
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 2025800K/2097152K available (8192K kernel code, 1107K rwdata, 2552K rodata, 2048K init, 306K bss, 54968K reserved, 16384K cma-reserved, 1294336K highmem)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xf0800000 - 0xff800000   ( 240 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf0000000   ( 768 MB)
[    0.000000]     pkmap   : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000   (   2 MB)
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000   (  14 MB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   (9184 kB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   (2048 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   (1108 kB)
[    0.000000]        .bss : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   ( 307 kB)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] ftrace: allocating 32449 entries in 96 pages
[    0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] rcu: 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=8 to nr_cpu_ids=4.
[    0.000000] rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=4
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] L2C-310 errata 752271 769419 enabled
[    0.000000] L2C-310 enabling early BRESP for Cortex-A9
[    0.000000] L2C-310 full line of zeros enabled for Cortex-A9
[    0.000000] L2C-310 ID prefetch enabled, offset 16 lines
[    0.000000] L2C-310 dynamic clock gating enabled, standby mode enabled
[    0.000000] L2C-310 cache controller enabled, 16 ways, 1024 kB
[    0.000000] L2C-310: CACHE_ID 0x410000c7, AUX_CTRL 0x76470001
[    0.000000] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 333ns
[    0.000007] sched_clock: 32 bits at 3000kHz, resolution 333ns, wraps every 715827882841ns
[    0.000029] clocksource: mxc_timer1: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 637086815595 ns
[    0.002450] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.002911] console [tty1] enabled
[    0.002962] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=12000)
[    0.002997] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.003303] Security Framework initialized
[    0.003354] Yama: disabled by default; enable with sysctl kernel.yama.*
[    0.003456] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[    0.003587] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.003621] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.004664] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.004713] CPU0: Spectre v2: using BPIALL workaround
[    0.005153] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.005959] Setting up static identity map for 0x10300000 - 0x103000a0
[    0.007468] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[    0.011385] EFI services will not be available.
[    0.011904] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.012834] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[    0.012842] CPU1: Spectre v2: using BPIALL workaround
[    0.013856] CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 0, mpidr 80000002
[    0.013863] CPU2: Spectre v2: using BPIALL workaround
[    0.014869] CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 0, mpidr 80000003
[    0.014878] CPU3: Spectre v2: using BPIALL workaround
[    0.015031] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[    0.015056] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (24.00 BogoMIPS).
[    0.015074] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[    0.016528] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.025641] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4
[    0.025992] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
[    0.026032] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.027375] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.028868] DMI not present or invalid.
[    0.029317] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.033089] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.033965] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.034242] audit: type=2000 audit(0.032:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[    0.035939] CPU identified as i.MX6Q, silicon rev 1.2
[    0.056010] No ATAGs?
[    0.056179] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[    0.056220] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[    0.057982] imx6q-pinctrl 20e0000.iomuxc: initialized IMX pinctrl driver
[    0.058770] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[    0.081508] mxs-dma 110000.dma-apbh: initialized
[    0.083880] v_usb2: supplied by v_5v0
[    0.084147] vcc_3v3: supplied by v_5v0
[    0.084412] v_usb1: supplied by v_5v0
[    0.087824] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.089174] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[    0.089232] videodev: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    0.089300] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[    0.089322] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <[email protected]>
[    0.089361] PTP clock support registered
[    0.091199] clocksource: Switched to clocksource mxc_timer1
[    0.170784] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.170921] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.171676] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[    0.184673] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.185646] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes)
[    0.185706] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.185812] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.185981] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.186238] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.186300] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.186589] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.187128] Unpacking initramfs...
[    1.822024] Freeing initrd memory: 19560K
[    1.822709] hw perfevents: no interrupt-affinity property for /pmu, guessing.
[    1.823063] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    1.826095] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    1.826400] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=19 bucket_order=5
[    1.833640] zbud: loaded
[    6.621158] Key type asymmetric registered
[    6.621192] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[    6.621275] bounce: pool size: 64 pages
[    6.621357] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 248)
[    6.621575] io scheduler noop registered
[    6.621597] io scheduler deadline registered
[    6.621849] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    6.621871] io scheduler mq-deadline registered
[    6.636572] imx-sdma 20ec000.sdma: firmware: failed to load imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin (-2)
[    6.636604] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[    6.636636] imx-sdma 20ec000.sdma: Direct firmware load for imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin failed with error -2
[    6.641836] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.0: DMA mask not set
[    6.641921] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.0: Linked as a consumer to 20dc000.gpc
[    6.641999] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.1: DMA mask not set
[    6.644727] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    6.647473] Serial: AMBA driver
[    6.648404] 2020000.serial: ttymxc0 at MMIO 0x2020000 (irq = 26, base_baud = 5000000) is a IMX
[    7.412939] console [ttymxc0] enabled
[    7.417932] 21f0000.serial: ttymxc3 at MMIO 0x21f0000 (irq = 66, base_baud = 5000000) is a IMX
[    7.430698] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    7.435760] fec 2188000.ethernet: 2188000.ethernet supply phy not found, using dummy regulator
[    7.444505] fec 2188000.ethernet: Linked as a consumer to regulator.0
[    7.454609] pps pps0: new PPS source ptp0
[    7.472545] libphy: fec_enet_mii_bus: probed
[    7.477455] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: registered PHC device 0
[    7.484318] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    7.492641] snvs_rtc 20cc000.snvs:snvs-rtc-lp: rtc core: registered 20cc000.snvs:snvs-rtc-lp as rtc0
[    7.505875] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[    7.514034] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    7.544056] Segment Routing with IPv6
[    7.547877] mip6: Mobile IPv6
[    7.550868] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    7.555362] mpls_gso: MPLS GSO support
[    7.559621] ThumbEE CPU extension supported.
[    7.563941] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    7.569571] registered taskstats version 1
[    7.573724] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[    8.001824] Loaded X.509 cert 'secure-boot-test-key-lfaraone: 97c1b25cddf9873ca78a58f3d73bf727d2cf78ff'
[    8.011399] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud
[    8.016135] AppArmor: AppArmor sha1 policy hashing enabled
[    8.043332] input: gpio-keys as /devices/soc0/gpio-keys/input/input0
[    8.050476] snvs_rtc 20cc000.snvs:snvs-rtc-lp: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (0)
[    8.059503] sr_init: No PMIC hook to init smartreflex
[    8.065540] brcm_reg: disabling
[    8.068731] v_usb2: disabling
[    8.071738] v_usb1: disabling
[    8.091956] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2048K
[    8.103524] Run /init as init process
[    8.674401] vdd1p1: supplied by regulator-dummy
[    8.683877] vdd3p0: supplied by regulator-dummy
[    8.696602] vdd2p5: supplied by regulator-dummy
[    8.704227] vddarm: supplied by regulator-dummy
[    8.717686] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    8.718779] i2c i2c-1: IMX I2C adapter registered
[    8.723983] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    8.731604] i2c i2c-1: can't use DMA, using PIO instead.
[    8.742702] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    8.742793] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    8.744626] vddpu: supplied by regulator-dummy
[    8.745481] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.1: Linked as a consumer to regulator.10
[    8.745595] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.1: Linked as a consumer to 20dc000.gpc
[    8.745890] vddsoc: supplied by regulator-dummy
[    8.752088] sdhci-esdhc-imx 2190000.usdhc: allocated mmc-pwrseq
[    8.756034] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    8.763812] sdhci-esdhc-imx 2190000.usdhc: Linked as a consumer to regulator.2
[    8.763929] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    8.766600] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    8.787503] rtc-pcf8523 2-0068: rtc core: registered rtc-pcf8523 as rtc1
[    8.796044] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: fsl,transmit-level-mV value 1104, using 00000044
[    8.798351] i2c i2c-2: IMX I2C adapter registered
[    8.801051] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: fsl,transmit-boost-mdB value 0, using 00000000
[    8.801481] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    8.807283] i2c i2c-2: can't use DMA, using PIO instead.
[    8.809805] imx_usb 2184000.usb: Linked as a consumer to regulator.5
[    8.812940] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: fsl,transmit-atten-16ths value 9, using 00002000
[    8.812952] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: fsl,receive-eq-mdB not specified, using 05000000
[    8.868067] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.0: EHCI Host Controller
[    8.870498] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: SSS flag set, parallel bus scan disabled
[    8.873075] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    8.880090] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl platform mode
[    8.896015] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: flags: ncq sntf stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst 
[    8.906799] scsi host0: ahci-imx
[    8.907234] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    8.911034] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem 0x02200000-0x02203fff] port 0x100 irq 69
[    8.915842] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 4.19
[    8.931867] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    8.939144] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[    8.944065] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.19.0-kali1-armmp ehci_hcd
[    8.950543] usb usb1: SerialNumber: ci_hdrc.0
[    8.955839] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    8.959699] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    8.964941] imx_usb 2184200.usb: Linked as a consumer to regulator.4
[    8.975338] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: EHCI Host Controller
[    8.980298] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[    9.003239] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    9.008943] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 4.19
[    9.017268] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    9.024541] usb usb2: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[    9.029458] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 4.19.0-kali1-armmp ehci_hcd
[    9.035939] usb usb2: SerialNumber: ci_hdrc.1
[    9.041101] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    9.044948] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    9.107896] mmc0: SDHCI controller on 2190000.usdhc [2190000.usdhc] using ADMA
[    9.117185] sdhci-esdhc-imx 2194000.usdhc: Got CD GPIO
[    9.122559] sdhci-esdhc-imx 2194000.usdhc: Linked as a consumer to regulator.1
[    9.157220] mmc0: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (50 bytes)
[    9.163693] mmc1: SDHCI controller on 2194000.usdhc [2194000.usdhc] using ADMA
[    9.183174] mmc0: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (7 bytes)
[    9.191609] mmc0: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (4 bytes)
[    9.211322] random: fast init done
[    9.224126] mmc1: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[    9.240939] mmc1: new high speed SDHC card at address aaaa
[    9.245854] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    9.249128] mmc0: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x02 (1 bytes)
[    9.251988] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: no device found, disabling link.
[    9.258217] mmcblk1: mmc1:aaaa SC16G 14.8 GiB 
[    9.263773] ahci-imx 2200000.sata: pass .hotplug=1 to enable hotplug
[    9.285255] mmc0: new SDIO card at address 0001
[    9.294093]  mmcblk1: p1
[    9.590133] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   10.331270] systemd[1]: System time before build time, advancing clock.
[   10.410380] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4'
[   10.477486] systemd[1]: systemd 240 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid)
[   10.499686] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm.
[   10.532504] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <kali>.
[   11.143992] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)
[   11.169989] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)
[   11.177217] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[   11.185774] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)
[   11.192813] systemd[1]: Listening on initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[   11.205244] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
[   11.212034] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Audit Socket.
[   11.219580] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice.
[   11.225807] systemd[1]: Reached target Slices.
[   11.231852] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[   11.644705] systemd-journald[174]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[   11.715275] systemd-journald[174]: File /var/log/journal/1669a518f9704310aef53c26dee3d53f/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
[   13.195395] cpu cpu0: Linked as a consumer to regulator.9
[   13.202118] cpu cpu0: Linked as a consumer to regulator.10
[   13.212353] leds_pwm pwmleds: unable to request PWM for imx6:red:front: -517
[   13.229703] Registered IR keymap rc-empty
[   13.230963] cpu cpu0: Linked as a consumer to regulator.11
[   13.239476] rc rc0: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/soc0/ir-receiver/rc/rc0
[   13.247800] input: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/soc0/ir-receiver/rc/rc0/input1
[   13.291628] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver gpio_ir_recv registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter
[   13.292420] leds_pwm pwmleds: unable to request PWM for imx6:red:front: -517
[   13.368979] leds_pwm pwmleds: unable to request PWM for imx6:red:front: -517
[   13.447837] imx2-wdt 20bc000.wdog: timeout 60 sec (nowayout=0)
[   13.466369] etnaviv etnaviv: bound 130000.gpu (ops gpu_ops [etnaviv])
[   13.495507] imx-ipuv3 2400000.ipu: IPUv3H probed
[   13.505100] etnaviv etnaviv: bound 134000.gpu (ops gpu_ops [etnaviv])
[   13.515092] imx-ipuv3 2800000.ipu: IPUv3H probed
[   13.528373] etnaviv etnaviv: bound 2204000.gpu (ops gpu_ops [etnaviv])
[   13.535094] etnaviv-gpu 130000.gpu: model: GC2000, revision: 5108
[   13.591018] etnaviv-gpu 134000.gpu: model: GC320, revision: 5007
[   13.690303] etnaviv-gpu 2204000.gpu: model: GC355, revision: 1215
[   13.696497] etnaviv-gpu 2204000.gpu: Ignoring GPU with VG and FE2.0
[   13.723715] [drm] Initialized etnaviv 1.2.0 20151214 for etnaviv on minor 0
[   13.732615] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[   13.739343] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[   13.750344] imx-drm display-subsystem: bound imx-ipuv3-crtc.2 (ops ipu_crtc_ops [imxdrm])
[   13.758969] imx-drm display-subsystem: bound imx-ipuv3-crtc.3 (ops ipu_crtc_ops [imxdrm])
[   13.794123] imx-drm display-subsystem: bound imx-ipuv3-crtc.6 (ops ipu_crtc_ops [imxdrm])
[   13.824654] imx-drm display-subsystem: bound imx-ipuv3-crtc.7 (ops ipu_crtc_ops [imxdrm])
[   13.887633] imx-spdif sound-spdif: snd-soc-dummy-dai <-> 2004000.spdif mapping ok
[   13.895250] imx-spdif sound-spdif: ASoC: no DMI vendor name!
[   13.910615] dwhdmi-imx 120000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v1.30a with HDCP (DWC HDMI 3D TX PHY)
[   13.960699] imx-drm display-subsystem: bound 120000.hdmi (ops dw_hdmi_imx_platform_driver_exit [dw_hdmi_imx])
[   13.982623] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   14.009662] [drm] Initialized imx-drm 1.0.0 20120507 for display-subsystem on minor 1
[   14.236656] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4329-sdio for chip BCM4329/3
[   14.258745] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[   14.323949] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin
[   14.346226] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac4329-sdio.txt
[   14.465318] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4329-sdio for chip BCM4329/3
[   14.475922] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac4329-sdio.clm_blob (-2)
[   14.484716] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4329-sdio.clm_blob failed with error -2
[   14.494898] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
[   14.551518] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4329/3 wl0: Sep  2 2011 14:48:19 version 4.220.48
[   14.594871] brcmfmac: brcmf_setup_wiphybands: rxchain error (-52)
[   14.706815] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   14.710651] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   14.715230] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   14.722069] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   14.727404] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   14.733014] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   14.760303] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth SDIO driver ver 0.1
[   15.011475] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   15.050996] random: crng init done
[   15.054429] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[   16.793010] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   16.887242] rc rc0: two consecutive events of type space
[   16.934160] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   16.942551] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, -52
[   16.956655] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, -52
[   17.551975] Atheros 8035 ethernet 2188000.ethernet-1:00: attached PHY driver [Atheros 8035 ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=2188000.ethernet-1:00, irq=POLL)
[   17.570856] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   17.579170] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, -52
[   17.835444] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Kali GNU/Linux Rolling kali ttymxc0

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Thanks to Steev for the late night support and, obviously, Offensive Security.