[OpenWrt-Devel] [BUG] NAND sysupgrade broke ubifs on Netgear WNDR3700v4/4300.

[John Crispin]

hi,

i pushed a patch in the hope that it will work. please test current
trunk and tell if the problem is solved.

	John

On 20/07/2014 17:56, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry your email got lost somehow on my end... And the machine
> hosting mailing list is down at the moment it seems.
> 
> here is the info:
> 
> root at router:~# cat /tmp/sysinfo/* wndr4300 NETGEAR
> WNDR3700v4/WNDR4300
> 
> 
> thanks, -paul
> 
> On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 14:52 -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>> John,
>> 
>> any update on this issue? i strongly believe that the hard-coded 
>> wndr4300 string somewhere in the source is the culprit of the
>> problem since the wndr3700v4 board_detection is identified as
>> wndr4300 thus the sysupgrade works for 4300 but not for 3700v4.
>> 
>> Regards, -paul
>> 
>> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 23:15 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 24/06/2014 22:43, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>>>> i get "The uploaded image file does not contain a supported
>>>> format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format
>>>> for your platform." from web interface.
>>>> 
>>>> this is what i have:
>>>> 
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 diffie diffie 8919040 2014-06-24 15:58 
>>>> bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-nand-wndr3700v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
should i push it from shell using sysupgrade script?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> it will work from shell, i will look into why it fails via
>>> webui.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 22:32 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 24/06/2014 22:25, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks for the tftp fix, flushing just became so much
>>>>>> faster and easier.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Tested trunk r41336 after your jffs2 fix and the image
>>>>>> boots fine, restored my configuration changes, rebooted
>>>>>> the router and all changes are saved now. I will post the
>>>>>> working dmesg to the ticket at
>>>>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16840 but it is safe to
>>>>>> say that you can close it ;-) now.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sysupgrade image(s) for 3700v4 and 4300 do not work now,
>>>>>> guess this is next on the list...
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> i tested 4300 and it works. you need to use the 
>>>>> *-ubi-sysupgrade.tar file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you, -paul
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 20:18 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 24/06/2014 19:05, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>>>>>>>> John,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Yes i use the reset with pin and from there i tftp
>>>>>>>> the original firmware from netgear after that i go to
>>>>>>>> the gui and upload the open-wrt image because the
>>>>>>>> router will not accept the wndr3700v4 image (there's
>>>>>>>> a cosmetic fix for that, i created a patch that
>>>>>>>> someone from the forums has sent months ago to this
>>>>>>>> list but it was never accepted...) 
>>>>>>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16840
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> With that patch tftp'ing the 
>>>>>>>> openwrt-ar71xx-nand-wndr3700v4-ubi-factory.img works 
>>>>>>>> without need to flash the original firmware.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If there's another method that can be used to flash
>>>>>>>> the image(s) please let me know i would want to try
>>>>>>>> any alternative ways of flashing and could learn a
>>>>>>>> thing or two in the process as well ;-)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thank you, -paul
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> i just pushed the V vs v fix and another fix that
>>>>>>> removes the jffs2 magic. i think this might have been
>>>>>>> the cause of the problems. please retry with current
>>>>>>> trunk and let me know if the problem is gone or still
>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>> 
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