ath79 / TP-Link CPE510 / tftp: recovery.bin

Bastian Bittorf bb at npl.de
Fri Nov 12 00:09:52 PST 2021


After flashing trunk to some devices, i'am affected
from the lzma-loader/GCC11 issue. It was possible in
the past to use the standard recovery procedure, but
it seems NOT possible anymore, maybe because of
the changed partition layout?

The bootloader says:
Incorrect File.
Writting error.

Anyway: does somebody know how to access the bootloader?
The password 'admin' or 'tpl' is not accepted and
images are also not accepted.

I'am happy for any hint - thanks a lot,
bye, bastian!


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TP-LINK SafeLoader (Build time: Jun 12 2015 - 09:49:53)
CPU: 560MHz AHB: 225MHz DDR: 64MB
Performing LED check..  PASS
Press CTRL+B to enter SafeLoader: 1
Flash Manufacturer: Unknown(0xc8)
Flash Device ID: Unknown(0x4017)
Data flash init failed.
open user-config failed.
open user-config failed.
Error: Kernel did not takeover charge of WatchDog last time!

enet0 port4 up

TFTP server address is 192.168.0.100; our address is 192.168.0.254
Get filename 'recovery.bin'.
#################################################################
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Done.
Bytes transferred = 5204617, 1373 Kbytes/sec
Incorrect File.
Writting error.
Allocated memory for elf segment ok: addr: 0x80060000, size 0x16cc
Loading .text @ 0x80060000 (5836 bytes)

Starting kernel



OpenWrt kernel loader for AR7XXX/AR9XXX
Copyright (C) 2011 Gabor Juhos <juhosg at openwrt.org>
Looking for OpenWrt image... found at 0xbf043000
Decompressing kernel... 

(hangs here)



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