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

[John Crispin]

Hi,

do a "cat /tmp/sysinfo/*" on the unit please ...

	John

On 19/07/2014 20:52, 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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