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

[John Crispin]

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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